Tala Birell And Thelma Todd At Santa Monica Pier

Tala Birell and George Murphy with Thelma Todd and her mother on the boardwalk at the Santa Monica Pier.

This had mistakenly been labeled "Carole Lombard and Thelma Todd", and I had repeated that here.

From the "Thelma Todd Fan Group" on facebook:

William Drew:
Concerned as I am with accuracy, it's my not altogether pleasant duty to disclose that the description of a photo as showing Thelma with Carole Lombard is in error. That's Thelma, of course, her mother and George Murphy at the 1935 San Diego Exposition but the other lady is Tala Birell, not Carole. This came to my attention yesterday when I was looking through early 1935 newspapers online for items on Thelma and I found this picture identifying the actress on the left as Tala Birell. Furthermore, Michelle Morgan in her 2015 biography of Thelma had correctly identified her as Tala. Yet despite this, in 2019 several sites, including Vince Paterno's excellent "Carole & Co.," began saying it was Carole in this photo with Thelma, a description carried over into posts here. Yes, especially from that angle, Tala does bear a resemblance to Carole, but clearly the photographers and journalists responsible for the picture and accompanying information knew the identity of everyone in the photo. Unfortunately, there seem to be no known photos of Thelma and Carole together--not that I could find, anyway, from a perusal of online sources.



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The Black Eye Gag

This ad shows Carole Lombard with a black eye.

This is the movie that this poster was for. The one where the unfortunate woman has that unsightly bruise around her unhappy eyeball.

It wasn't the first time the blackeye gag was pulled, but it was probably the most heavily promoted instance of it in the history of the movies.


Violence against women in the comics:
benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2012/03/violence-against-women-in-comics.htm


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CAROLE LOMBARD: TWENTIETH CENTURY STAR By Michelle Morgan

Michelle Morgan, author of THE ICE CREAM BLONDE, has written a new book about Carole Lombard. I haven't read it, but I knew about it prior to it's publication, since she mentioned it while we were working on the one on Thelma Todd. Here is a little about the Carole Lombard book.

Reblogged from
https://www.amazon.com/Carole-Lombard-Twentieth-Century-Michelle-Morgan/dp/075096605X

Carole Lombard was the very opposite of the typical 1930s starlet—she worked hard, took no prisoners and had a great passion for life. From the outside, her life was one of glamour and fun, yet she endured heartache and despair. As a child, her mother moved Carole and her brothers away from their beloved father. Carole began a film career, only to have it cut short after a devastating car accident. Picking herself back up, she was rocked by the accidental shooting of her lover; a failed marriage to William Powell; and the heartache of infertility during her marriage to Clark Gable. Lombard put on a brave face and marched forward. Sadly her life was cut short in a plane crash so catastrophic that pieces of the plane are still buried in the mountain where it happened, 75 years ago. This is the story of a woman whose remarkable life and controversial death continue to enthrall.


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Movie Star Recipies

Some familiar faces and their favorite foods from WHAT ACTORS EAT - WHEN THEY EAT,  ( 1939 ) by actors Kenneth Harlan and Rex Lease.  The book contains over 200 pages of recipes, and accompanying each is a photo and a signature facsimile.

Reblogged from http://billcappello.blogspot.com/

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Cary Grant With Carole Lombard And Marlene Dietrich

Here is a picture of Cary Grant with Carole Lombard and Marlene Dietrich. It's a little after his earliest movies, but everyone still looks about the same. Richard Barthelmess costarred with Thelma Todd in THE NOOSE in the silent era.

Carole Lombard, Cary Grant, Marlene Dietrich, and Richard Barthlemess snapped during a lull in merriment at the party given by Carole, in the Fun House, at Venice, California, which she had rented for the occasion." (Original caption, 1935)



Thelma Todd and Richard Barthelmess:
http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2015/05/thelma-todd-and-richard-barthelmess.html

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SAFETY IN NUMBERS Photo

From Richard Finegan on facebook.

Geneva at the right with Buddy Rogers in the 1930 Paramount feature SAFETY IN NUMBERS. Carole Lombard and Virginia Bruce in back, and Josephine Dunn next to Geneva. Kathryn Crawford on the left.

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Movie Star Autographs

A collection of 30's movie star autographs that were pasted onto a page in a scrapbook. Signers include Joe Penner, Dorothy Dell, Carole Lombard, Warner Oland, Lilyan Tashman, Moran And Mack, Emil Jannings, and John Barrymore

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ebay seller's description:

This auction is for TEN old historic c.1930's neatly cut from larger pages and pasted, glued to old scrap book page on one side. There are very famous movie stars, musicians. There are: Dorothy Dell , Carole Lombard , Thelma Todd , Two Black Crows Moran & Mack , Emil Jannings , Warner Oland , Lilyan Tashman , Joe Penner , John Barrymore. THERE IS ONE AUTOGRAPH I CAN NOT IDENTIFY... Jack L???. I YOU CAN IDENTIFY PLEASE LET ME KNOW SO I CAN ADD THIS NAME TO MY DESCRIPTION



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Carole Lombard in RUN, GIRL RUN

This is one of my favorite Carole Lombard comedies, a silent movie she made for Mack Sennett in 1928. She was more famous in the sound era, but I didn't always like the movies she made in that period.












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Merry Christmas

From-


                                                              Mary Pickford

                                                                    Louise Brooks

 

 

Anna May Wong

                                                                     Myrna Loy

 

 

 

Carole Lombard

 

 

 

Lois Moran

 

 

 

Loretta Young

 

 

 

Lupe Velez

 

 

 

 

Grace Bradley

 

 

 

 

Priscilla Lane

 

 

 

ClaireTrevor

 

 

 

 

Diana Lynn

 

 

 

Jane Greer

 

 

 

Virginia Grey

 

 

 

 

Ann Miller

 

 

 

 

Olga San Juan

 

 

 

 

Anne Jeffreys and Robert Sterling

 

 

 

Betty Grable

 

 

 

 

Marilyn Monroe

 

 

 

 

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