Carole Lombard

bridiequilty:

When the basically dramatic Swing High, Swing Low also made her a singer, besides adding tap dancing to her inventory of ballroom skills, she staged her own solo-performance mock opera on the set. Parodying the picture and its other players with sly lyrics of her own invention, she garnished her display with a striptease that was more strip than tease, to the rollicking approval of the boys on the crew.

Screwball - The Life of Carole Lombard

January 10, 2012, 4:23am

1930slove:

“I was certain that he would prefer not having as a wife an actress with a career on a par with his, that he would prefer someone who could be happy devoting herself entirely to him. I was wrong in the way I judged him. I thought he liked to live in the moment, to be free of responsibilites. Then came Carole Lombard.

I liked Carole and I told myself I was happy for Clark and for her, too. I never considered myself an envious person, because I wasn’t one. But to tell you the truth, I did have a few times when Clark told me about how wonderful she was. I didn’t exactly enjoy hearing those words, so many of them pouring out of Clark, who never had had that many words to spare during the years I knew him. Carole must have been divinely happy.

But then the tradgedy happend. The plane crash. And she’d been working for our country on a bond drive. It was terrible. She was suppost to take a train, but she took a plane to get back faster to Clark. “-

Joan Crawford talking about Clark Gable and Carole Lombard (excerpt from Not the Girl Next Door)

September 24, 2011, 4:09pm