Carole LombardFilmography

Hollywood's Golden Era: Leading Ladies

Synopsis: This documentary highlights the careers and lives of some of the most famous actresses of early cinema. Some of the ladies featured in this video are Bette Davis, Barbara Stanwyck, Carole Lombard, and Joan Crawford. These actresses from Hollywood's Golden Age were different in the types of films Read More

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind

Synopsis: This made-for-cable documentary traces the filming of the imperishable classic Gone with the Wind, from its inception to its triumphant Atlanta premiere in December of 1939. Filmmaker David Hinton interviews as many survivors of the experience as he's able to round up, but the main attraction of Read More

Hollywood Outtakes and Rare Footage

Synopsis: Rather than a compilation of a series of hilarious bloopers, plus scenes of current stars never-before shown to the public, this collection of film clips focuses on a Hollywood of long ago. Stars from Warner Bros. in the 1930s and '40s are shown in out-takes that mainly illustrate their short Read More

The Golden Age of Comedy

Actors: Harry Langdon, Jean Harlow, Will Rogers, Jr.

Synopsis: The first of documentary producer Robert Youngson's feature-length silent comedy compilations, The Golden Age of Comedy began life as a short subject, consisting of vintage clips from the Mack Sennett vaults. When Youngson struck a deal with the Hal Roach studios, he was able to expand the film's Read More

Show Business at War

To Be or Not to Be

Actors: Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Felix Bressart, Lionel Atwill

Synopsis: Ernst Lubitsch directs the 1942 political satire classic To Be or Not to Be, which marked the final screen appearance of comedienne Carole Lombard. In Warsaw at the beginning of WWII, Maria Tura (Lombard) and husband Joseph (Jack Benny) perform anti-Nazi plays with their theater troupe until they Read More

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Actors: Carole Lombard, Robert Montgomery, Gene Raymond, Jack Carson, Philip Merivale

Synopsis: In Hitchcock's rare foray into comedy (courtesy of a wittily risque script by Norman Krasna), Mr. Smith (Robert Montgomery) makes the mistake of telling Mrs. Smith (Carole Lombard) that if he had it to do all over again, he might not have married her. Shortly thereafter, Mr. Smith discovers that Read More

Vigil in the Night

Actors: Carole Lombard, Brian Aherne, Anne Shirley, Julien Mitchell, Robert Coote

Synopsis: A dedicated nurse in a British hospital takes a nervous rookie under her wing. When the new nurse messes up and causes a patient's death, she protects her and loses her job. She eventually finds work at another bigger and more rundown hospital and there falls in love with a handsome young doctor. Read More

They Knew What They Wanted

Actors: Carole Lombard, Charles Laughton, William Gargan, Harry Carey, Frank Fay

Synopsis: Like its predecessors, this third cinema version of Sidney Hoiward's Pulitzer Prize-winning play They Knew What They Wanted suffers from Hollywood censorship. Still, this story of the grim consequence of a misbegotten mail-order marriage has much to offer. Carole Lombard is superb as the waitress Read More

In Name Only

Actors: Carole Lombard, Cary Grant, Kay Francis, Charles Coburn, Helen Vinson, Katherine Alexander

Synopsis: Based on Memory of Love, a novel by Bessie Breuer, In Name Only is soap opera par excellence, blessed with a peerless cast. Carole Lombard plays widow Julie Eden, who meets and falls in love with unhappily married Alec Walker (Cary Grant). Having married Alec solely for his wealth and family Read More

Made for Each Other

Actors: Carole Lombard, James Stewart, Charles Coburn, Lucile Watson, Eddie Quillan

Synopsis: James Stewart and Carole Lombard star in this comedy-drama about the struggles of a young married couple directed by John Cromwell. Stewart and Lombard play a recently married couple, Jane and John Mason. John works as an attorney for the law firm of skinflint Judge Doolittle (Charles Coburn). Read More

Fools for Scandal

Actors: Carole Lombard, Fernand Gravey, Ralph Bellamy, Allen Jenkins, Isabel Jeans

