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For St. Patrick's Day, the greening of Carole
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Mar 17, 2018
This is as close as I could find of an actual color photo of Carole Lombard clad in green (in honor of St. Patrick's Day, of course). It's an image from the April 1936 issue of Photoplay, with the fan magazine proudly touting its new, full-color photography. The shot, taken by James Doolittle, captu read more
On Long Island? Tonight, celebrate those 'Slapstick Divas'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Mar 14, 2018
Carole Lombard, lovely and leggy during her Mack Sennett period, learned plenty from the master of silent comedy -- even though by the time she joined his troupe in 1927, his slapstick style was on the wane. But she had probably accumulated much of her comic knowledge from watching other practitione read more
Take your woman to 'I Take This Woman' at the TCMFF
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Mar 11, 2018
Somewhere, this bit of Carole Lombard news has Robert Osborne smiling.The longtime host of Turner Classic Movies and film historian would be thrilled to learn that "I Take This Woman," the relatively rare 1931 Lombard-Gary Cooper collaboration whose 35mm restoration premiered at UCLA early last Marc read more
Happy International Women's Day!
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Mar 8, 2018
Carole Lombard -- who during and after her brief lifetime symbolized feminine power as an actress, businesswoman and person -- no doubt would be a major supporter of International Women's Day. It's hard to believe that the skills and talents of half the global population isn't fully utilized, for al read more
Table tennis, anyone?
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Mar 5, 2018
Carole Lombard's fondness for tennis is well-known, but I have no idea whether she ever played table tennis, a version of the lawn sport created in Victorian England as an after-dinner parlor game. It gradually gained popularity in the States, and there's a scene showing characters playing the sport read more
On honeymoon, in jail or in a swimsuit? Take your pick
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Mar 2, 2018
It's late June 1931, and Carole Lombard and new beau Bill Powell pose at the side of a ship for a Paramount photographer before the movie couple set sail for a Honolulu honeymoon. Lombard fell ill while in Hawaii, in retrospect a signal that there would be hidden turmoil in this marriage...though th read more
In the cards for Carole, schoolgirl style
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Feb 28, 2018
Carole Lombard was no stranger to appearing on cards, especially if the country issuing them was outside the U.S. Take the pic above, for example, part of the acclaimed Garbaty tobacco card series made in Germany a few years after the Nazis came to power (http://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/205341. read more
Picture these pre-Code stills
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Feb 27, 2018
Now that my home Internet service is fully restored, I again can daily display some Carole Lombard goodies found at eBay. Tonight, I found two original film stills of Lombard, both from the pre-Code era.First, above, is from "Brief Moment," a relatively overlooked 1933 Columbia film derived from a s read more
Carole's going to Stanford (the theatre, not the school)
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Feb 26, 2018
Note the University of Southern California decal on the car Carole Lombard is posed with on the December 1938 cover of Picture Play magazine. We bring this up because in at least one Lombard biography -- was it "Screwball" by Larry Swindell? -- it was noted Carole helped present a trophy to the winn read more
'Where's he been?' Here's my answer
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Feb 9, 2018
I feel jailed, like Carole Lombard's Helen Bartlett character in "True Confession." The reason? My laptop's screen went dark last Sunday, and since then my computer use has been limited to a 3G smartphone and a public desktop. Until I get my laptop fixed, no "Carole & Co." entries.Hope to get all of read more
A happy 104th to a Paramount cohort
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Feb 3, 2018
Not many people around today can say they knew Carole Lombard, but one who does turns 104 today.Congratulations to Mary Carlisle, whom I believe is the last of the WAMPAS "baby stars" still with us (1932). The following year, she was Bing Crosby's leading lady in "College Humor" at Paramount (where read more
'Motion Picture,' November 1930: Meet the 'Three-In-One Girl'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Feb 2, 2018
In the fall of 1930, Carol(e) Lombard (about this time, the "e" in her first name was reinstated for good) was hardly an unknown to many motion picture fans, but no matter which way you spelled it, she was hardly a household name. So both she and Paramount addressed this with a publicity campaign.Wh read more
Five minutes with Carole: What would you ask?
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Feb 1, 2018
Someone at a Carole Lombard Facebook brought up this hypothetical situation yesterday:"OK, so... an angel of the Lord comes down and tells you that you can have five minutes with Carole Lombard and ask her anything you want or talk to her about anything you want. What would you ask her or what would read more
Tune in for Lombard
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jan 31, 2018
We primarily think of movies when it comes to Carole Lombard... but don't forget that, like many film stars, she dabbled in radio -- especially beginning in the mid-1930s, when lower costs of transcontinental hookups made Los Angeles (and by that I mean "Hollywood," as in the motion-picture industry read more
Press-ing a 'Golden Age'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jan 30, 2018
As 1957 turned into 1958. Carole Lombard found her way back to theaters, roughly 16 years after her death. For that, thank Robert Youngson and his silent comedy compilation "The Golden Age of Comedy," where he collected several two-reelers (such as Lombard's "Run, Girl, Run" from Mack Sennett).Young read more
Part of a complete, balanced 'Breakfast'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jan 29, 2018
"Love Before Breakfast" is one of those Carole Lombard films where her talent for comedy, unleashed to the world in 1934's "Twentieth Century" and confirmed in the following year's "Hands Across the Table," is on full display -- but it's evident that the rest of the world hadn't yet caught up to her read more
Need large Lombard pix? This 'Doctor' has your prescription
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jan 28, 2018
I'm not sure when the above Carole Lombard picture was taken -- I'm guessing it was the mid-1930s -- but if you'd like to know where you can find large, attractive images of Carole, check out the site where I got this from.It's called "Dr. Macro's High Quality Movie Scans," and it specializes in "ve read more
A blonde goddess in silver gelatin
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jan 27, 2018
I'm certain that sometime in the past, we've noted the existence of this remarkable Carole Lombard portrait, where she literally keeps it under her hat -- man-style millinery Carole carries off quite well. It's Paramount p1202-1620.Who took it? Staff photographer William Walling. We know because it' read more
Happy Australia Day (well, it still is here)
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jan 26, 2018
To the many Carole Lombard fans in Australia, I know I'm too late, given the International Dateline and all that. But here in the U.S., it's still Jan. 26 as I write this.Lombard, of course, never visited Australia, but her films were popular there. On Jan. 31, 1942, some 15 days after her passing, read more
Lombard, Transylvania style
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jan 25, 2018
What, you're thinking? Did Carole Lombard secretly make another horror film along the lines of 1933's "Supernatural" (shown above)?Nope. While this entry has a connection to Transylvania, it's the real-life, modern-day section of Romania...sorry, no vampires or other monsters. And it's about some vi read more