Gossip Friday: Carole Lombard’s Hair Styling Advice

From March 1937:

We watched Carole Lombard swishing around on the “Swing High, Swing Low” set at Paramount the other day, attired in two inches of white chiffon and two carloads of white ostrich feathers. We thought it all looked pretty elegant, and couldn’t understand the worried look in Travis Banton’s face. “These gowns give me the jitters,” he said. “They’re strictly honky tonk fashions, but Lombard makes them look so modish that I’m afraid every woman in the country will copy them–and probably look like a herd of ostriches.”

The hairdresser came up just then to arrange Carole’s blonde curls for a close-up. “This wave won’t stay in place unless we dampen it again,” she announced, calling to a prop boy for a pan of water. “Never mind the water,” said the glamorous Carole. “Just spit on it.”