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Shanghai semi-surprise
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 16, 2018
Considering the popularity of "Swing High, Swing Low" -- this Carole Lombard-Fred MacMurray collaboration was Paramount's biggest money-maker for all of 1937 -- it's strange that no complete 35 mm print of the film exists. But that's another story for another time.In the 1930s, Hollywood product ha read more
The Times, it is a-movin'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 15, 2018
This still of Carole Lombard is from the only time she ever played a newspaper reporter on screen, the 1929 Pathe film "Big News." (She also played a journalist in the 1941 Silver Theater radio production "Murder, Unlimited,")While Carole never played a reporter as iconic as Rosalind Russell in "His read more
Carole with a Cuban flair
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 14, 2018
In January 1935, Carole Lombard and friend Madalynne Field went east for a vacation; this pic shows Lombard at the Biltmore Country Club in Miami. After Florida, they journeyed to nearby Cuba, roughly a quarter-century before Fidel Castro's revolution (https://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/152746.ht read more
Go 'Gay [Bride]' in a brand new way
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 13, 2018
Last week, we noted the Carole Lombard 1934 MGM comedy "The Gay Bride" had just been issued on Warner Archive (https://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/895254.html). This version has already found its way to eBay for auction.Listed as "brand new" by the seller (in other words, still sealed), one bid al read more
'Advertise'-ing a Lombard lobby card
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 12, 2018
"It Pays To Advertise" was the first of five Carole Lombard films released at Paramount during the first half of 1931. Also with Lombard are Norman Foster, Skeets Gallagher and Eugene Pallette, five years before he would play the father of Carole's character in "My Man Godfrey." Even late-silent ico read more
Carole + canines, felines, etc.: It's #NationalPetDay!
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 11, 2018
Were Carole Lombard here today, I'm certain she'd celebrate #NationalPetDay, a day when we honor our furry friends. It doesn't matter whether you're a dog or cat person -- or the not-so-rare breed who enjoys them equally -- or are into anything from rabbits to iguanas. Pets provide peace of mind, co read more
An early obituary: L.A. Times, Jan. 18, 1942
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 10, 2018
Slightly more than 24 hours after this photo of Carole Lombard singing the national anthem at Cadle Tabernacle in Indianapolis was taken on Jan. 15, 1942, she would be dead from a plane crash. Coming only 40 days after the attack on Pearl Harbor thrust the U.S. into World War II, her passing stunned read more
The leggy Lombard, in the swim
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 9, 2018
We had a brief heat wave in Los Angeles today; about four hours ago along Vermont Avenue near Wilshire, I saw temperature readings of 96 and 97 Fahrenheit. (Things are expected to cool off sometime tomorrow.) I'm sure Carole Lombard would do some sunning under such conditions -- and with the way she read more
A document with the Lombard Factor
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 8, 2018
Like so many in the film industry, Carole Lombard owed a lot to Max Factor, whose work in cosmetics for movies aided scores of actors. And as his company expanded into products for the general public, Lombard was among the stars who helped promote them.A document from July 13, 1932 has surfaced whe read more
Lombard on Long Island
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 7, 2018
Carole Lombard is shown with Frank Morgan in the 1930 comedy "Fast And Loose" -- her only film shot in New York (at the Paramount Astoria studios in Queens). Carole was a favorite of Big Apple audiences...and we're not referring solely to Manhattan. Here's plenty of proof.Five mid-1930s theater prog read more
'Modern Screen,' March 1938: Carry on, Carole
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 6, 2018
Perhaps no film did more damage to Carole Lombard's career than "Fools For Scandal." The Warners comedy, which was released in April 1938 following her late '37 triumphs in "True Confession" and "Nothing Sacred," not only burst her bubble as the hottest star in the industry, but shifted her out of c read more
Here comes 'The Gay Bride'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 5, 2018
It was Carole Lombard's visit to Hollywood's big-time (OK, so it actually was in Culver City). But Carole -- pictured between director Jack Conway (left) and leading man Chester Morris -- would later label this her worst movie.We are referring to "The Gay Bride," made for MGM in late 1934 and now av read more
Now we know when, and where, that 'Woman' will be
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 4, 2018
Not long ago, we learned Carole Lombard's little-seen 1931 drama "I Take This Woman" with Gary Cooper would be part of the annual Turner Classic Movies Film Festival later this month (https://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/892561.html). Today, we discovered its spot in the program.According to the sc read more
Who was she with, and where is this from?
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 3, 2018
I hope I'm not boastful when I say that after nearly 11 years of running this site and a few prior decades of Carole Lombard, I consider myself somewhat expert on the woman, her life and her movies. Does that mean I bat 1.000? Hardly.Take the photo above, for instance. It's almost certainly a movie read more
'Intriguing,' all right...and expensive
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 2, 2018
Carole Lombard may have shown more skin at Pathe than she later would in her pre-Code days at Paramount, but at either place she exuded plenty of sex appeal. Witness:That's Paramount p1202-517, an image we ran several years ago. But I don't believe we then had the snipe on the back. Now we do.Intrig read more
An Easter reminder (no foolin'): Some bunny loves you
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 1, 2018
This is as close as I could find to an Easter-related Carole Lombard photo, though I have no idea whether this was its original intent. It's Lombard, leaning atop a portrait of a rabbit, taken by John Engstead. Carole's industry clout, and perhaps her own innate good taste, enabled her to avoid the read more
Drawing on Carole and Fred
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Mar 29, 2018
When Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray proved a potent box-office pair in "Hands Across the Table," Paramount naturally decided to team them again. After George Raft angrily withdrew from Lombard's next film, initially to be called "Concertina" (https://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/166158.html), Ma read more
More on the meme, and on 'Mom'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Mar 26, 2018
Last Friday's entry featured two memes noting Carole Lombard as a superior role model to the notorious Kardashian family (https://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/893458.html). The meme above was also posted at my Facebook site. And it went over big.As of this evening, it had received 127 "likes" and 3 read more
A Lombard twist to a meme 'In a world'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Mar 23, 2018
Carole Lombard's celebrity resonates with millions more than three-quarters of a century after her premature death. She wasn't famous merely for being famous, but because of her skills at work (a talented actress and arguably the person most identified with the genre known as "screwball comedy") and read more
S'more from Mr. Smoots
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Mar 20, 2018
Nearly two months ago, we ran a photo of Carole Lombard from the extensive stills collection of the late George Smoots (https://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/887597.html). Above is another one now publicized (and available) via eBay, and from an imprint on the back, we discover it was taken by Eugen read more