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{New Article} 1942: Gable’s “Hermit Wife”
Here is a short little article that appeared in the February 1942 edition of Screen Guide magazine. Sadly, by the time this issue hit newsstands, the spirited subject of the article would be dead. “Hermit” is a word that conjured up pictures of wizened characters with long white beards, living solitary lives in caves or tree-tops. Carole Lombard is blonde and beautiful; her “cave” is a 22-acre ranch in San Fernando Valley; and far from being alone, Carole is married to Clark Gable. But when you consider the sort of person Carole used to be, her present life does seem like complete seclusion. She used to make headlines on…
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Gossip Friday: Robbed!
From April 23, 1938: Carole Lombard told police today a watch given her by Clark Gable was among $25,000 jewelry stolen from her home.
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{New Article} Carole Lombard by Frederick Othman Part 3
Here is the final portion of Frederick Othman’s series on Carole Lombard, published on January 21, 1942. In this segment we learn she buried shrunken skulls in her yard! Carole Lombard and Gable Gave Up ‘Flossy’ Dwelling Happy Film Couple Lived in Simple Home Without Swimming Pool or Guest Rooms When Carole Lombard married Clark Gable in 1939, there was no whoop-de-do. They drove to Kingman, Ariz., in the coupe of their good friend and press agent, Otto Winkler, said their vows, and came home again. Then they held a reception at Carole’s house. The only guests were their old friends, the newspaper reporters. Everybody had a big time, host…
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{New Article} Carole Lombard by Frederick Othman Part 2
Continuing from yesterday’s post, here is part two of United Press Hollywood Correspondent Frederick Othman’s series on Carole Lombard, published January 20, 1942. Miss Lombard: Actress Liked to Pay Taxes Insisted on Huge Salary Because U.S. Took 75 Per Cent It will be a long time before Hollywood stops recalling and chuckling over the escapades of Carole Lombard, the girl who admitted she was crazy as a fox. She was scatter-brained–on purpose. She developed a vocabulary that would make a sailor blush–and for good reason. She was Hollywood’s leading screwball–and it made her $400,000 a year. Miss Lombard had been the lush and curvesome heroine of many a torrid drama…
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{New Article} Carole Lombard by Frederick Othman Part 1
Over the next three days, I’ll be sharing the three-part series United Press Hollywood correspondent Frederick Othman wrote after Carole Lombard’s death in January 1942. This first piece was syndicated in newspapers across the country on January 19, 1942. Carole’s Off-Screen Fun Equaled Screwball Roles Writer Friend Describes Pranks, Career of Actress; Carole Also Had Serious Side Of the press corps in the movie capital, none knew Carole Lombard better than Frederick C. Othman, United Press Hollywood correspondent. He reported her professional career, and, in addition, was a close friend. Therefore, he is particularly qualified to write of her life and her personality. The first of his three dispatches on…
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Gossip Friday: Making an Apperance
From January 1939: Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, making their first public appearance since Mrs. Maria Gable announced she planned to sue for divorce, attended a preview last night, smiling broadly as they pushed through the throngs outside the theater. Miss Lombard clung tightly to Gable’s arm as the crowd pressed in. The preview was “Idiot’s Delight,” starring Gable and Norma Shearer.
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Happy Birthday, Carole Lombard
Carole Lombard, that zany blonde actress who happened to marry Clark Gable and was arguably the love of his life, was born 108 years ago today in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Here’s some newspaper blurbs from her birthday over the years her and Clark were together: 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 match –it exploded. Carole sat down–the chair collapsed. 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…
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Rare Carole Lombard Photos
Want to see some rare Carole Lombard photos? Happy to oblige. Here are some I uncovered in vintage scrapbooks. If you follow the site on Facebook, you may have seen some of these already, but who wouldn’t want a second look at the divine Miss Lombard? And sorry about the watermarks, but don’t blame me, blame the people who steal photos that cost me money from my website and don’t give me any credit! How about this amazing color shot? Having some fun on the set of her film “Vigil in the Night.” Hey, she even got a goofy look out of Charles Laughton while filming “They Knew What…
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It’s Carole Lombard Month!
Yes, folks, it’s that time again: Carole Lombard month on DearMrGable.com! Stay tuned for Carole Lombard all month long!
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Gossip Friday: Letter from Movita
From November 1941: Remember Movita, who played in “Mutiny on the Bounty” and who afterwards married Jack Doyle and went to live in England? Clark Gable and Carole Lombard have just received a letter from her. She says she was injured slightly in an air raid last October but that her narrowest escape was more recent–a bomb struck the back of a theater while she and Doyle where on stage.