NYC: Carole Lombard Film Festival

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The New York Film Forum is bringing sexy back with 12 full days of Carole Lombard on the big screen. We are literally speechless at the extravaganza they are pulling off for our Lombard.

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P.S. Thank you to Anthony V. for the heads up! xoxoxo

NOV 21/22 FRI/SAT>> 2 FILMS FOR 1 ADMISSION

MY MAN GODFREY

(1936, Gregory La Cava) Dizzy heiress Lombard wins the scavenger hunt by producing bum William Powell as a “forgotten man” — then hires him as her butler. “‘Screwball’ was coined when Lombard did this screwiest society girl ever seen.” – Peter Bogdanovich.
2:45, 6:15, 9:45

TWENTIETH CENTURY

(1934, Howard Hawks) Theatrical svengali John Barrymore and rebellious protégée Lombard (in the picture that made her the “Duse of daffy comedy”) slug it out aboard the Chicago-New York run of the Twentieth Century Ltd. — machine gun dialogue courtesy Hecht & MacArthur.
1:00, 4:30, 8:00

NOV 23 SUN>> 2 FILMS FOR 1 ADMISSION

TRUE CONFESSION

(1937, Wesley Ruggles) “You’ll fry!” taunts courtroom hanger-on John Barrrymore, as compulsive liar Carole finds her best bet to beat a murder rap is to mendaciously plead guilty, even as lawyer/hubby Fred MacMurray plans her defense. “Best comedy of 1937.” – Graham Greene.
2:55, 6:30, 10:15

HANDS ACROSS THE TABLE

(1935, Mitchell Leisen) On the prowl for a wealthy mate, manicurist Lombard gets stuck with formerly rich Fred MacMurray as a roommate, awaiting his own lucrative marriage with the “pineapple king” heiress. Plus Mack Sennett short The Campus Vamp (1928), with live piano accompaniment by Peter Mintun.
1:00, 4:35, 8:20

NOV 24 MON>> 2 FILMS FOR 1 ADMISSION

VIRTUE

(1932, Edward Buzzell) That’s what Carole, on the run from a 90-day solicitation rap, is looking for with cabbie Pat O’Brien, but slimeball Jack LaRue suckers her into a con game topped with a murder charge.
2:25, 6:35, 10:45

WHITE WOMAN

(1933, Stuart Walker) “Alone among outcasts who hadn’t seen a white woman in ten years!” … and she turns out to be Carole Lombard! — but Charles Laughton steals scenes wholesale as cockney “King of the River.”
3:45, 7:55

SINNERS IN THE SUN

(1932, Alexander Hall) Model Lombard and mechanic Chester Morris split up, then decide to go for it, Carole finding a wealthy married man and Chester servicing both a limo and its rich owner. With a pre-stardom Cary Grant as a heartless playboy driving his lover to suicide.
1:00, 5:10, 9:20

NOV 25 TUES>> 2 FILMS FOR 1 ADMISSION

NO MAN OF HER OWN

(1932, Wesley Ruggles) On-the-lam gambler Clark Gable hides out in sleepy Glendale, marrying local librarian Carole on a coin flip. Gable & Lombard’s only screen pairing: love and marriage came 7 years later.
1:20, 4:35, 7:50

NOW AND FOREVER

(1934, Henry Hathaway) International jewel thieves Gary Cooper and Carole Lombard mull going straight, but there’s a complication — Cooper’s daughter Shirley Temple.
3:00, 6:15, 9:30

NOV 26 WED>> 2 FILMS FOR 1 ADMISSION

BOLERO

(1934, Wesley Ruggles) Ex-coal miner George Raft moves from Jersey beer garden to swank Paris boîte, as he and dance partner Lombard heat up the screen tangoing to Ravel’s insistent melody.
2:45, 6:00, 9:15

WE’RE NOT DRESSING

(1934, Norman Taurog) When spoiled heiress Lombard’s yacht is wrecked on a desert island, previously-fired singing sailor Bing Crosby takes charge. With Ethel Merman, Ray Milland and Burns & Allen, too.
1:10, 4:25, 7:40

