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DEAR Time!!! (For those of you who are not familiar with DEAR, where did you go to school, and nevermind it stands for Drop Everything And Read). A little FYI: The article is from Picture Play, January 1937, however for one reason or another, this author and so-called Lombard pal doesn’t seem to know that [...]

We’ve covered Carole’s week as a press agent on this site before but here is another article she wrote describing the wacky week to Picturegoer Magazine for their August 20, 1938 issue:
FOR the life of me, I can’t see why my week as a press agent should have stirred up any unusual comment.
Motion picture star [...]

Screenland, September 1929
By Erle Hampton
Carol Lombard is the Lastest Sennet Girl to Indulge in Drama
It is an axiom of science that if you travel long enough in one direction on this earth you will ultimately arrive at the point from which you started. But science had nothing to do with the application of this theory [...]

Screen Pictorial, August 1937
Conventions are made to be broken where Carole Lombard is concerned! She has been called “the most startling woman in Hollywood!” says Quintas Page
Carole Lombard can claim to be the most publicized star in Hollywood. The parties which she throws at her beautiful Los Angeles home are the giddiest since Prohibition days. [...]

The following article gives some insight into Carole’s daily life while preparing for the screen. Hope you find it worth your reading.
There are ten steps in the creation of every costume that appears on the screen, it was revealed recently in an interview granted by Travis Banton, studio gown designer.
Take as an example, the [...]

(Monitor Index and Democrat, October 7, 1932, pg.3)
Although I think make-up is very essential to beauty, my hint is not to overdo it.
In daytime, I use a powder of equal parts beige and flesh tints; a tea-rose shade of rouge and a very pale rose lipstick. I never use mascara or eye pencil when going [...]

MOVIE MAGAZINE, MAY 1935
By: Dorothy Kugler
SIMPLICITY-
Conservatism-
Unerring taste-
These qualities have put Carole Lombard on the pinnacle of smartness- they have caused Travis Banton, Paramount’s designer and one of the leading authorities on women’s fashion in the world, to name her as the best-dressed woman in films.
The day of the “clothes horse” in pictures is rapidly drawing [...]

Lombard was a guest columnist for Winchell on August 2, 1938. Here’s what she had to say:

Dear Walter,
I tried to get you on the telephone the other day, but they told me you were on a 30-day vacation. Pretty soft! You see, I went into the press agenting business for a week, and I [...]

Photoplay: February 1935
Foremost hostess in the Hollywood social whirl Carole confesses here her secrets of success
By Julie Lang Hunt
It looks like a long, hard winter for Hollywood hostesses.
You see, Carole Lombard is back in the social scramble, and that’s very bad news for all the party experts in the movie territory.
Last Autumn, when she opened [...]

New York Times; Aug 19, 1933; ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851 - 2005)
She Gets Decree In Nevada, Holding Powell Too Temperamental
Carson City, Nev., August 18 (AP)— Declaring her husband had too much temperament, Carole Lombard, film star, today divorced the actor William Powell.
Mr. Powell was “a very emotional man, cruel and cross [...]