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Of Carole Lombard's five releases for Columbia, "Brief Moment" arguably is the lowest on the figurative totem pole. It lacks the career-changing screwball importance of "Twentieth Century," the pre-Code rawness of "Virtue," the glimpses of the Carole yet to come in "No More Orchids" or the maternal read more

Believe it or not, some years ago, these Carole Lombard postage stamps were actually issued.In Australia. A nice honor (though to be fair, I don't know how Australia selects postage stamp subjects), but it's one Carole has yet to receive from her home country. We Americans can change that.As we've p read more

  Part Two of our Exclusive Interview with Victoria Riskin, author of “Fay Wray and Robert Riskin: A Hollywood Memoir” Today we’re sharing Part Two of our Exclusive Interview with Victoria Riskin (daughter of Fay Wray and Robert Riskin) about her new book “Fay Wray and Robert read more

Today marks the 80th anniversary of Carole Lombard's second marriage, to iconic leading man Clark Gable. (They're shown the following day at their soon-to-be home in Encino, where they met a huge corps of reporters.)This was a big deal to the moviegoing public, arguably the biggest marriage of Holly read more

Fay Wray and Robert Riskin: A Hollywood Memoir Victoria Riskin Pantheon Books, 2019 I’ve read dozens (hundreds?) of Hollywood autobiographies and Fay Wray’s memoir On the Other Hand has always been one of my favorites. The sense of wonder and fun she found in life, despite all the hard read more

It's among the most famous of Carole Lombard film images: the black eye her character Kay Colby accidentally received in "Love Before Breakfast." But did you know it's not her only movie to include such a scene? And this time, she wasn't the victim, merely a bystander.It's from her 1929 Pathe film " read more

For Carole Lombard, the first few months of 1931 were a whirlwind.It's no secret that the early 1930s, before the Screen Actors Guild gained power, were grueling for actors. (Think of Joan Blondell, who appeared in thirty-five films -- some as a star, others in supporting or bit parts -- between 193 read more

Here I am near Carole Lombard's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame during the 2015 Turner Classic Movies Film Festival. Finances, or lack thereof, have prevented me from attending another -- even though I now live in Los Angeles -- but thousands of others continue to make the pilgrimage to Hollywood read more

This April, I will have the occasion to participate in something pretty special for the first time in my life: the Turner Classic Film Festival in Los Angeles! This is pretty much THE golden event for every classic film addicts like me. I first heard of the festival a few years ago but was never ab read more

I've signed up for yet another blogathon, one for an actress who was part of a fabled acting family. She made one film with Carole Lombard, a little-remembered silent comedy early in their careers where both had bit parts (that's Carole above from the movie).The actress who's the blogathon subject? read more

One of my favorite Carole Lombard books, "Carole Lombard: Twentieth-Century Star," was authored by British Facebook friend Michelle Morgan.(Full disclosure: I aided Morgan in her research, and am one of two people the book is dedicated to.) Now she's back with a volume on a favorite subject of hers. read more

We're officially three months away from the inaugural Rom-Com Fest in Los Angeles, a celebration of the genre Carole Lombard popularized with films such as "The Princess Comes Across." Part of the event includes a script competition, but after sending my feature "Stand Tall!" to them......I since ha read more

Neither Carole Lombard nor her two actor husbands, William Powell or Clark Gable, were strangers to the central California opulence in San Simeon popularly known as Hearst Castle. (Bill and Carole are shown near the main entrance in 1931.) This year marks a milestone for the landmark, as it was 100 read more

The cover of The Art Forger is filled with enconia such as that it’s “a clever, twisty novel about art, authenticity, love, and betrayal” and “a provocative meditation on what we value most,” that it “will . . . leave you with a new appreciation of how paintings read more

It's mid-April 1936, and the romance between Carole Lombard and Clark Gable is heating up Hollywood. So what if Gable's already married to the much older Ria Langham? Their lack of passion is no secret to the public.I'm not certain whether they're attending is a boxing match, a ballgame or whatever. read more

"Nothing Sacred," Carole Lombard's Technicolor laughfest, was popular across the globe, no matter what language audiences spoke. One of those languages was Danish, as we discovered two months ago when a program that may have been from a 1948 re-release was advertised on eBay (https://carole-and-co.l read more

Carole Lombard's "I Take This Woman" wouldn't premiere in Sweden until Jan. 2, 1932, but eight months earlier she already was known there. For proof, check out the cover of this Swedish magazine from April 19, 1931 -- a stunning image of Lombard I've never seen anywhere:The illustrated publication, read more

Fay Wray and Robert Riskin: A Hollywood Memoir Autographed Book Giveaway via Facebook and this Blog Okay, now it’s time for the Facebook/Blog version of our Fay Wray and Robert Riskin: A Hollywood Memoir Book Giveaway Contest. This time we’ll be giving away TWO AUTOGRAPHED COPIES of the book read more

Carole Lombard and Robert Riskin, a Hollywood couple that almost was, are shown at an event with a Hollywood couple that became legendary -- Irving Thalberg, left, next to wife Norma Shearer. Years later, screenwriter Riskin married a renowned actress, Fay Wray:We've been discussing Riskin and Wray read more

Classic Movie Hub and Once Upon a Screen observe the release of Victoria Riskin's book about her famous parents and their 1942-1955 marriage with a blogathon running on March 2nd, here and 3rd, here. Hollywood in 1934 was grappling with the prospect of truly enforcing the Production Cod read more