Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick

"...in Public Enemy, the screwball comedy Nothing Sacred with Carole Lombard and Frederic March, The Ox-Box Incident's high-minded indictment..."

July 12, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Peking Opera Blues

Deception and betrayal in culture and politics take center stage in this splendid narrative that shifts between farce and violence, suspense and emotionality.

"...across as a Chinese version cut from the Gracie Allen/Carole Lombard/Betty Boop mold of zaniness – and who is..."

April 23, 1993 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

A Touch of Stardust

Its peek behind the scenes of filming Gone With the Wind make this novel a delectable summer treat

"...The portraits of studio heavy-hitters like Clark Gable's paramour, Carole Lombard, who takes on Julie as her personal assistant,..."

June 12, 2015 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

New Year, Old Films

Mid-20th-century must-sees: Part I

"...on DVD: Criterion, $39.95): Powell again, this time with Carole Lombard in easily one of my all-time favorite films...."

Dec. 30, 2005 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Twentieth Century

"...Directed by: Howard Hawks. Starring: Carole Lombard, John Barrymore, Walter Connolly and Roscoe Karnes. The..."

Jan. 31, 2002 Movie Review by Raoul Hernandez

My Man Godfrey

In this Art Deco screwball comedy, a socialite finds a man while on a scavenger hunt and, thinking that this victim of the Depression needs a job, hires him as the butler for her ditzy household. Hugely popular in its day, this is witty romantic comedy with barbed social commentary.

"...Directed by: Gregory La Cava. Starring: Carole Lombard, William Powell, Gail Patrick, Alice Brady, Eugene Pallette,..."

Jan. 28, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Love Is a Battlefield

The Austin Film Society presents a new free series on screwball comedy.

"...just as snappy as he. Claudette Colbert, Katherine Hepburn, Carole Lombard, Irene Dunne (who co-starred in The Awful Truth):..."

Jan. 11, 2002 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

It Could Happen to You

"...the work of earlier stars, say, Gary Cooper and Carole Lombard. The soundtrack swirls with romantic standards -- “Always,”..."

Aug. 5, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Page Two: And It Was All Right

Notes on a life saved by rock & roll

"...night, I was watching a film on TCM starring Carole Lombard. She was at a nightclub, doing a feathered..."

Oct. 9, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Twentieth Century and Bringing Up Baby

Getting to the gist of screwball's golden age

"...their reteaming with Hawks on His Girl Friday (1940). Carole Lombard begets the line of Hawksian leading ladies in..."

March 25, 2005 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

The Public Enemy, Nothing Sacred, Battleground

William Wellman's larger-than-life legacy: Reviews of Public Enemy, Nothing Sacred, and Battleground.

"...Cook, Mae Clarke.Nothing Sacred D: William Wellman (1937); with Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Charles Winninger, Walter Connolly.Battleground D: William..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Screens Review by Jerry Renshaw

A Few Faves From the Paramount Summer Classic Film Series

Immortal gems of the cinema help us define a classic

"...for the madcaps he works for, especially daughter Irene (Carole Lombard, irrepressible, luminous), palpable and touching. The story, the..."

May 24, 2019 Screens Feature by The Screens Staff

Holiday Viewing: Remember the Night

The key to a merry Christmas is a shoplifter in the house

"...Hands Across the Table, which paired the actor with Carole Lombard for the first of four pictures – and..."

Dec. 18, 2017 Screens Post by Robert Faires

Subverting the Code

New AFS series showcases Barbara Stanwyck at her most sly and seductive

"...exceptional skill with slang. Ginger Rogers, Jean Arthur, and Carole Lombard all said no to the part – too..."

Aug. 1, 2014 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

DVD Watch: 'To Be or Not to Be'

Lubitsch's 1952 film casts Jack Benny as a Nazi?

"...The film stars Jack Benny and Carole Lombard (in her last screen appearance) as Joseph and..."

Aug. 27, 2013 Screens Post by James Renovitch

Austin Film Festival Drops and Gives Us 10

Lineup includes latest from Jonathan Demme, Alexander Payne

"...3) presenting My Man Godfrey, the William Powell and Carole Lombard classic screwball; screenwriter Jim Taylor revisiting his 1999..."

Aug. 19, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Bedside Manner

So I'm trying this new thing …

"...right now, I'm just reveling in the pictures. There's Carole Lombard, all soft-focus-glam in Twentieth Century promo stills. Fred..."

June 12, 2012 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Letters at 3AM: Katniss Everdeen's Grandmothers

Katniss Everdeen's Grandmothers

"...Harlow, Mary Astor, Myrna Loy, Marlene Dietrich, Jean Arthur, Carole Lombard, Rosalind Russell, Ida Lupino, Ginger Rogers, Joan Blondell,..."

May 4, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: Mabel Normand After 100 Years

April 1, 1912, has not gone down in history but deserves to

"...followed Mabel Normand chose archetypes that suited male constructs: Carole Lombard, Katharine Hepburn, and Lucille Ball were ditsy; Clara..."

March 23, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

To Preserve and Project

Moving image archivists in action

"...restoration of the Technicolor screwball comedy Nothing Sacred starring Carole Lombard and Fredric March...."

Nov. 18, 2011 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Letters at 3AM: The Dragon on Sennett's Hill

Hollywood is an electric dragon

"...Charlie Chaplin, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Harry Langdon, Gloria Swanson, Carole Lombard, Frank Capra, Ben Turpin, Ford Sterling, Chester Conklin,..."

March 12, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

That Thing They Do

The Paramount Summer Film Classics' season of stars

May 22, 2009 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Bewitched

AFS Essential Cinema: I Married a Witch: Fredric March's comic curse

"...for Living) down to his boxer's right cross on Carole Lombard in Technicolor fluffer Nothing Sacred, Ben Hecht's warm-up..."

Oct. 10, 2008 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Starting Over

For Tuna creators Jaston Williams and Joe Sears, the fourth time is the charm

"...yards. And I want her in this kind of Carole Lombard outfit.' [Laughs.] And I thought, 'Well, why not?..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

In the Mood for a MomRomCom?

The Alamo Drafthouse is serving up It Happened One Night and Sabrina for Mother's Day

"...At least six different actresses (including Myrna Loy and Carole Lombard) turned down the role of Ellie...."

May 11, 2007 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

The Martin & Lewis Collection: Volume One

"We don't need writers"

"...often took roles essayed by females in the originals (Carole Lombard, Ginger Rogers), but they weren't three-dimensional characters so..."

Feb. 9, 2007 Screens Review by Steve Uhler

The Gary Cooper Collection

Rarely did he singe the big screen with his craft, yet his dimpled impassivity was ready-made for audience personification

"...sticks it to the Nazis with Jack Benny and Carole Lombard (in her last film) hamming it up as..."

June 24, 2005 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Page Two

Looking ahead to SXSW, an appreciation of Sandra Bullock's underrated comic talent, and a goodbye to Advertising Director Pattie Moon.

"...she has real presence. I think a lot of Carole Lombard -- Twentieth Century, My Man Godfrey, Nothing Sacred,..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Column by Louis Black

After a Fashion

It's perfect outside for staying in with a good book ... especially one loaded with lots of pretty pictures ... of semi-nude men ...

"...Bette Davis, Amber Valetta as both Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, Martha Stewart as Veronica Lake, Gena Rowlands as..."

Dec. 22, 2000 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser