VP19
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Time for me to revisit the Carole Lombard thread after watching a few more movies featuring her. The great thing about having never seen any Lombard movies is that everything is new to me. Two things about her jump out. 1. She was very funny. Top notch comedic actress. 2. That was one beautiful woman.
Welcome to the Lombard army, which recruits new members every day. She was amazing in so many ways.
If you want to learn even more about her, please visit my site dedicated to Lombard, her life and times, and people she knew and worked with: http://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/
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I think Hawks have these women do this balancing act, especially in the begining of the films, as a way to create sexual tension. The lead man at first reacts negatively to them but once the women show they have venerable side, the guy is hooked, and the tension eases.
Once you see Angie Dickinson in "Rio Bravo," you certainly want to venerate her.
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If Tyrone Power is the most popular classic Hollywood actor on Vulcan (must be the ears!), does that mean Loretta Young is the most popular actress? Or, like many earthlings, do they prefer her pre-Code work? (Perhaps Darryl F. Zanuck was engaging in secret interplanetary marketing, just to get the edge on Louis B. Mayer's "more stars than there are in heaven" angle.)
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If "The Artist" merely serves as a conduit for people to discover silent film and its many charms, it will have served a purpose. Thankfully, it is far more than that, and I hope it wins best picture and several other awards to go with it.
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I care this year, because I saw "The Artist" earlier this week -- and loved it. I wrote a bit more on the film at http://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/483696.html.
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Carole Lombard and Myrna Loy were both staunch FDR supporters, while Barbara Stanwyck was known for her Republican leanings. Of course, the parties were substantially different in composition in 1940 compared to today, as the South was solidly Democratic (it was the Dems that had the uneasy task of blending the segregationist southern bloc with its ethnic northern urban core), while the GOP was the business/Wall Street party, without the cultural conservatism that marks today's Republicans.
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Nice idea. Or we could honor two historians by naming it "The Osborne-Brownlow Theater." (Of course, since AMPAS is mulling a new site for the awards, this might all be moot.)
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You've got nine months and a few thousand miles to go before you can meet up with Marty McFly, so enjoy the Twin Cities for a while. When the weather warms come April, take in some baseball with the St. Paul Saints or their American Association archrivals, the Minneapolis Millers, who are playing their final season in Nicollet Park. Come next year, they'll be playing not in Minneapolis at all, but in a new stadium in some little suburb south of town called Bloomington. Who'd want to do anything there?
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On Feb. 8, Anthony Slide, author of "Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine: A History of Star Makers, Fabricators, and Gossip Mongers," will give a presentation on fan magazines at the Hollywood Heritage Museum (located at the relocated Lasky-De Mille barn across from the Hollywood Bowl) at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 8. Learn more at http://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/481196.html.
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mrroberts, I appreciate the plug -- and here's the url:
http://carole-and-co.livejournal.com
We pride ourselves on having a new entry virtually every day, covering Lombard's life and times and people she knew and worked with, memorabilia, media coverage and more. We've been up since June 2007, and have several hundred members. I think most movie buffs will enjoy the site.
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Interesting to see the story "The Ku Klux makes a movie" from the Oct. 6, 1923 issue. While the Klan's revival in this period arose largely from "Birth Of A Nation," this version wasn't so much anti-black as it was white, Protestant and promoting "Americanism" (aka white Protestant values -- its principal targets were Catholics, Jews and Prohibition opponents). The revived Klan, unlike its predecessor or successors, was popular outside the South and actually wielded some power for a brief time in Indiana and other states before scandals did in the organization. There are photos of Klan rallies along Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington in the mid-1920s that boggle the mind today.
*Movie Weekly September 29th-1923*
A few years later, Edwin Bower Hesser took a similar pose of a 19-year-old Carole Lombard while she was working for Mack Sennett:
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Lombard's death was a terrible shock, but people die in accidents all the time. Some cutie I just recently saw in a pre-code had died before she was 30 in a car accident. James Dean. Awful.
The "cutie" you may have been referring to was Dorothy Dell, who died in a car accident in June 1934 before she turned 20.
Substance abuse death is a tragedy mostly because if you catch them, you may be able to help them before it's too late.
What about Harlow dying from a fully preventable condition at 29 (?)
Harlow died of kidney infection at age 26 (a by-product of scarlet fever she had contracted in her teens), and at the time her condition was not treatable. Were she around at that age today, it would be taken care of, but such medical care wasn't available 75 years ago.
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I was thrilled when they colorized "My Man Godfrey." I have always loved the art deco style of decorating back in those days and the colorizing just emphasized the beauty of the decor.
Believe it or not, a few years ago, there was an eBay auction for a DVD of "Godfrey," retrofitted to 3-D. Why anyone would want to convert "Godfrey" into that format is incomprehensible, aside from that it's in public domain, but here's what I wrote about it at the time: http://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/130264.html
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I went to your Photoplay link, I looked at the 1929 issues, and I found that I
could copy each page like a photograph
It's become a wonderful resource for me in doing research for "Carole & Co.", and one thing I love about it is that, unlike microfilm, these images can sometimes be seen in color...not just the magazine covers, but sometimes advertisements for movies, particularly in trade publications, where studios would advertise their upcoming attractions in order to entice distributors or theater owners. For example, look at this stunning image, part of a two-page spread from Paramount in Film Daily of Feb. 3, 1936 to promote the first three-strip Technicolor feature filmed outdoors, "The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine":
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Smart comment regarding the condition of the magazines. In lieu of using a scanner and risking damage to the magazine, either get a hand-held scanner or take a photograph and convert it into an image...a much safer method.