NOV 27 THURS>> 3 FILMS FOR 1 ADMISSION

FROM HELL TO HEAVEN

(1933, Erle C. Kenton) Grand Hotel at the races, as vamp Lombard and other down-on-their-luck gamblers place long-shots. With Jack Oakie.
3:50, 8:00

LADIES’ MAN

(1931, Lothar Mendes) Gotham gigolo William Powell crosses one husband too many, as he both squires socialite Kay Francis and seduces her daughter Lombard. Screenplay by Herman (Citizen Kane) Mankiewicz.
1:00, 5:10, 9:20

MAN OF THE WORLD

(1931, Richard Wallace) When Parisian scandal sheet operator William Powell hits up visiting soft coal baron Guy Kibbee for hush money, his niece turns out to be Carole Lombard (the soon-to-be real-life Mrs. Powell).
2:25, 6:35

NOV 28/29 FRI/SAT>> 2 FILMS FOR 1 ADMISSION

TO BE OR NOT TO BE

(1942, Ernst Lubitsch) “I’d like to present the Polish case in a more suitable dress.” With Lombard (in her last film role) as his Ophelia, Jack Benny — as Joseph Tura, “that great, great Polish actor” — must suffer Gestapo man Sig Rumann’s dramatic criticism. “Lombard at her apex, Lubitsch at his most inspired.” – Andrew Sarris.
2:55, 6:20, 9:50

NOTHING SACRED

(1937, William Wellman) Carole’s Hazel Flagg learns she isn’t dying of radium exposure, but why give up that all-expenses-paid trip to Gotham courtesy Human Interest-mongering reporter Frederic March? Written by Ben Hecht, produced by David O. Selznick — in Technicolor.
1:15, 4:45, 8:15

NOV 30 SUN>> 2 FILMS FOR 1 ADMISSION

MR. & MRS. SMITH

(1941, Alfred Hitchcock) Even after Carole discovers she likes the idea that her long-battling marriage turns out to be void, ex-spouse Robert Montgomery still keeps running into her. “Underrated…a hint of how well Lombard and Hitch might have worked together.” – David Thomson.
1:00, 4:20, 7:40

THE PRINCESS COMES ACROSS

(1936, William K. Howard) Cruising from France to NYC, Carole’s “Princess Olga of Sweden” encounters bandleader Fred MacMurray, as the bodies start dropping amidst a sleuths’-convention-bound gaggle of detectives.
2:50, 6:10, 9:30

DEC 1 MON>>3 FILMS FOR 1 ADMISSION

UP POPS THE DEVIL

(1931, A. Edward Sutherland) It’s a one-year trial marriage for Carole and writer wannabe Norman Foster, but there are problems on their anniversary: the attentions of local vamp Lilyan Tashman and Carole’s too-familiar friendship with his potential publisher.
1:00, 5:15, 9:30

FAST AND LOOSE

(1930, Fred Newmeyer) With adaptation and dialogue by Preston Sturges, a society melodrama “memorable for the curious tension between Miriam Hopkins’ debut as a rowdy society girl and Lombard’s relatively subdued sass as a poor chorus girl” (Andrew Sarris).
2:30, 6:45

IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE

(1931, Frank Tuttle) When soap king Eugene Pallette kicks out son Norman Foster for planning to marry secretary Lombard, that’s the last straw — dammit, he’ll get a job!
3:55, 8:10

DEC 2 TUES>> 2 FILMS FOR 1 ADMISSION

IN NAME ONLY

(1939, John Cromwell) Wealthy Cary Grant finds love with widowed single mother Carole Lombard — only trouble is, he’s still married to icy Kay Francis. “Grant and Lombard in their most adventurous prime.” – Andrew Sarris.
1:00, 4:40, 8:20

MADE FOR EACH OTHER

(1939, John Cromwell) After marrying Lombard against the wishes of boss Charles Coburn, James Stewart finds himself sidelined at work and browbeaten by meddling mom Lucile Watson.
2:50, 6:30, 10:10