Synopsis: In her only Warner Bros. starring film, Carole Lombard plays a Hollywood movie actress who makes the park-bench acquaintance of an impoverished French marquis (Fernand Gravet). Hoping to coerce Carole into marriage, the nobleman poses as a butler and enters her household. His plan is to compromise Read More

Nothing Sacred

Actors: Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Charles Winninger, Walter Connolly, Sig Rumann

Synopsis: "This is New York, Skyscraper Champion of the World...Where the Slickers and Know-It-Alls peddle gold bricks to each other...And where Truth, crushed to earth, rises again more phony than a glass eye..." With this jaundiced opening title, scripter Ben Hecht introduces his classic comedy Nothing Sacred Read More

Swing High, Swing Low

Actors: Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Charles Butterworth, Jean Dixon, Dorothy Lamour

Synopsis: Swing High Swing Low is a new coat of paint on the old stage play Burlesque, first filmed in 1929 as The Dance of Life. Ex-serviceman Skid Johnson (Fred MacMurray) rises to the uppermost rungs of show business as a bandleader. As his fame swells, so does his head, and he becomes impossibly Read More

True Confession

Actors: Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, John Barrymore, Una Merkel, Porter Hall

Synopsis: Carole Lombard stars as Helen Bartlett, a compulsive liar who always tips the audience to an oncoming whopper by sticking her tongue in her cheek. Helen is married to a Kenneth Bartlett, a scrupulously honest lawyer whose integrity has always held him back professionally. Hoping to help Kenneth Read More

The Princess Comes Across

Actors: Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Douglas Dumbrille, Alison Skipworth, William Frawley

Synopsis: The 1936 comedy-mystery The Princess Comes Across might well have been inspired by a real-life incident during the silent-movie era, in which a crafty San Francisco stenographer hoodwinked the Hollywood elite into believing that she was a Spanish princess. Carole Lombard stars as an alluring Read More

Love Before Breakfast

Actors: Carole Lombard, Preston S. Foster, Janet Beecher, Cesar Romero, Betty Lawford

Synopsis: Love Before Breakfast was the scintillating title Universal chose over Spinster Dinner, the Faith Baldwin novel upon which this airy comedy is based. Carole Lombard is a Park Avenue beauty squired by Preston S. Foster and Cesar Romero. Since neither gentleman is a prize catch, Lombard is fey and Read More

My Man Godfrey

Actors: William Powell, Carole Lombard, Alice Brady, Gail Patrick, Jean Dixon, Eugene Pallette

Synopsis: One of the landmark "screwball" comedies of the 1930s, My Man Godfrey offers the radiant Carole Lombard in her definitive performance as flighty young heiress Irene Bullock, who on a society scavenger hunt stumbles on Godfrey (William Powell), an erudite hobo residing in the city dump. Godfrey Read More

Hands Across the Table

Actors: Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Ralph Bellamy, Astrid Allwyn, Ruth Donnelly

Synopsis: After nearly a decade of nominal "leading lady" roles, Carole Lombard landed her first genuine starring vehicle with Hands Across the Table. Reasoning that the way to a man's heart is through his cuticles, Regi Allen (Carole Lombard) takes a job as a manicurist at a fancy barbershop, unabashedly Read More

Rumba

Actors: George Raft, Carole Lombard, Lynne Overman, Margo, Monroe Owsley

Synopsis: A follow-up to the highly successful Bolero, this lively romantic drama stars George Raft as Joe Martin, a Cuban-American dancer who lives and works in Havana with his lovely partner Goldie Allen until a bad case of varicose veins forces impacts his career. One night, the beauteous gringa heiress Read More

Bolero

Actors: George Raft, Carole Lombard, Sally Rand, Frances Drake, William Frawley

Synopsis: Bolero stars George Raft as Raoul de Barre, an arrogant dancer who rises to fame in the years prior to, during, and after WW I. Raoul is helped along the way by his promoter brother Mike (William Frawley) and scores of willing females, matriculating from two-bit gigolo to the greatest ballroom Read More

The Gay Bride

Actors: Carole Lombard, Chester Morris, ZaSu Pitts, Leo Carrillo, Nat Pendleton

Synopsis: Carole Lombard's only MGM film, The Gay Bride has been cited by some as a precursor to 1988's Married to the Mob -- only without the laughs. Adapted by the usually reliable Samuel and Bella Spewack from Charles Francis Coe's magazine story Repeal, the film charts the misadventures of gold-digging Read More

