Carole Lombard: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in the Performing Arts)
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Alexa here from Pop Elegantiarum again. So yesterday was Carole Lombard 's birthday. I usually mark the occasion by quoting my favorite lines from My Man Godfrey at every opportunity. ("Life is but an empty bubble.") Today I thought I'd share this old magazine of mine, which purports to tell Carole's life story. It doesn't really; it's mostly worth it for its sumptuous...
Art Deco (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Carole Lombard , originally uploaded by Gatochy . Via It'll Take The Snap Out Of Your Garters! blog. Click image for 500 x 641 size.
Colin McEnroe | To Wit (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
I don't know much anything about Taylor Swift, but I was sleepily watching SNL last night, and it seemed to me she had nicely goofy Carole Lombard type comic chops. That was the good news. When she sang, it turned...
The mental_floss Blogs (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... In 1939, Clark Gable took a break from shooting Gone With the Wind to propose to his girlfriend Carole Lombard in one of the booths. The Hollywood Brown Derby is also credited as the birthplace of the Cobb Salad, named after owner Bob Cobb. Although iconic, the Hollywood location closed its doors in 1985 and only a portion of its façade remains today. 3. The Taft Building – Hollywood...
look back in anger (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
simply prefer cats to dogs. marlon brando, judy garland, and carole lombard, to name just three.
Seraphic Secret (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
... Joan Crawford's linebacker shoulders with padding, Travis Banton's Pygmalion transformation of Carole Lombard (real name: Jane Alice Peters) from a cheap tootsie into a sophisticated clothes horse, and Helen Rose's classically elegant and ultra-feminine chiffon creations for Elizabeth Taylor, Wardrobe Designer vigorously waved away my suggestions: “Shoes.” I was like:...
Mae West (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
... and comedies, in 1936 she was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Carole Lombard's upper-crust mother in "My Man Godfrey" [released on 17 September 1936]. • • "Go West, Young Man" — — released 18 November 1936 • • Directly after this success for Universal Pictures, Alice Brady was off to Paramount Pictures...
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
... range"...!). LACMA'S Tuesday matinee series in November includes Robert Montgomery and Carole Lombard in MR. AND MRS. SMITH on November 10 and Robert Taylor and Ava Gardner in KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE on November 24. I certainly wish the Museum were a bit closer...I've never seen MR. AND MRS. SMITH on a big screen, and I don't think I've ever seen a single Robert Taylor film...
SpoilerTV (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
... to Depression-Era comedies like (1936's) "My Man Godfrey" (starring William Powell and Carole Lombard) or (1934's) "The Thin Man" (starring Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles), where they’re living the high life in the midst of the Depression - drinking and having a good time while solving murders.” What a bizarre concept - Temperance Brennan...
look back in anger (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
the other night i was watching a documentary on clark gable. there i sat enjoying all the early photos of clark before he got super famous. i knew about his loving and tragic marriage to the glorious carole lombard who died doing war time service but what i did not know was that he and loretta young had a child together. whoa. imagine being at a dinner party and telling someone that your...
Get the Big Picture (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Kristen Bell continues to parlay her modern day Carole Lombard thing into big movie roles. Attractive and possessing a rare self-effacing sense of humor among young actresses (as her discussion of her lazy eye on Craig Freguson last year would attest), Bell has been seen in the past couple of years in Forgetting Sarah Marshall and in this weekend's Couples Retreat , and has a leading...
Jewel Box Dreams (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
This varnish is always fun to apply because the after the first coat it looks like the dullest (as in least interesting) shimmer/glitter varnish ever. And then you paint coat two, and it turns into something special. Refined and very elegant. Not to mention a big change from all the dark varnish I've been wearing lately.Hollywood Blonde is a great name. I can imagine Marlene Dietrich or Carole...
