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Remembering Carole on her angel day
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jan 16, 2015
Today marks the eighth year I've had to write an entry I annually dread, commemorating the anniversary of Carole Lombard's passing. This year holds a double whammy of sorts in that it coincidentally falls on a Friday, as it did in 1942, and it's my first year in Los Angeles. As I write this, it's a read more
Commemorating a fateful trip via Twitter
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jan 15, 2015
It was 73 years ago today that Carole Lombard fulfilled her patriotic duty as an American citizen by leading the nation's first war bond rally in Indianapolis, the capital of her native state of Indiana. It also would be the final full day of her life. Now, that pivotal journey is being commemorated read more
So you say you want a Lombard autograph?
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jan 14, 2015
It admittedly isn't in optimal condition, but if you've always dreamed of owning a photo autographed by Carole Lombard, you now have your chance. Here's the pic in full (including borders), measuring approximately 5 1/4" by 7 1/16":It features Carole's signature, in her preferred green ink:The selle read more
A happy ending in South Pasadena?
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jan 13, 2015
Jack Albin took this photo of Carole Lombard in September 1937, awaiting Clark Gable to finish his rehearsal of "Cimarron" on "Lux Radio Theater." (I initially was informed this pic was from 1939, but a check of the covers of Screen Book and Hollywood, featuring Barbara Stanwyck and Dorothy Lamour r read more
'Silver Screen,' February 1936: Star personality at home
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jan 12, 2015
By the start of 1936, Carole Lombard's home on Hollywood Boulevard already had gained renown as one of the film colony's showplaces. While Carole had cooled off on being Hollywood's premier partygiver, studio publicity had boosted her reputation for style and taste.So when Silver Screen decided to r read more
A scrapbook look at Lombard
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jan 11, 2015
I've previously noted that while my mother was a Carole Lombard fan in her youth, she wasn't her favorite film star. That honor went to Ruby Keeler, the winsome star of 1930s Warners musicals whose enthusiasm and likability often eclipsed her talent.Anyway, during mom's early teenage years, about 19 read more
'Modern Screen,' August 1938: That change in Carole
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jan 10, 2015
Every now and then, someone who's only recently begun to discover Carole Lombard's life and career will ask, "Why didn't people perceive Carole as a homewrecker when she began an affair with Clark Gable, a married man?" Or, in other words, why wasn't she viewed the same way Elizabeth Taylor was some read more
It's (all-)time to vote for Carole
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jan 9, 2015
Over the 7 1/2-plus years Carole & Co. has been in business, we've carried the banner for Carole Lombard in all sorts of competitions, culminating when she won the 2013 Favorite Classic Movie Actress Tourney (http://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/592300.html), beating Bette Davis, who would win the e read more
More of Lombard's life story, plus a Garbo bonus
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jan 8, 2015
Yesterday, we ran the first of a two-part Carole Lombard life story from fan magazine writer (and friend) Elizabeth Wilson in the October 1935 issue of Screenland, more or less focusing on the current Carole. In the November issue, Wilson goes into the past tense regarding Lombard, and while few thi read more
'Screenland,' October 1935: Her real life story...in reverse
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jan 7, 2015
We've shown this Charles Gates Sheldon cover of Carole Lombard from the October 1935 issue of Screenland before...but for some reason, we've never run the article about her that accompanies it. We're going to rectify that today, because it's simply wonderful to read -- especially since the author, E read more
A literary look at Leisen
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jan 6, 2015
In her brief lifetime, Carole Lombard worked with many notable directors -- Howard Hawks, William Wellman, Alfred Hitchcock and Ernst Lubitsch, to name but four. And you can make a good argument that the man she's talking with on the set, Mitchell Leisen (during a break in 1935's "Hands Across The T read more
Recalling the fearless Lombard
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jan 5, 2015
It's hard to imagine that six calendar years, plus roughly three months, have elapsed since Carole Lombard's centenary in October 2008. As was the case for other cinematic legends, the anniversary appropriately was celebrated in all sorts of ways, including a 23-film Lombard festival at the fabled F read more
See Carole with 'her beloved enemy,' and more
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jan 4, 2015
Carole Lombard's next-to-last film, "Mr. & Mrs. Smith," became somewhat lost in translation when the movie was promoted in foreign tongues -- after all, merely stating the couple's names as a film title didn't necessarily convey the tale of marital mayhem, especially since Lombard's last few movies read more
Lubitsch vs. Rogen
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jan 3, 2015
During the closing months of 1941, Carole Lombard told members of the press that "To Be Or Not To Be" was the best moviemaking experience she'd ever had. No doubt that finally making a film directed by Ernst Lubitsch (seen with cigar during a conference) -- an opportunity she had sought for nearly a read more
Lombard through a 'keyhole'
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jan 2, 2015
For some reason, Paramount liked using a "keyhole" motif for its promotional portraits in the early 1930s, as seen by that image above of Carole Lombard for 1930's "Safety In Numbers." A year later, the studio did something similar for Carole in a still for "Ladies' Man" (her expression in both pict read more
Keepin' it under her hat
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Jan 1, 2015
See that hat Carole Lombard is wearing, from the film "Now And Forever"? It's still around, and is available.To be sure, I initially had my doubts, especially as this was part of the eBay ad for it -- and the only image from the movie doesn't appear to show Carole in a hat, while the two pics of her read more
Reflections on a year of substantial change
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Dec 31, 2014
As I write this, some of you, in Australia and East Asia, already are in 2015. I'm still in 2014, looking back on what's been one of the most pivotal years of my life...a year three hours longer than others I've experienced. And that's one of the reasons -- perhaps the most important reason -- why t read more
Simon writes, Ken discusses on TCM
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Dec 30, 2014
Carole Lombard's formal education may have ended during her junior year at Fairfax High School in Los Angeles, but when it came to analyzing scripts, she was at the head of the class. Even in the early 1930s, soon after signing with Paramount, Lombard (seen with Robert Riskin, Oscar-winning screenwr read more
For the upcoming new year, think Young (as in Loretta)
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Dec 29, 2014
Carole Lombard and Loretta Young were, at best, casual acquaintances, though both certainly respected each other and showed a wider range of talent than one might expect. In the first week of 2015, you'll get an idea of what Loretta can do when both Turner Classic Movies in the U.S. and getTV show s read more
Saluting the heritage of the San Fernando Valley
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Dec 28, 2014
For Carole Lombard and second husband Clark Gable in 1939, their new ranch in Encino must have been heaven on earth...close enough to studios in Culver City, Hollywood, Universal City, Burbank and elsewhere, far enough to experience refuge from the hectic city life of Los Angeles. In the 1930s. '40s read more