Lady by Choice

Actors: Carole Lombard, May Robson, Roger Pryor, Walter Connolly, Arthur Hohl

Synopsis: Promoted as a follow-up to Frank Capra's 1933 hit Lady for a Day, Lady by Choice resembles the earlier film only in its choice of leading lady. May Robson plays a drunken derelict who'd once been quite a heartbreaker. Her self-respect is restored when she is asked to pose as fan-dancer Carole Lombard Read More

Now and Forever

Actors: Gary Cooper, Carole Lombard, Shirley Temple, Guy Standing, Charlotte Granville

Synopsis: Ne'er-do-well Gary Cooper is so desperate for quick cash that he's willing to sell the custody rights of his own daughter (Shirley Temple), whom he's never seen. Cooper's girlfriend Carole Lombard is shocked by this callousness and walks out on him, but when Cooper meets his daughter and has a Read More

Twentieth Century

Actors: John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns, Etienne Girardot

Synopsis: Flamboyant, egomaniacal theatrical impresario Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore) transforms chorus girl Mildred Plotka (Carole Lombard) into leading lady Lily Garland, the toast of Broadway. Once she's ascended to stardom, Mildred/Lily cannot abide Jaffe's obsessive control of her life and career. When Read More

We're Not Dressing

Actors: Bing Crosby, Carole Lombard, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Ethel Merman

Synopsis: We're Not Dressing is a bouncy musical-comedy variation of J. M. Barrie's The Admirable Crichton -- complete with a happier ending, as befitting its jaunty star Bing Crosby. Der Bingle is cast as Stephen Jones, a lowly crew member on yacht owned by wealthy Doris Worthington (Carole Lombard). Read More

The Eagle and the Hawk

Actors: Fredric March, Cary Grant, Jack Oakie, Carole Lombard, Guy Standing

Synopsis: Eagle and the Hawk is a "war is hell" saga slightly reminiscent of All Quiet on the Western Front. Fredric March plays a British World War One flying ace suffering from emotional fatigue. March's happy-go-lucky pilot buddy (Cary Grant) tries to help his friend forget his problems by accompanying Read More

No More Orchids

Actors: Carole Lombard, Lyle Talbot, Walter Connolly, Louise Closser Hale, Allen Vincent

Synopsis: A wealthy, but sad young woman falls in love with an impoverished fellow in this bittersweet romance. While her father is only concerned with her happiness, her uncle strongly objects to the match as he wants her to marry into royalty. When the father's bank is on the verge of collapsing, he asks Read More

From Hell to Heaven

Actors: Carole Lombard, Jack Oakie, Adrienne Ames, David Manners, Sidney Blackmer

Synopsis: The world of horse racing provides the backdrop for this episodic drama. Much of the story is set at the Luray Springs Hotel where the characters wait for the running of the Capitol Handicap. The main story focuses upon Colly Tannyer, a pretty young handicapper who must wrangle up $10,000 so she Read More

Brief Moment

Actors: Carole Lombard, Gene Raymond, Monroe Owsley, Donald Cook, Arthur Hohl

Synopsis: A nightclub singer with a strong work ethic marries a freeloading heir in this romantic drama. Trouble ensues when the singer, desiring that her new spouse learn the value of work, convinces his father to cut off his allowance. The ploy does not work, and the young man ends up spending most of his Read More

White Woman

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Charles Laughton, Carole Lombard, Charles Bickford, Kent Taylor, Percy Kilbride

Synopsis: In this campy "adult-oriented" drama from the early 1930s, the ruthless manager of a Malaysian rubber plantation marries a singer facing deportation. He offers her a miserable existence of abuse and loneliness. She finds a bright spot with a handsome plantation worker. Unfortunately, her jealous Read More

Supernatural

Actors: Carole Lombard, Alan Dinehart, Vivienne Osborne, Randolph Scott, H.B. Warner

