Gossip Friday: She’ll Manage

From 1938:

How’ll Carole Lombard manage minus her hitherto indispensable pal Fieldsie? Why, quite all right because Fieldsie may be a bride but she is still handling Carole’s business matters. For years this friendship has been a Hollywood legend. When Carole became a big shot she remembered the good-natured efficient Madeleine Fields. They’d been Mack Sennett comedy girls together. Fieldsie was installed in the Lombard home as a buffer, personal secretary. and companion. Where Carole went her shadow showed, too. During the course of their double dates, Fieldsie and famed director Fritz Lang discovered one another. Now Fieldsie has returned from New York trousseau-shopping, with her new husband in tow. She no longer lives with Carole, but has a mansion of her own. Being a wife isn’t interfering with her old duties–she’s loyally hanging onto them. She taught Carole how to save her money, and she’s not going to let the gal go berserk and be careless with her dough at this stage!