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An Oscar winner's tragic end
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jan 4, 2018
A Carole Lombard trivia question: Which Academy Award winners did she co-star with? The catch is this: They already had to have won the award at the time they appeared on screen with Carole, so Clark Gable, James Stewart and Paul Lukas don't count. (Lukas won his Oscar for 1943's "Watch on the Rhine read more
Add yet another to the list of Lombard books
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jan 3, 2018
Above is a poster from 1932's "Virtue," the first of five films Carole Lombard would make for Columbia and arguably her best performance until another Columbia release two years later, "Twentieth Century."We bring this up because today I discovered that nearly a year ago, a book has been out profili read more
Negligees, pre- and post-Code
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jan 2, 2018
Carole Lombard was a favorite subject of Paramount designer Travis Banton, and he frequently used her to popularize the glamour of the negligee, as she did in this 1934 photo. Two other examples of Lombard in negligees now are available at eBay.First, this pic from 1933, Paramount p1202-517 (love th read more
Press-ing for a 'Confession'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jan 1, 2018
As fate would have it, the first Carole & Co. entry of 2018 deals with the final movie I saw in 2017, Carole Lombard in "True Confession." (Carole is shown with leading man Fred MacMurray and her character's best friend, Una Merkel, who may or may not be faking her faint.)"True Confession" has nearl read more
Summing up '17
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 31, 2017
Last night, I watched the Carole Lombard films "Twentieth Century" (top) and "True Confession" at the Aero Theater in Santa Monica, with a few over 100 fellow spectators. "Century" was in the same 4K DCP restoration seen earlier this year at the TCM Classic Film Festival, while "Confession" was in a read more
Ringing out the old, classic Hollywood style
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 30, 2017
It's supposed to be New York City on New Year's Eve as 1938 turns into 1939...but actually, it's Culver City, Calif., a few months earlier, as Carole Lombard and James Stewart are filming a party scene at Selznick International Studios in "Made For Each Other."If you're currently in New York or much read more
A trio of 'Brief Moment(s)'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 29, 2017
Is "Brief Moment," from the fall of 1933, the least-known of Carole Lombard's five Columbia films? Perhaps. But this drama co-starring Gene Raymond, adapted from a Broadway play, has some things going for it -- among them a solid script and decent performances by both leads.Now, eBay has three still read more
Lombard, Barrymore visit Santa Monica, and RIP Rose Marie
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 28, 2017
Carole Lombard's cinematic relationship with John Barrymore has elements of "What Price Hollywood?" or "A Star Is Born." While Lombard hardly was unknown in early 1934 when she co-starred with Barrymore in "Twentieth Century" (top), she had yet to establish a consistent screen identity and was bette read more
A cosmic Carole...in a Harlow style?
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 27, 2017
For a brief spell in the early 1930s, Carole Lombard appeared to be emulating Jean Harlow by making her hair as platinum as possible. (You could argue that peek-a-boo hairstyle was predicting the rise of Veronica Lake, who would gain stardom at the end of the decade.) Now, there's another link of so read more
The man who found the 'Godfrey' gown
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 26, 2017
Today, I discovered someone at Facebook's Turner Classic Movies Fan Site asked members, "What is your all-time favorite dress from a classic movie?" Many famed costumes received votes -- Vivien Leigh's outfits in "Gone With the Wind," Rita Hayworth's black gown in "Gilda," and so on. Among those wit read more
A Christmas Carole & Co., part 2: The sights
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 25, 2017
I'm guessing the photo above, showing Carole Lombard with fellow Mack Sennett stars Billy Bevan and Ruth Hiatt, was taken for Christmas publicity in 1927. Ninety years later, here we are, celebrating the season. Hope your Christmas is a good one. This is my fourth holiday in Los Angeles, and after n read more
A Christmas Carole & Co., part 1: The stars
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 24, 2017
For most of you in the U.S., the sun has set on Christmas Eve and nighttime has arrived. Carole Lombard celebrates the season with Gary Cooper in this charming photo from 1931's "I Take This Woman" (https://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/859635.html), and for today and tomorrow, we'll do so, too.This read more
With a pop for publicity
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 23, 2017
When asked about "Marriage in Transit" -- her 1925 Fox feature with Edmund Lowe -- in later years, Carole Lombard criticized her performance as overemotional. (Alas, we can't make our own evaluation, since the original print was destroyed in a fire 80 years ago; like the several titles she made befo read more
Making her mark in the (Moving Picture) World
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 22, 2017
Barring a surprising find (and sometimes film recovery miracles happen), we can only conjecture about Carole Lombard's work at Fox in 1925. All of her movies there -- in which the teenager played supporting or minor roles -- have been lost for decades, as a fire in 1937 destroyed much of the studio' read more
Lombard and Winkler's rosy prequel
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 21, 2017
Yesterday's entry was on a letter from Carole Lombard and Clark Gable to MGM publicist Otto Winkler and wife Jill thanking them for the roses they had received for Christmas 1941...less than three weeks before Carole and Otto would die in a plane crash. (Above is Winkler with the Gables on March 30, read more
Thanks for the roses
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 20, 2017
There are those who may wonder why Otto Winkler, the publicist who died Jan. 16, 1942 in the Nevada air accident that also claimed the lives of Carole Lombard and her mother, was on that ill-fated war bond trip to Indiana. After all, he worked for MGM, a studio Lombard never worked for save the mino read more
So after the wedding, where did they go?
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 19, 2017
The particulars of the marriage between Carole Lombard and Clark Gable on March 29, 1939 have led to confusion, legend and just plain falsehood. We know they wed in Kingman, Ariz., and met the press at their soon-to-be home in Encino on March 30. (The photo above was snapped on that day.)But how'd t read more
Lombard-Crandell, part 2
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 18, 2017
Yesterday, we noted the existence of this pastel of Carole Lombard by acclaimed illustrator Bradshaw Crandell, which was used for the cover of the November 1935 issue of William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan magazine (https://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/878292.html). As it turns out, that wasn't read more
The 'Cosmopolitan' Carole
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 17, 2017
Even before Carole Lombard posed for this costume party pic in April 1937, she knew William Randolph Hearst, at center. Not only did she visit his majestic castle (which he always called "the ranch") at San Simeon several times, but as a teen in the mid-1920s and a beginner to acting, Carole dated o read more
'What A Character!' blogathon: Nat Pendleton
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 16, 2017
Early last month, I announced plans to participate in this year's "What A Character!" blogathon, designed to honor the foot soldiers of film (and TV) acting -- the supporting players who helped make Carole Lombard and other stars shine. I did so several years ago, honoring Walter Connolly (http://ca read more