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Early Days Productions: Films of Carole Lombard Last updated 08/13/2010
"Nothing Sacred" (1937) Co-starring Fredric March, with a supporting cast that includes Walter Connolly, Charles Winninger, Margaret Hamilton, Hattie McDaniel, Frank Fay and Max Rosenbloom. This film is the perfect showcase for Carole's comedic talents. She plays sweet small town girl Hazel Flagg who is mistakenly diagnosed with radium poisoning. When New York reporter Wally Cook (March) promises to take her to New York for her final days, she accepts. It isn't long before Hazel and Wally fall in love. Will she tell him she's not really dying after all? Hilarious, with everyone in top form. Lombard stated that of her films, this was one of her personal favorites. Edited from Wikipedia.
"My Man Godfrey" (1936) Co-starring William Powell, supported by Alice Brady , Gail Patrick , Eugene Pallette, Mischa Auer and Alan Mowbray. A scatterbrained socialite (Lombard) hires a vagrant (William Powell) as the family butler...but there's more to Godfrey than meets the eye. Hilarious romantic comedy starring the then real life divorced couple, Lombard and Powell. Lombard chose Powell to be her costar to prove that they were still friends. Carole received her only Oscar nomination for this film. Edited from Wikipedia.
"Twentieth Century" (1934) is an American screwball comedy film , set on the 20th Century Limited, a luxury train travelling from Chicago to New York.. Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur adapted their Broadway play of the same name – itself based on the unproduced play Napoleon of Broadway by Charles Bruce Millholland – with uncredited assistance from Gene Fowler and Preston Sturges. The film was directed by Howard Hawks, stars John Barrymore and Carole Lombard, and features Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns and Edgar Kennedy. Along with Frank Capra's "It Happened One Night", also released in 1934, "Twentieth Century" is considered to be a prototype for the screwball comedy. Edited from Wikipedia.
"To Be or Not to Be" (1942) is a comedy film about a troupe of actors in Nazi-occupied Warsaw who use their abilities at disguise and acting to fool the occupying troops. It starred Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Felix Bressart, Lionel Atwill, Stanley Ridges and Sig Ruman. The film flopped upon its release, However, the film has since become a comedy classic. The movie was released 2 months after actress Carole Lombard was killed in an airplane crash. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture. In 1996, "To Be or Not to Be" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Edited from Wikipedia.
"Mr. & Mrs. Smith" (1941) is a screwball comedy film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by Norman Krasna. It starred Carole Lombard and Robert Montgomery. While Hitchcock later claimed he directed the film, his only pure comedy in America, as a favor to Lombard, the files at RKO Radio Pictures show that Hitchcock himself pursued the film. Ann Smith (Carole Lombard) and her lawyer husband David (Robert Montgomery) discover that they are not actually married. This gives them second thoughts as to whether they should stay together or not. Gene Raymond stars as a friend and colleague of David who begins to woo Ann. Both Lombard and Montgomery are pitch perfect in this entertaining film. Edited from Wikipedia.