Synopsis: This atmospheric suspense film from the makers of White Zombie marked an unusual turn for glamorous Carole Lombard as heiress Roma Courtenay, who is approached by phony psychic Paul Bavian (Alan Dinehart), who claims to bear an important message from her recently deceased brother. After attending Read More

No Man of Her Own

Actors: Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, Dorothy Mackaill, Grant Mitchell, George Barbier

Synopsis: No Man of Her Own represented the only time that Clark Gable and Carole Lombard co-starred in the same picture (at the time the film was made, both were married to other people; their romance and subsequent marriage was several years in the offing). Gable plays a crooked cardsharp who takes it on Read More

Virtue

Actors: Carole Lombard, Pat O'Brien, Mayo Methot, Jack LaRue, Ward Bond

Synopsis: The title Virtue should be a good tip-off that the central character is a step below virtuous. Carole Lombard, still not established as a comedienne in 1932, plays a streetwalker seeking an escape from her sordid existence. She meets Pat O'Brien, one of the few men who doesn't expect a quick fix Read More

No One Man

Actors: Carole Lombard, Ricardo Cortez, Paul Lukas, Julie Compton, George Barbier

Synopsis: Beautiful but impractical socialite Penelope Newbold (Carole Lombard) has convinced herself that "the perfect marriage" is an impossible concept. After all, she reasons, no one man could possess all the virtues required for an ideal husband. Thus, she divides her time between dependable Read More

Sinners in the Sun

Actors: Carole Lombard, Chester Morris, Adrienne Ames, Alison Skipworth, Walter Byron

Synopsis: Paramount Pictures seldom fully utilized the talents of contract player Carole Lombard, as witness such tedious programmers as Sinners in the Sun. Lombard plays Doris Blake, an elegant fashion model who spurns her auto-mechanic suitor Jimmy Martin (Chester Morris) in favor of married millionaire Read More

Ladies' Man

Actors: William Powell, Kay Francis, Carole Lombard, Gilbert Emery, Olive Tell

Synopsis: A Rupert Hughes novel was the source for this soulless but sophisticated comedy-drama. William Powell is a charming roue who lives off the gifts given to him by lonely married women. In exchange, he escorts them around town (among other services) when their husbands aren't looking. The only woman Powell Read More

Man of the World

Actors: William Powell, Carole Lombard, Wynne Gibson, Guy Kibbee, Lawrence Gray

Synopsis: Still in his "sophisticated cad" period, William Powell essays the title role in Man of the World. Powell plays a smooth extortionist who preys upon wayfaring Americans in Paris. He woos lonely wives and wives-to-be, then threatens them with blackmail unless they sustain his lifestyle. One of his Read More

Up Pops the Devil

Actors: Stuart Erwin, Carole Lombard, Lilyan Tashman, Norman Foster

Synopsis: In this romance, an aspiring writer encounters a wealthy publisher who gives him an advance on the first two chapters of his book. Meanwhile, his wife helps out by becoming a chorus girl in a nightclub revue. Instead of enjoying the peace and quiet of home life, the poor writer finds himself Read More

I Take This Woman

Actors: Gary Cooper, Carole Lombard, Helen Ware, Lester Vail, Charles Trowbridge

Synopsis: Based on a Mary Roberts Rinehart novel, I Take This Woman stars Carole Lombard as the spoiled daughter of a wealthy rancher. Lombard impulsively marries cowhand Gary Cooper, a poverty-stricken employee of her father. Cooper insists that they live on his income in a tiny shack; Lombard gives this Read More

It Pays to Advertise

Actors: Norman Foster, Carole Lombard, Eugene Pallette, Lucien Littlefield

Synopsis: A remake of a 1919 silent film based on the stage farce by Roi Cooper Megrue and Walter C. Hackett, the light romantic comedy It Pays to Advertise stars comedienne Carol Lombard in one of her early Paramount talkies. Rodney Martin (Norman Foster) is the son of wealthy soap manufacturer Cyrus Read More

