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The car may be gone, but Jean's exhibit lives on (for a while)
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 15, 2017
We traditionally open each Carole & Co. entry with an image of Carole Lombard associated with its subject, and so we do here. But this pic, from the July 1935 Radio Mirror, frankly doesn't do justice to either Carole or the other woman pictured. (The men in this 1934 pic are, from left, Walter Winch read more
A mouse buys a Fox; what's next?
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 14, 2017
The 1930 western "The Arizona Kid" is the only surviving link of Carole Lombard, shown with Warner Baxter, to the Fox film studio (as a teenage starlet, she appeared in several now-lost silents there in the mid-1920s). She never worked for Walt Disney, but attended "Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs," t read more
A belated birthday present
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 13, 2017
Above is a stylish Carole Lombard pic, Paramount p1202-1167, from late 1935 or early '36. Below is a GIF of Carole that I had promised to run on Oct. 6, the 109th anniversary of her birth, but never got around to installing. So here it is, better late than never...four minutes and 10 seconds of asso read more
A Lombard bio, right on 'Target'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 9, 2017
Want to learn more about Carole Lombard? Of course you do. Now there's a way to do it, at a reasonable price.Michelle Morgan's bio "Carole Lombard: Twentieth-Century Star" (for which I assisted in research) is now available via eBay from Target -- that's right, the Minnesota-based department store c read more
For Pearl Harbor's anniversary, Lombard for poster-ity
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 7, 2017
Today marks the 76th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, an event that turned out to be pivotal -- fatally -- in Carole Lombard's life. She's shown here in Chicago on Jan. 14, 1942, a day before she would launch a nationwide series of war bond rallies in Indianapolis and two days before a plane crash in Ne read more
Boosting a real-life protege
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 6, 2017
Among the many things that make "My Man Godfrey" a screwball masterpiece that delights viewers more than 80 years after its initial release is the premise that Carole Lombard's character, dizzy Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock, intends to make William Powell's Godfrey -- ostensibly a "forgotten read more
Hollywood royalty in the UK
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 1, 2017
Carole Lombard never visited Great Britain during her brief life -- portraying an English nurse in "Vigil in the Night" was as close as she came. But Carole was popular on that side of "the pond," as cover appearances in UK movie mags such as Picturegoer made clear:Here's more proof. On Dec. 14, Int read more
A contract for Carole
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Nov 28, 2017
As I've often noted, "Vigil in the Night" isn't the easiest of Carole Lombard's films to watch, particularly for those of us who adore Carole as a comedic icon. At the same time, it's well crafted (as you would expect from a movie directed by George Stevens), and Lombard gives a performance that sho read more
An Academy Museum update
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Nov 27, 2017
It was three years ago this month that I saw the gown Carole Lombard wore in this film, the screwball classic "My Man Godfrey." Here's how it appeared at the exhibit:And said exhibit, "Hollywood Costume," was held at the corner of Wilshire and Fairfax -- here am I and my Australian friend Crystal Ka read more
Carole, and Hollywood, give thanks
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Nov 22, 2017
The December 1939 issue of Movie Mirror not only included this color portrait of Carole Lombard, but her Thanksgiving message (https://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/810963.html). It hit newsstands in mid-November, just before the holiday. And here's her handwritten message, reprinted in the magazine read more
Re-Capping Goldie's #MeToo moment
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Nov 21, 2017
Beginning with "Twentieth Century" in 1934, Carole Lombard brought a new, assertive style to female comic acting, and influenced subsequent generations of actresses. One of them turns 72 today.Goldie Hawn ended a 15-year sabbatical from films this spring with a supporting role in the Amy Schumer veh read more
Can you 'Take This Woman' on DVD? Apparently so
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Nov 19, 2017
Has arguably the least seen of Carole Lombard's Paramount features been issued on DVD? If an eBay seller's ad is true, yes."I Take This Woman," the 1931 film Carole made with Gary Cooper, is being advertised on eBay, as three other relative Lombard rarities -- "Sinners in the Sun" (1932), "Bolero" ( read more
Carole's Heritage up for auction this weekend
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Nov 18, 2017
This charming photo of Carole Lombard with her beloved Palomino gelding Pico is Paramount p1202-1541 from late 1937. It's among an array of Lombard photographs up for auction at Heritage Auction this weekend.Heritage is based in Dallas, so my good friend Carole Sampeck (who lives in the Metroplex) i read more
Go west, bad Carole
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Nov 16, 2017
"The Arizona Kid" (1930) has a rather unusual spot in the Carole Lombard oeuvre. Let us explain why:* It's the only surviving film, and her lone talkie, from Fox Studios, where she toiled as a starlet for several silents in 1925 before an auto accident sidelined her and led Fox to decline to renew h read more
A reissue I missed
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Nov 15, 2017
"Hands Across the Table" is probably my favorite Carole Lombard film made at Paramount. It has laughs (as seen in this scene, where Carole pretends to sound like a long-distance operator, to Fred MacMurray's delight), romance, even more sexual tension than a 1935 film was supposed to have, thanks to read more
Carole and Coop, 'Now and Forever'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Nov 14, 2017
"CAROLE AND GARY ARE IN LOVE AGAIN" -- but lest you think Lombard and Cooper were intimate, romantically or physically -- this 1934 fan magazine (not sure which one it is) instantly slaps such thoughts from your mind by noting, "Of course, they're only pretending." Darn.We bring this up because seve read more
Bringing back a bit of classic (West) Hollywood
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Nov 10, 2017
In the fall of 1941, Carole Lombard was fulfilling a years-long dream by starring in a film for director Ernst Lubitsch, "To Be Or Not To Be." A United Artists production (thus enabling Carole to boast she had worked for all of the industry's eight major firms), it was shot at the Goldwyn Studios of read more
Thru these portals, a Hollywood classic will be restored
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Nov 9, 2017
It's late December 1938 and Carole Lombard and Clark Gable, not yet married but well on their way to doing so, joined an array of Hollywood notables attending the grand opening of the cinema capital's latest nightclub. It was on Sunset Boulevard, not far from the Columbia Square (CBS) and NBC West C read more
Another #MeToo story from classic Hollywood
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Nov 8, 2017
From all accounts, Carole Lombard had a fine working relationship with director William Wellman while making "Nothing Sacred." (He's at left in this photo taken at the Selznick International Pictures commissary; art director Lyle Wheeler is on the other side of Carole.) Other women in the industry, read more
'Lombard' comes to life, via audio
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Nov 4, 2017
Imagine you're in the presence of Carole Lombard in her suite at the Claypool Hotel in Indianapolis on Jan. 15, 1942. She's in a heady mood, having sold more than $2 million in war bonds that day in the first rally of its kind, only 5 1/2 weeks after Pearl Harbor. She chats with you about her life, read more