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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.…
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Gossip Friday: Surprising Fieldsie
From 1948: “I’m terribly sorry I won’t be able to be there for your birthday.” It was Clark Gable calling Mrs. Walter “Fieldsie” Lang from New York where he had gone to see “Command Decision.” (His next MGM movie). Eighteen hours later Clark walked in on the Langs–wearing a huge grin and carrying a magnum of champagne. “Fieldsie” Lang was Carole Lombard’s closest friend and secretary. Wild horses couldn’t have kept Clark away on that day.
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Gossip Friday: Happy Birthday, Fieldsie
From July 1937: Screwiest birthday cake in Hollywood was the one at the birthday party of Carole Lombard’s pal-secretary-companion “Fieldsie.” “Fieldsie,” who used to work with Carole when both were Mack Sennett bathing beauties, and who has been inseparable from Carole ever since, was presented with the cake by Bob Cobb, owner of the Brown Derby, and Gail Patrick’s husband. Bob’s cake consisted entirely of hamburgers and hot dogs, with a “frosting” of mustard! The little decorations around the side were pickles. Most hilarious guests at the party were, of course, Carole and Clark Gable.