There still aren't that many classic Hollywood film magazines available online, but one source I use for my research is the Media History Digital Library; it has a variety of classic movie-related publications (including color covers, photography and art work), and it continues to grow. At last check, their inventory now includes:
*Fan magazines*
Motion Picture Story Magazine -- part of 1913
Picture Stories Magazine -- parts of 1913 and 1914
Photoplay -- all of 1929, 1930 and 1935, and parts of 1917, 1920, 1925-1928, 1936-1938 and 1940
Motion Picture Classic -- all of 1920
Cine-Mundial (Spanish) -- all of 1920
*Trade publications*
Moving Picture World -- all of 1913 and 1914, and parts of 1912 and 1915-1918
Film Daily -- all of 1919, 1920, 1922, 1923, 1926-1932, and parts of 1918, 1921, 1924, 1925 and 1933-1936
Exhibitors Trade Review -- parts of 1921 and 1922
Exhibitors Herald -- parts of 1923 and 1924
Motion Picture News -- parts of 1928-1930
Motion Picture Daily -- parts of 1931, 1933 and 1934
Hollywood Reporter -- parts of 1933 and 1934
To see the entire holdings, go to http://mediahistoryproject.org/collections/
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I was checking out your post and I scrolled down to look at the pictures of Lombard. I saw a photo that I had posted that USED to be Lombard. Now it's some little girl's birthday photo.
I am SO fed up with tinypic.com. I'm assuming they recycle links to pictures - anyway, I am going to ask Michael to remove it.
It's not like the picture is controversial, but I want it gone so other people don't think that I'm completely out of my mind (well, any more than they already might...).
I'm hoping that it's instead some celestial spirits at work, and that many of Lombard's traits have been magically transferred to that little girl -- in which case she should consider herself blessed.
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Betty grew up in Los Angeles (you can see where she lived in 1930 by checking http://allanellenberger.com/book-flm-news/betty-white-in-the-1930-census), and in one of her books, she writes that her Hollywood idol was, of all people, Jeanette MacDonald! (I'm guessing that was from Jeanette's mid- to late-thirties MGM period, not her Paramount-Lubitsch "lingerie queen" days.) Betty, with her splendid comedic sense, would make a great guest programmer, and I wonder what films she would choose.
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Colorizing older movies makes them far more accessible. Fans of classic movies have built such a mystique around older movies that many people feel they can not enjoy a black and white movie without having a wealth of esoteric knowledge about the director, stars and genres.
To say: "You have to watch this movie even although it is in black and white. It is the director's initial use of outre nihilism so you can see how it all began. It is given subtle humor by the star using the same accent he did in another movie the year before when he played a character who was insane. You also get to see the sets from twenty other movies because the studio was having financial troubles and they had to reuse all that they could" is dooming any possibility that it will be watched and that is exactly the type of thing most fans do.
Having the film in color removes at least one barrier and makes it seem mainstream so a potential viewer is more likely to give it a chance.
Change some words, some terminology, and you have much the same argument that was made for "reprocessed" stereo versions of original monophonic records made before 1958. The "fake stereo" effect (Capitol called its process "duophonic") never improved the original recordings, and in most cases substantially weakened the sound. Eventually, reprocessed stereo went to the junkheap of history. Good scripts, acting and direction work equally well in black-and-white or color.
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Some perspective on her passing, and the time that's elapsed:
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If you can print any Carole Lombard stories, it would be appreciated -- especially those in magazines other than Photoplay. While some of the articles written about her were trite PR fluff, she occasionally discussed women's roles in these articles, showing her to be very much the feminist and in many ways ahead of her time. (For proof, visit http://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/157005.html and http://carole-and-co.livejournal.com/111181.html.)
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Anyway, my pool playing friend asked who was in COLOR OF MONEY, I told him Paul Newman & Tom Cruise. He'd heard of Tom Cruise but didn't know who he was. He had no idea who Paul Newman was.
I guess the fellow doesn't do much grocery shopping, considering the wide array of "Newman's Own" products, from tea and coffee to popcorn, salsa and salad dressings.
Regarding "groovy" in pre-sixties lingo, didn't Anita O'Day say "groovy" or "groovin'" in the classic 1941 recording of Gene Krupa's "Let Me Off Uptown"?
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I have never seen this film nor am I familiar with Anna Chang, but one would think against all the non-Asians in the cast (and Myrna Loy is not among them!), she would stick out like a sore thumb.
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Let us hope a few featuring the teenaged Carole Lombard, made relatively late in Sennett's tenure, are included in the mix. I'd love to see a restored "Run, Girl, Run," and the four-reel "The Girl From Everywhere" is supposedly plenty of fun.
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Bunnievision, where is your Comcast? Their service varies by market.
As for me, I have DirecTV, since I moved to Lynchburg, Va. in April 2010 and Comcast here in Lynchburg doesn't carry MASN (Washington Nationals baseball). I think TCM is carried on just about every tier of DirecTV.
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I started using a Carole Lombard pic as my huge Facebook cover photo. People have asked me, "who's that?". Get into a little explanation and next thing I know a couple of friends are telling me they've picked up Lombard dvd's to check her out. Maybe there's hope for the youth of America yet
Just checked it out...and Lombard indeed registers with later generations. She's timeless.