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Another honor to 'Stand Tall!' about
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 21, 2020
Unlike Carole Lombard's reaction in "True Confession," I'm pleasantly surprised by the news I received today. It's yet another honor for my romantic comedy feature script......"Stand Tall!", an official selection of the Beyond The Curve International Film Festival of Paris (https://www.bciff.org/off read more
Back, and on target
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 19, 2020
Some of you likely wonder where I've been the past few days (my previous entry was Sunday night). Let me assure you nothing's happened with my health, no Covid-19 or anything to that effect. But after 13 1/2 years of running this site, taking time off only for matters such as homelessness and the li read more
A Lombard portrait so Richee done
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 13, 2020
Photographer Eugene Robert Richee (1896-1972) and subject Carole Lombard made for quite a team during the early and mid-1930s. He took many of Carole's most sensual Paramount portraits, especially during the pre-Code era (witness this still at top of Lombard for the 1933 potboiler "White Woman"). Bu read more
Oh deer, it's Gary Cooper
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 12, 2020
We've previously run this photo from Carole Lombard's "I Take This Woman," as her New York socialite character, now on the Wyoming turf of her new rancher husband Gary Cooper, meets some of his pals as he shows off his taxidermy skills. Yes, gang, it's going to be a 1931 version of a culture clash ( read more
What's the 'II" all about? Now we know
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 11, 2020
In May, Kino Lorber announced the upcoming release of three Carole Lombard titles on Blu-ray, which the studio had the temerity to list as the "Carole Lombard Collection I" (https://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/1094122.html) In a world where so many items are labeled as "first annual" without ever read more
Marsha, Pauline and documentaries on TCM Friday
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 10, 2020
In February 1941, many New York film fans eagerly awaited Carole Lombard's return to comedy...and what better place for it than the streamline palace of midtown Manhattan? Radio City Music Hall, a marvel inside and out, had been around since late 1932, blending first-run movies with exquisite stage read more
Drink, and be merry!
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 9, 2020
When it comes to Carole Lombard and Richard Barthelmess, this is the image most associated with them: From the June 1935 party at the Venice Pier, Carole and Richard flanking Cary Grant and Marlene Dietrich. Alas, Barthelmess is often cropped from the photo, since many today have no idea who he is.B read more
A different sort of 'Dressing'
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 8, 2020
"We're Not Dressing" is a fun, if sometimes silly musical romp where Carole Lombard is Bing Crosby's leading lady, complemented by Ethel Merman, Leon Errol and as comic relief, George Burns and Gracie Allen. It was filmed in early 1934, much of it on Catalina Island.But at the tail end of 1933 (Dec. read more
A fashionable flapper (and dig those shoes!)
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 7, 2020
It's sometime in 1929, and Carole Lombard, a requisite cloche atop her head, appears ready to face the chilly world in a stunning coat -- and speaking of stunning, check out those shoes. Here they are in close-up: Would that footwear still be fashionable today? The image, new to me until today, has read more
A LAMP-lighter: 'Stand Tall!' takes another award
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 6, 2020
As Carole Lombard peruses a movie script, I'm becoming increasingly confident someday soon, a professional actor not only will read one of mine, but then perform it on screen. My optimism wqs bolstered today, when I received some good news from the Los Angeles Motion Picture Festival:My romantic com read more
Think of summer evenings
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 5, 2020
These may be interesting times, but they aren't the easiest, as Carole Lombard's nurse character learned in Britain in "Vigil In The Night." Here in southern California, where the coronavirus has limited the percentage of intensive-care unit beds at local hospitals, effectively resulting in a stay-a read more
A rotating session
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 4, 2020
Plenty of people love this color cover portrait of Carole Lombard, from the June 1938 issue of Hollywood magazine...since it's simply so, well, unusual. Today, someone who follows me at the Twitter site "It's the pictures that got small" posted it. A comment came from "Forever Louise Brooks" -- "Tha read more
Postcard picturesque
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 3, 2020
While I've seen many photos of Carole Lombard with her beloved Palomino Pico, I don't think I've ever come across this one before. It was on a 1930s German postcard, whose backside looks like this:A nice collectible. You can buy this postcard for $24.91, or you can make an offer. To learn more, vis read more
Lombard rides the (Evening) Express, 1928
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 2, 2020
This is a drop-dead-gorgeous photo of Carole Lombard in a swimsuit on Nov. 18, 1928; it ran in the Los Angeles Times, still our prime local site from Lombard news. But while the Times was L.A.'s largest daily, it wasn't alone. The city had more than a few dailies, and since one of them just joined n read more
Ready...aim...FIRE!
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Dec 1, 2020
One of the ways Carole Lombard got in good with Clark Gable was to adopt some of his interests -- the outdoors, for instance. Lombard, a skilled athlete with superb reflexes, became a better shot than Gable was and liked showing off her skill.The above photo shows Carole at a gun club in late 1938. read more
A p1202 rarity
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Nov 30, 2020
Meet p1202-1277, one of Carole Lombard's rarer portraits in the Paramount series. It's from 1935 or '36, and shows the star in a mink stole:The rear of the photo provides information, too, but it's of a somewhat jarring nature:It's stamped with a date of June 2, 1944, two years after Lombard's death read more
You'd think she was porcelain
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Nov 29, 2020
At her best, Carole Lombard could look incredibly ethereal. This image makes that evident, as the star looks to be fragile, constructed of porcelain or some other delicate item. But no, this is the flesh-and-blood Carole, derived from a mid-1930s photo and a postcard measuring 3 1/2" x 5 1/2". Accor read more
Hurry and bid on Carole's (non-raspberry) beret
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Nov 28, 2020
I think this Carole Lombard portrait, p1202-884, is new to me because I didn't previously see it in my files. Nor did I see the rear, which includes a "JUL 30 1934" stamp and a snipe: If you can't read the snipe, here it is, isolated and en;arged:Lombard's beret, promoting her upcoming film "Now And read more
Board the 'Twentieth Century,' with...Betty and Orson?
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Nov 27, 2020
For nearly 90 years, audiences have thrilled to the uproarious comedy of Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's showbiz satire "Twentieth Century" (the title refers to the fabled train where much of the action takes place). Whether it be in the 1934 Columbia movie where Carole Lombard soared to stardom o read more
A happy Thanksgiving, plus a cornbread recipe from the Veep-elect
Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on Nov 26, 2020
We've run this Thanksgiving-themed Carole Lombard photo before, but since it combines several Hollywood notables, it's worth showing again.For Thanksgiving 1936, Carole and Clark Gable had a holiday dinner at the 120-acre Marwyck Ranch in Northridge, co-owned by Barbara Stanwyck and Marion Marx. Pic read more