Love Hollywood Style: Carole Lombard.

Carole Lombard, may have been one of the most beautiful woman to perform on the silver screen. She performed in over 20 films. In October 1930, Lombard met William Powell. They had worked together in the films: Man of the World and Ladies' Man. Unlike many of Lombard's other suitors, Powell was sophisticated.

He loved her humor and charm. They married on June 26, 1931. Lombard commented to fan magazines that she did not believe their sixteen-year age difference would be a problem, but friends felt they were missed matched.

They divorced in 1933, but remained good friends and worked together in the film, My Man Godfrey.

During this time she carried on relationships with actors:

Gary Cooper, was paired with and had a personal relationship with Carole Lombard in, I Take This Woman (1931). A romance film directed by Marion Gering. Based on the 1927 novel Lost Ecstacy by Mary Roberts Rinehart, the film is about a wealthy New York socialite who falls in love and marries a cowboy while staying at her father's ranch out West.

After her father disinherits her, and after a year of living the life of a cowboy's wife, she leaves her husband and returns back east to her family. The film may remind you of the 1940 film, I Take This Woman, starring Spencer Tracy and Hedy Lamarr.

Carole began a relationship with George Raft, while performing in the musical drama, Bolero (1934) . The movie was a rare chance for Raft to star and to play a dancer, which had been his profession in New York City, rather than a gangster. The film takes its title from the Maurice Ravel composition Bolero (1928).

The film opens shortly before World War I. Raoul De Baere is a dancer from New York City, wanting to European nightclub circuit by storm. He tries to get Annette (famed exotic dancer Sally Rand) to be his dancing partner, but she refuses. He hires Helen Hathaway and choreographs a very athletic routine to be accompanied by Ravel's Bolero (an anachronism, as the composition was not written until 1928). He falls in love with Helen, but she marries Lord Robert Coray.

Raoul serves in the United States Army in World War I and returns with a weakened heart. He does not let that stop him and opens a  nightclub in Paris, and hires Annette (now looking for work) as his new partner.

On the opening night,  he finds her to drunk to perform. As luck would have it, Helen is in the audience and agrees to fill in. He overdoes his athletic routine, collapses and dies.

The film predates the Hays Code, and at least two scenes would have been banned by the code:

In one scene: George Raft tells Carole Lombard, to audition in his hotel room, in her underwear and she does.

Later, Rand performs her famous fan dance, in which she hides her nudity with two properly positioned ostrich feather fans. A double was used for Lombard in many of the shots in the dance scenes. Although regarded as a musical, the film has no singing.

Later, Lombard met and began a serious relationship with singer, violinist and actor, most famous for his signature tune "You Call It Madness, But I Call It Love", his compositions "Prisoner of Love" and "Too Beautiful For Words". Columbo reportedly proposed marriage, but was killed in a shooting accident at the age of 26.

Lombard's most famous relationship came in 1936 when she became involved with Clark Gable. They had worked together  in the film, No Man of Her Own(1932), but at the time, Lombard was still married to Powell.

Unbeknownst to each other they had worked as extras on a silent epic film, The Johnstown Flood(1926). When Gable and Lombard, met again at the Mayfair Ball, of which Lombard was hostess, their romance began to take off.

Gable was married at the time to oil heiress Ria Langham, and the affair was kept quiet. The situation proved a problem in Gable accepting the role of Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind. MGM head Louis B. Mayer, made a deal for a reluctant Gable by giving him money to settle a divorce agreement with Langham and marry Lombard.

Gable divorced Langham on March 7, 1939 and proposed to Lombard at the Brown Derby. On March 29, 1939, during a break in production on Gone with the Wind, Gable and Lombard drove out to Kingman, Arizona and were married in a quick ceremony. They bought a ranch in Encino, California previously owned by director Raoul Walsh. They lived there until Lombard's untimely passing.

 

Dueling Divas Blogathon: In Name Only(1939).