The Arizona Kid

Actors: Warner Baxter, Mona Maris, Carole Lombard, Theodore Von Eltz

Synopsis: Warner Baxter, who had won an Academy Award for playing the Cisco Kid in In Old Arizona (1929), is at it again, fake Spanish accent and all, in this fanciful Western filmed on-location at Utah's Zion National Park. Cisco in anything but name, The Arizona Kid loves all the ladies in Rockville, UT Read More

Fast and Loose

Actors: Miriam Hopkins, Carole Lombard, Frank Morgan, Charles Starrett, Henry Wadsworth

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1925, Avery Hopwood's stage play The Best People was refashioned by Preston Sturges as the Miriam Hopkins vehicle Fast and Loose in 1930. Hopkins (in her film debut) and Henry Wadsworth are cast as Marion and Bertie Lenox, the footloose, prodigal offspring of wealthy Read More

Dynamite

Actors: Conrad Nagel, Kay Johnson, Charles Bickford, Julia Faye, Muriel McCormac

Synopsis: Filmed in 1929 and released early in 1930, Dynamite was Cecil B. DeMille's first all-talking feature. As one observer has noted, this 128-minute opus has enough plots for seven pictures. The basic storyline here involves spoiled heiress Cynthia Crothers (Kay Johnson) who will lose her fortune if Read More

Safety in Numbers

Actors: Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Kathryn Crawford, Josephine Dunn, Carole Lombard, Geneva Mitchell

Synopsis: In this lightweight musical comedy, an aspiring songwriter tries to make it big on Broadway. Later his uncle decides to show him all about the world and so hires three gorgeous show girls to take him around the Big Apple. All three of the opportunistic young lasses find themselves attracted to the Read More

Matchmaking Mamas

High Voltage

Actors: Carole Lombard

Synopsis: In one of her first talking pictures, Carole Lombard played a girl crook falling in love with a handsome lineman (William Boyd) while marooned during a snow storm. Crossing the High Sierras in a bus, a group of travelers find themselves stranded in a small village and at the mercy of Bill Read More

Big News

Actors: Robert Armstrong, Carole Lombard, Sam Hardy, Tom Kennedy, Louis Payne

Synopsis: A primitive early talkie from Pathé, this crime drama starred relative newcomers Robert Armstrong and Carole Lombard, the latter still spelling her first name Carol. They play husband and wife, she threatening divorce unless he devotes more of his time to their marriage. In reality, Armstrong is Read More

The Racketeer

Actors: Robert Armstrong, Carole Lombard, Roland Drew, Jeanette Loff, John Loder

Synopsis: This late-20s gangster movie features Carole Lombard as a young gal who agrees to marry a smooth-talking gangster in exchange for the mob man's pledge to arrange a big-time concert appearance for her violinist boyfriend. The only thing that can save the day for the mis-aligned lovers is a shootout Read More

Ned McCobb's Daughter

Actors: Irene Rich, Theodore Roberts, Robert Armstrong, George Barraud, Carole Lombard

Synopsis: This very early talkie stars Irene Rich as the daughter of gruff old ferryboat captain Theodore Roberts. Rich runs a restaurant out of her house, while her husband George Barraud collects the ferry's tolls. Unbeknownst to Rich, Barraud is allowing his bootlegger brother Robert Armstrong to use the Read More

The Bicycle Flirt

Me Gangster

Mack and Carole

The Beach Club

Run, Girl, Run

The Swim Princess

The Girl from Nowhere

The Campus Carmen

The Campus Vamp

His Unlucky Night

Divine Sinner

Actors: Vera Reynolds, Nigel de Brulier, Ernest Hilliard, John Peters, Carole Lombard

Synopsis: A former leading lady for director Cecil B. DeMille, vivacious Vera Reynolds was experiencing somewhat of a career slump when she starred in this romantic melodrama from poverty row producer Trem Carr. She played Lillia, a small town girl who gets involved with the wrong crowd in Paris. Arrested Read More

Show Folks

Actors: Carole Lombard, Eddie Quillan, Lina Basquette, Robert Armstrong, Crauford Kent, Bessie Barriscale

Synopsis: The ebullient Eddie Quillan made his talking-picture bow in the Pathe part-talkie Show Folks. After a chance meeting with counter-girl Rita Carey (Lina Basquette), vaudeville hoofer Eddie Kehoe (Quillan) invites Rita to join his act. On the eve of their all-important Broadway debut, however, Eddie Read More

