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Carole Lombard starring in, er, as 'Mannequin'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Sep 16, 2017
No, we don't mean the 1987 movie -- filmed at the famed John Wanamaker department store in center city Philadelphia -- about a mannequin who somehow comes to life. (My blogosphere buddy Ken Levine, best known as a TV writer for the likes of "Frasier," "Cheers" and "M*A*S*H," helped write its lesser- read more
The Contagious Dynamism of Carole Lombard in My Man Godfrey
The Wonderful World of Cinema Posted by Virginie Pronovost on Jan 19, 2017
Last January 16 marked the 75th anniversary of Carole Lombard’s passing. This luminous actress tragically lost her life at the young age of 33 in a plane crash. To honour her memory, my friends Crystal from In the Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood and Laura from Phyllis Loves Classic Movies read more
Carole Lombard: Screwball Queen
Old Hollywood Films Posted by Amanda Garrett on Jan 18, 2017
Today, I'm writing about the screwball comedies made by actress Carole Lombard.
This article is part of Carole Lombard: The Profane Angel Blogathon hosted by In the Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood and Phyllis Loves Classic Movies.
During the mid-1930s. screwball comedy was one of the glorie read more
Carole Lombard: The Profane Angel Blogathon – Lombard and Gable Pictorial
Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Annmarie Gatti on Jan 18, 2017
In Celebration of the Lovely Carole Lombard, a Behind-the-Scenes Pictorial of ‘Ma’ and ‘Pa’… As many of us classic movie fans know, Carole Lombard and Clark Gable met in 1932 while co-starring in No Man of Her Own. At that time, Lombard was married to William Powell, read more
Carole Lombard and Una Merkel in "True Confession": Inspiration for "I Love Lucy?"
Classic Movie Man Posted by Stephen Reginald on Jan 6, 2016
Carole Lombard and Una Merkel in "True Confession": Inspiration for "I Love Lucy?"
I Love Lucy was a landmark in television history. The original series ran for six years on CBS and for four of those years was the top-rated TV show in the country. One of the dynamics that made the show work s read more
Carole Lombard, thirties supergirl
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Nov 5, 2015
This is one reason why Carole Lombard memorabilia collectors continue to pursue pictures of hers for years.I've been tracking down images of Lombard for more tha two decades and had never come across this one before; you can be certain that if I had, not only would it be in at least my online collec read more
Quote of the Week: Clark Gable on Carole Lombard
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Oct 25, 2015
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Sometimes I wonder how Carole would take things the way they are today, and I always come up with the same answer–with a laugh. She’d get through it better than me.
- Clark Gable,in the fifties
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HAPPY 107TH BIRTHDAY CAROLE LOMBARD
In The Good Old Days Of Classic Hollywood Posted by Crystal Kalyana on Oct 8, 2015
Tuesday, October 6th marked the 107th anniversary of the birth of Carole Lombard, the famed motion picture actress who marked an ounce of distinction in Hollywood with her inimitable flair for screwball comedy that later earned her the nickname of the Queen Of Screwball. In the years following her read more
White Woman (1933) with Carole Lombard
Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on Sep 17, 2015
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The jungle movie was a staple in the early years of Hollywood, perhaps even rivalling the Western for a brief time period and peaking with the successful Tarzan series. Lost amid the churn of the early 1930s is White Woman, an interesting pre-code stew of a film.
White Woman comes packag read more
The Anti-Damsel Blogathon: 'Produced' by Carole Lombard
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Aug 15, 2015
When you read about the life of Carole Lombard, often it's difficult to believe that the prime of her career began slightly more than eight decades ago...and that we're slightly more than 17 months away from the 75th anniversary of her premature passing. There's such a modern, timeless air about her read more
The Anti-Damsel Blogathon: 'Produced' by Carole Lombard
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Aug 15, 2015
When you read about the life of Carole Lombard, often it's difficult to believe that the prime of her career began slightly more than eight decades ago...and that we're slightly more than 17 months away from the 75th anniversary of her premature passing. There's such a modern, timeless air about her read more
'True Confessions,' August 1934: Carole Lombard -- is she man-proof now?
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jul 25, 2015
Three years and three months ago, we ran an entry titled "Meet the 'man-proof' Miss Lombard" (http://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/506358.html), which in part described a story on Carole Lombard that ran in the August 1934 issue of True Confessions, the wildly popular magazine owned by eccentric Ber read more
'True Confessions,' August 1934: Carole Lombard -- is she man-proof now?
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Jul 25, 2015
Three years and three months ago, we ran an entry titled "Meet the 'man-proof' Miss Lombard" (http://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/506358.html), which in part described a story on Carole Lombard that ran in the August 1934 issue of True Confessions, the wildly popular magazine owned by eccentric Ber read more
Nothing Sacred: When Carole Lombard Was Pretending That She Was Pretending
The Wonderful World of Cinema Posted by The Wonderful World of Cinema on May 14, 2015
I hadn’t written anything about Carole Lombard yet. The point is,as I am writing this, I haven’t seen many of her films . However, I’m discovering this actress with a great pleasure and enjoyed her acting in all those three films: To Be or Not to Be (my favourite, and I think it&# read more
Carole Lombard, on the 'Virtue' of smoking*
Carole & Co. Posted by vp19 on Apr 7, 2015
(*This entry is not endorsed by the Surgeon General's office.) Then again, it was 1932 and Lombard, like most of us at the time, didn't know any better. Smoking made you look chic and sophisticated -- or so we thought -- so it's understandable Carole would wish to purvey such a feeling in a publicit read more
Carole Lombard, on the 'Virtue' of smoking*
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Apr 7, 2015
(*This entry is not endorsed by the Surgeon General's office.) Then again, it was 1932 and Lombard, like most of us at the time, didn't know any better. Smoking made you look chic and sophisticated -- or so we thought -- so it's understandable Carole would wish to purvey such a feeling in a publicit read more
To Be or Not to Be (1942) with Jack Benny and Carole Lombard
Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on Mar 19, 2015
Share This!“They named a brandy after Napoleon, they made a herring out ofBismarck and the Führer is going to end up as a piece of cheese!” — Colonel Ehrhardt Jack Benny, who had been a successful vaudevillian and was, in the 1940s, a great success on radio, had less success in the movies, read more
Book Review: Carole Lombard Lives on in A Touch of Stardust
Classic Movies Posted by KC on Feb 16, 2015
A Touch of Stardust: A Novel
Kate Alcott
Double Day
Release Date: 2/17/15
I approached A Touch of Stardust with caution, because I am always wary of novels that fictionalize the lives of my movie idols. As Carole Lombard and Clark Gable are among my first silver screen loves, I felt especially on g read more
INTERVIEW WITH MYRON H. DAVIS. CAROLE LOMBARD’S PHOTOGRAPHER FROM THE WAR BOND RALLY.
In The Good Old Days Of Classic Hollywood Posted by Crystal Kalyana on Jan 15, 2015
Hello Readers, It’s January 15th, the anniversary of the eve of Carole Lombard’s tragic death from the airline crash on Potosi Mountain on Friday, January 16th, 1942. I thought I would post a tribute to commemorate the 73rd anniversary of the day that Carole Lombard fulfilled her read more
Hall Of Fame Inductee for December: CAROLE LOMBARD
All Good Things Posted by monty on Dec 21, 2014
It's been ages since I did an induction for my Hall of Fame and it occurred to me that Carole Lombard, my favorite actress had not been inducted yet. My oh my, that has to be corrected. Carole's achievements include winning a Montie for Best Actress for her performance in My Man Godfrey and win read more