In Name Only(1939). Cast: Cary Grant, Carole Lombard and Kay Francis. Based on the 1935 novel Memory of Love by Bessie Breuer. This movie was intended to be a reunion for Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn, but following the failure of Bringing Up Baby at the box office, Hepburn left RKO after being named "Box Office Poison". Carole Lombard was brought in as her replacement.

Alec Walker, finds himself trapped in a loveless marriage, to a woman who married him only for his money. When he meets Julie, a widow and her daughter Ellen, he quickly falls in love with her.



His wife Maida, has Alec's parents convinced that she is the perfect wife, so when, Alec asks for a divorce, Maida, says that she will sail to Paris to stay with his parents, hoping to prolong the divorce.

Alec, follows Julie to New York, where he proposes to her, Julie accepts. After, returning home on Christmas Eve, Maida promises Julie, that she will never give Alec a divorce, and if he files for one, she will sue Julie for alienation of affections and have her daughter testify in court against her.

After which, Alec and Julie decide to go their own way. It is not long before Alec, becomes very ill with pneumonia. When the doctor says that his only the hope is to be with with Julie, she comes up with the lie that Maida has agreed to a divorce. Maida tells Julie, that she wants all of the Walker family's money and Alec's parents happen to overhear her. Now what will happen to Maida, after she is exposed for the Gold digger she is?

This is the perfect movie to celebrate dueling divas. The performances are wonderful and Lombard, is absolutely gorgeous. I think another good reason to see this film, is to see Kay Francis performance as Maida, Cary Grant's vindictive wife, which is great fun to watch. Lombard's fans won't be disappointed either with her heart-breaking performance.

Both actress break new ground in this classic film, In Name Only(1939). Carole Lombard brings it down a notch from her sexy blonde of screw-ball comedy fame to perform a straight dramatic role. Kay Francis, plays the woman you love to hate. She should have received an academy award for her performance.

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"Queen of Screwball Comedy": Carole Lombard.

Fun Facts:

At the christening of the California Shipbuilding Corporation's Liberty Ship "S.S. Carole Lombard", Irene Dunne (right) was sponsor and Mrs. Walter Lang, Carole's closest friend (left) was Matron of Honor.

Clark Gable stood on the launching platform during the ceremony which took place one day short of two years from the tragic death of Carole Lombard in a plane accident while returning from a War Bond tour.

After her death, a Liberty ship was named after her.

A 1926 car accident badly cut her face and she was was worried that use of anesthetic during the operation would leave worse scars, so she went under reconstructive surgery without an anesthetic.

Linked romantically to crooner Russ Columbo until his accidental death late in 1934. (January 14, 1908 – September 2, 1934). Russ Columbo, was an American singer, violinist and actor, most famous for his songs: "You Call It Madness, But I Call It Love", his compositions "Prisoner of Love" and "Too Beautiful For Words".

Lombard was listed in the credits of Safety in Numbers (1930), her first Paramount release, as Carole (instead of Carol as in her previous billings). They decided that this would now be the official spelling and she went along with it. She legally changed her name to Carole Lombard in 1936. Only in her first film, A Perfect Crime (1921) did she use her real name, Jane Peters.

Interred at Forest Lawn, Glendale, California, USA, in the Great Mausoleum, Sanctuary of Trust, on the left hand side, next to Clark Gable.

Second cousin of director Howard Hawks, Kenneth Hawks and William B. Hawks.

Cousin-in-law of Mary Astor, Athole Shearer, Bessie Love, Dee Hartford and Eden Hartford.

A natural tomboy who joined in her brothers roughhousing.

She was posthumously awarded the Medal of Freedom by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as the first woman killed in the line of duty in WWII. Roosevelt greatly admired her work for the war effort, and ironically she was returning from an engagement selling War Bonds when her plane crashed.

Her film To Be or Not to Be (1942) was in post-production when she died in a plane crash, and the producers decided to leave out a part that had her character ironically saying, "What can happen in a plane?"