Me, Gangster

Actors: June Collyer, Don Terry, Anders Randolf, Al Hill

Synopsis: Me, Gangster was director Raoul Walsh's third 1928 film -- and, according to some historians, the blueprint for such future Walsh crime dramas as Me and My Gal, The Roaring Twenties and White Heat. Told in the form of a diary, the story details the rise and fall of gangster boss Jimmy Williams Read More

Best Man

Power

Actors: Joan Bennett, Carole Lombard, William "Hopalong" Boyd, Jacqueline Logan, Alan Hale

Synopsis: Power is a rubber-stamp adventure flick from the very prolific Paramount Pictures. William Boyd and Alan Hale star as a pair of dam workers who, despite their strong friendship, duke it out on a regular basis. But when the dam threatens to burst, the battling buddies work side by side to rescue Read More

The Girl From Everywhere

Synopsis: Although it ran a very scant four reels (it was actually 3,303 feet in length), comedy producer Mack Sennett marketed this film as a feature. In spite of its short length, it did have quite a bit going for it, not the least being the scenes of the Sennett bathing beauties, which were shot in Read More

Smith's Pony

Hold That Pose

Road to Glory

Actors: May McAvoy

Synopsis: After several years' experience as a screenwriter, Howard Hawks made his directorial debut with Fox Films' The Road to Glory. Though based on a story by Hawks, the film that emerged bore little resemblance to the director's original concept. Judith (May McCoy) and David (Leslie Fenton) are a pair Read More

Dick Turpin

Actors: Tom Mix, Kathleen Myers, Philo McCullough, James Marcus, Lucille Hutton

Synopsis: Cowboy ace Tom Mix allowed himself a change of pace with this costume adventure produced by Fox. Mix plays the legendary British highwayman, who after robbing nasty Lord Churlton (Philo McCullough) learns that the nobleman is to be married to innocent Lady Alice Brookfield (Kathleen Myers), a Read More

Marriage in Transit

Synopsis: This melodrama featured Edmund Lowe in a dual role, and a very young Carole Lombard. Cyril Gordon (Lowe) joins the secret service, and since he is a dead ringer for international crook Harry Holden (also Lowe), he is assigned the task of retrieving a stolen government code from Holden's gang. He Read More

Hearts and Spurs

Actors: Buck Jones, Carole Lombard, Freeman Wood

Synopsis: The Fox company signed young Carole Lombard (billing her "Carol") to a contract after she tested for and won the female lead opposite Edmund Lowe in Marriage in Transit (1925). This average Buck Jones western was her follow-up. Carole plays a young prairie flower whose brother (Freeman Wood) is on Read More

Durand of the Bad Lands

Actors: Carole Lombard

Synopsis: A remake of a 1917 Dustin Farnum Western, Durand of the Bad Lands starred Buck Jones in the title role, a rancher falsely accused of a crime actually committed by Sheriff Clem Allison (Malcolm Waite) and his henchman Pete Garson (Fred De Silva). In his attempt to clear himself, Durand comes across Read More

Gold and the Girl

Synopsis: The Fox company, who championed Buck Jones as Western star Tom Mix's possible heir, began cutting back a bit with Gold and the Girl. Jones was popular enough, but by 1925, there was a glut on the market due to scores of cheaply made independent Westerns. This time around, Jones plays Dan Prentiss Read More

A Perfect Crime

Actors: Monte Blue, Jacqueline Logan, Stanton Heck, Hardee Kirkland

Synopsis: The homely but likable Monte Blue teams up with director Allan Dwan for this pleasing comedy-drama, adapted from a short story that ran in the Saturday Evening Post. Wally Griggs (Blue) is your classic meek, mild bank messenger, destined to a threadbare life of earning 63 dollars a month. At least Read More

These Girls Won't Talk

Synopsis: "Campus Carmen," "As Luck Would Have It" and "Her Bridal Nightmare" are the silent short stories featured in this series from producer Mack Sennett. Performances include silent screen stars Carole Lombard, Colleen Moore and Betty Compson. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More