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The photo above shows Carole Lombard and Clark Gable at their Encino, Calif., ranch. This is article is part of  Dear Mr. Gable: A Celebration of the King of Hollywood hosted by Love Letters to Old Hollywood. During their three-year marriage, Clark Gable and Carole Lombard were the king and read more

When we think of Carole Lombard's work for Mack Sennett, we naturally first consider her starring vehicles such as "Run, Girl, Run" (above). But as part of the Sennett troupe, Lombard made numerous appearances in his two-reelers (and a handful of four-reelers as well).Today, I viewed one of her Senn read more

(It's March 1966. More than two dozen years after her plane stayed in the air, Carole Lombard -- now 57 and transitioning into work as a character actress when she's not producing films -- gets a call from an old friend she worked with in "Love Before Breakfast.") Carole Lombard: Hello.Cesar Romero: read more

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

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

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

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?" 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

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

Image Source 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 Quote Source read more

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

Share This! 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

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

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

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

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

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

(*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

(*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

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