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Gossip Friday: Mystery Flowers
From August 1936: Red Camellias for Carole Lombard. There’s a romance there, but Hollywood has been unable to learn the name of the man. Each morning during the past week the flowers have arrived on the set where she and Fred MacMurray are making “The Princess Comes Across.” Some accuse the shy MacMurray. Others speak the name of Clark Gable with whom rumors have linked the blonde Carole of late. But Carole herself, she just smiles, admitting cautiously that she has found new interest in life and that he is a well-known actor. Apparently she shares the secret with the red camellias only. If you remember right, this is Miss…
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{New Article} Hollywood Personalities and Their Ideas About Food: Carole Lombard
Here is a little article that ran syndicated in newspapers throughout the country in January 1936. It’s supposed to be about food but the majority of the article prattles on about Carole’s early days in Hollywood and then she gives us a “recipe,” if you can call it that. Hollywood Personalities and Their Ideas About Food: Carole Lombard As Told by Valentine Lyon Syndicated Press January 23, 1936 When just seven years of age, Carole Lombard came to Hollywood with her mother and two brothers. They came only to stay six months, but none of them ever returned to their home in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Carole was familiar with…
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Happy 109th, Carole Lombard!
Happy Birthday, Carole Lombard! To celebrate, since it’s Friday too, here are some gossip items about Carole’s birthday over the years, some I’ve printed before, some I haven’t: From 1931: Yesterday was Carole Lombard’s birthday. Husband Bill Powell gave her an antique silver service and a china set. From 1937: Carole Lombard had a birthday. Firecrackers exploded under her chair. There was a rubber spider in her makeup box. Carole ate cotton-stuffed candy. Carole struck a match–it exploded. Carole lit a cigarette–it exploded. Carole shook the salt shaker–it contained sugar. Carole’s wondering if it isn’t a pretty high price to pay to maintain her reputation as moviedom’s leading practical joker.…
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{In the News} Carole Lombard in 1936: January-April
As part of Carole Lombard month, here’s the start of a news clipping series on Carole Lombard. I have done these news clippings posts before, on fourth wife Sylvia Ashley and fifth wife Kay Williams. Carole is, of course, more difficult to accumulate clippings on just because of the sheer volume of them–thousands and thousands a year! But I thought it would be interesting to follow her around in 1936, the year that she and Clark started officially dating. The year started with a lot of press for her film “Hands Across the Table” and… January 1, 1936: Carole Lombard admits a fondness for practical jokes. Also for oranges, modern…
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Gossip Friday: Shoes and a Ham
From January 1933: On last day of “No Man of Her Own” production, Clark Gable and Carole Lombard exchange gag gifts…Carole to Clark was huge ham with picture thereon..Gable to Lombard: mammoth pair of shoes to remind Carole how she tripped and fell during scene.
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{New Article} 1942: Clark Gable’s Page
This article was in the premiere issue of the fan magazine “Stardom,” February 1942. Now, before you go thinking this will be a sad piece as it was published right after Carole Lombard’s death in January 1942, publication was a lot slower back then and when this hit shelves in January, Carole Lombard’s death was imminent or had just occurred. Magazine articles about her death didn’t occur until April of that year. No, there’s not much to this article, but here it is nonetheless. In each issue, Stardom will offer one page to a star to do with as he will. This is to be the stars’ opportunity to tell…
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Gossip Friday: Grounded in Albuquerque
From September 1941: Two old hunting pals spent a few hours in Albuquerque Monday, after their eastbound plane was grounded by bad weather–and Alvarado hotel employees were almost swamped by a rush of autograph seekers. The reasons: one of the hunters is Clark Gable, motion picture star, who was accompanied by his wife, Carole Lombard of the screen. Gable’s hunting pal is H.H. Fleischman, of MGM studios, who also was accompanied by his wife. The party was on its way by air to Manitoba, Can., for 10 days of big game hunting when the TWA plane on which the group was traveling was grounded at Albuquerque by bad weather conditions…
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Gossip Friday: A Real Knockout
From October 1936: Clark Gable has been offered $50,000 to fight Max Baer, former world’s heavyweight champion. He says he may accept it if he finds he has enough time between pictures to do the necessary training. The offer was made by Tom Gallery, veteran California fight promoter, just after Gable had knocked out Allen Pomeroy, former intercollegiate champion, in a fistic battle for the Cosmopolitan production, “Cain and Mabel, … with Marion Davies and Gable co-starred. Simultaneously, it was revealed that Gable had made application to the state boxing commission for a permit to engage in professional boxing. Commenting on the offer to meet Baer, Gable said he could…
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Gossip Friday: Praise for The Queen
From October 1938: To her husband she’s Minnie. To her public she’s Myrna Loy, but to Clark Gable she is The Queen. … “At first I was a little afraid of her,” Gable admitted. “I thought she was mysterious but I soon learned that there was no mystery about her at all. I found her to be down to earth folks, treating the lowliest worker with the same respect and friendliness as those in the upper brackets. Anybody can talk to her and she listens intently. “She is a comfortable person. She has definite ideas and is always nonchalant about them. She also gets what she wants for she has…
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Gossip Friday: Pending Engagement
From August 1938: Clark Gable’s second wife, Rhea, has accepted his financial compromise and Mr. Gable will announce his engagement to Carole Lombard before the end of this year. ___ Not so much, as the divorce was not final until March 1939.