Was called the "Queen of Screwball Comedy".

The Jack Benny radio show that followed her death was cancelled because Benny, a good friend and admirer, was grief-stricken. The time was filled with music instead.

Lucille Ball said she finally decided to go ahead with "I Love Lucy" (1951) when Carole, who had been a close friend, came to her in a dream and recommended she take a chance on the risky idea of entering television.

Considered by many to be the prototype for the icy blondes in Alfred Hitchcock's films.

The plane crash that killed her took place less than a month before the Oscars. Despite her mother's premonition of the disaster, she refused to take a train to Los Angeles. She was in a hurry to get to her husband after hearing of an alleged affair between her husband Clark Gable and Lana Turner who were filming, Somewhere I'll Find You (1942).

Interred next to Clark Gable at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Hollywood, California.

The decision to take the plane which eventually killed Carole and her mother was decided literally by the flip of a coin, with Carole winning the toss. The plane they took was a military convoy which made many stops in order to pick up troops. After the first stop, an officer requested Carole, her mother and publicist to get off the plane to make room for more troops. Carole reportedly argued with him, stating the fact she had raised more than half a million dollars in war bonds and had the right to stay on. The officer finally conceded, and shortly after, the plane crashed.

Part of her honeymoon with Clark Gable was at the Willows Inn in Palm Springs was built in 1924, with eight rooms featuring luxurious private baths, hand-made tiles, stone fireplaces, hardwood floors, private garden patios and mountain and garden vistas. The Inn continues to operate to this day and anyone can stay in the same room, called "The Library Suite" today. The room remains largely unaltered since the Gables stayed there more than 60 years ago.

Carole Lombard had a little dachshund named Commissioner that ignored Clark Gable completely. After her death in 1942, the dog would not leave Gable's side.

Carole read and loved the book "Gone With the Wind". Excited, she sent a copy of the book to Gable, with a note attached reading "Let's do it!". Gable wrongly assumed she was making a sexual advance to him, and called Carole to organize a date. When he found out Carole wanted to make a film of the book with him as Rhett Butler and herself as Scarlett, he refused, and kept the copy of the book she had given him thereafter in his toilet.

Attended Fairfax High School in Los Angeles. Was elected "May Queen" in 1924. Quit soon thereafter to pursue acting full time.

She was often doubled by her old school friend, Dixie Pantages. Dixie had an even more unusual background than Carole herself did: she was born in extreme poverty, but when her mother died, she was adopted by the wealthy Pantages family so that their own daughter, a childhood playmate of Dixie's, could have a sister. When that happened, her name changed legally from Dixie Nelson to Dixie Pantages as a result of the adoption becoming legal.

Twice turned down opportunities to play a newspaperwoman, in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) and His Girl Friday (1940).

She never had a dressing room when shooting a movie. Instead, she preferred to socialize with the cast and crew members during her breaks.

After her death, the Van Nuys News ran an unusual front page tribute: "Down deep in their hearts, those who had chatted with her over the back fence or across a garden row knew that Carole Lombard wanted more than anything else to be a model housewife and a good neighbor. And she was just that. She was a loveable person, just as much at home in blue denims and ginghams as she was in furs and jewels.".

She was good friends with Gloria Swanson.

Gable and Lombard first met in late 1924 while working as extras on the set of Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925). They would make three films together as extras, Ben-Hur, The Johnstown Flood (1926) and The Plastic Age (1925) and star together in No Man of Her Own (1932), but not become romantically attached until 1936.

Turned down the part of Ellie Andrews in It Happened One Night (1934). Claudette Colbert was then given the role and won a Best Actress Oscar for her performance.

Profiled in book "Funny Ladies" by Stephen Silverman. (1999).

When touring Hearst's Castle, San Simeon, they show you a second floor bedroom where they say Carole Lombard and Clark Gable spent their wedding night. It's a room with a beautiful view and a huge water storage tank rests hidden above it. The water was gravity fed from an adjoining hill to provided water to the Castle.

In 1938, Carole Lombard spent one day as Honorary Mayor of Culver City. Her first official duty was to declare the day a holiday, and tell all the studio employees they could go home!

Carole Lombard’s first screen kiss was Buck Jones in Durand of the Badlands (1925). Buck was a motion picture star of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, best known for his work starring in western movies.

She made a screentest for Charlie Chaplin’s Goldrush movie.

Her favorite color was white.

She hated the color pink.

Her legendary outbursts of profanity were actually fashioned after silent movie star, Mae Murray(pictured above).  Please click here to learn more about, Mae Murray.

Carole Lombard’s favorite flower was the lily.

Of all her films, Lombard considered “Nothing Sacred” to have been her personal favorite. A screwball comedy film. It was directed by William A. Wellman and produced by David O. Selznick, from a screenplay credited to Ben Hecht, based on a story by James H. Street. Cast: Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Walter Connolly, Charles Winninger, Margaret Hamilton, Hattie McDaniel, Frank Fay and Max Rosenbloom. The music score was by Oscar Levant, with additional music by Alfred Newman and Max Steiner and a swing number by Raymond Scott's Quintette.

New York newspaper reporter Wally Cook tries to pass off a African-American as an African nobleman hosting a charity event. But things backfires for Cook, who is demoted to writing obituaries. He begs his boss Oliver Stone for another chance. Wally is sent to the (fictional) town of Warsaw, Vermont, to interview Hazel Flagg, a woman supposedly dying of radium poisoning.

Cook finally locates Hazel, who is crying because her doctor has told her that she is not dying. Unaware of this, he invites her to New York, where she receives a ticker tape parade and the key to the city. She and Wally fall in love. When it is discovered that Hazel is not dying, the city officials decide that it would be better to avoid embarrassment by saying she committed suicide. Hazel and Wally get married and set sail on their honeymoon.

My Man Godfrey (1936)

****
Country: US
Director: Gregory La Cava

"All you need to start an asylum is an empty room and the right kind of people," millionaire Alexander Bullock (Eugene Pallette) remarks to a friend near the beginning of My Man Godfrey. For the next hour and a half the movie sets out to illustrate that quip, using Bullock's two daughters, his wife, and their social set as its prime examples. As hard as he tries, Alexander Bullock isn't ever able to introduce any sanity into his eccentric family, but a mystery man played by William Powell is. Powell is Godfrey Smith, a homeless man living in a packing box at the city dump who is claimed by both Bullock daughters, Cornelia (Gail Patrick) and Irene (Carole Lombard), in the film's famous opening, where the two are competing for the last item they need to win a society scavenger hunt—a real Forgotten Man. Godfrey doesn't respond to the imperious Cornelia, but he does take an immediate liking to her sweet, slightly ditzy younger sister and allows himself to be claimed by her. Irene, elated at besting her domineering sister for once, in turn takes such a shine to Godfrey that she impulsively hires him as the new family butler. For the rest of the movie we follow along as Godfrey becomes embroiled in the antics of this nutty family that practically embodies the expression "the idle rich."

One of the reasons for the popularity in the 1930s of American screwball comedies like Godfrey was the way these movies made fun of such people. While getting an eyeful of the lavish lives of the rich, audiences of the day could at the same time laugh at their idiotic behavior and their obliviousness of the economic hardships of the Depression. Many screwball comedies went no further than using the foibles of the rich as comic fodder, but some showed a genuine sense of social awareness and used their seemingly frivolous plots as pointed commentary on the huge socioeconomic gulf between the rich and the rest of the population. The opening moments of Godfrey show clearly that this is a screwball comedy with a social conscience: The camera slowly sweeps across a painted version of the New York skyline done in Art Deco style as the credits light up on the sides of buildings, until it finally stops at the Queensboro Bridge, where looming in the shadows in the foreground at the foot of the bridge is the squalor of the city dump, a homeless encampment, and the stylized painted image fades into the real thing. This is where Godfrey Smith lives.

Godfrey Smith (William Powell, right) at home at the dump

Even so, Godfrey doesn't bludgeon the audience with its social commentary the way a Capra movie can. It keeps its view of the social and economic ills of the time and the insularity of the rich on a satirical level. These people aren't intentionally malevolent so much as ignorant of the problems faced by those whose lives are less privileged than their own. Rather than promoting Capraesque populism, the film is actually rather conservative in its attitudes. Godfrey's prescription for the problems of people like himself is simple and capitalistic and squarely on the side of the work ethic. "The only difference between a derelict and a man," he says at one point, "is a job." And he uses the serendipitous outcome of an attempt by Cornelia to frame him for stealing a pearl necklace to ensure that his homeless friends at the dump get the jobs that will reintegrate them with society. If Godfrey has a serious point to make, it's that the rich must do more than spend their money to keep themselves entertained; they have a social obligation to invest their money in ways that create jobs, as Godfrey does with his windfall.

In the end, however, it is the film's vivid, eccentric characters that really stand out against this ground of social awareness. Gruff Eugene Pallette has never been better than as the harried nominal head of the Bullock family. "I sometimes wonder whether my whole family has gone mad or it's me," he complains to Godfrey in that distinctive gravel voice. His wife Angelica (Alice Brady) is the ultimate self-centered scatterbrain, a woman who drives her husband to the verge of derangement with her fawning on her Pekingese and on her "protégé" (Mischa Auer), a sycophantic musician whose patron she has become. Elder daughter Cornelia, predatory and egotistical in an almost feline way, quickly extends the antagonism of her obsessive sibling rivalry with Irene to Godfrey—she has never gotten over being rejected by him at the scavenger hunt in favor of Irene—and does everything she can to drive him out of the family.

Eugene Pallette and Alice Brady as Alexander and Angelica Bullock

The film's main focus within the Bullock family is, of course, Irene, played by the incomparable Carole Lombard. The gentle, good-natured Irene is nothing like her sister. As the Bullocks' maid tells Godfrey his first day on the job, "She's not as violent [as Cornelia] but she's more insidious." With her rushed, slightly breathless delivery and habit of conversing in non sequiturs, Lombard makes Irene the kind of woman whose fey charm would get under your skin. At first the attachment she develops to Godfrey seems the kind of fondness a lonely, sensitive child might have for a pet. When Irene impetuously kisses Godfrey about half an hour into the film, it's plain that her childish affection for him is developing into mature love. It's equally plain that a number of obstacles stand in the way of any romance, including the machinations of the jealous Cornelia, an eminently unsuitable fiancé (Grady Sutton no less), and Godfrey's own strange reluctance to be anything more than Irene's avuncular protector.

William Powell is equally marvelous as Godfrey, one of those wily servants in the tradition of Figaro and Jeeves who are constantly outwitting their aristocratic masters. The difference here is that, as we learn well into the film, Godfrey is himself a fallen aristocrat. Powell always had the ability to project a combination of worldly sophistication and more down-to-earth qualities. Here we see Godfrey's urbanity in his scenes in the Bullock household, where he maintains a facade of formality and emotional reserve. We see his more demotic qualities in the way he relates to his fellow homeless at the dump and to an old friend from better days whom he accidentally runs across (Alan Mowbray, who is quite good). In psychological terms, this divide between the two sides of Godfrey's personality is the chief problem he faces in the film, and the account of how this situation came about explains his reticence toward Irene when she throws herself at him. Briefly, Godfrey's fall from his former circumstances is the result of an unfortunate love affair that caused him to give up on love and nearly to give up on life itself.

In many ways My Man Godfrey can be viewed as an updated fairy tale set against a background of social satire. A royal family isolated in their castle, a king at the end of his tether, a loopy queen under the influence of an evil minstrel, a wicked elder daughter victimizing a naive younger one, a wandering prince disguised as a peasant—you can almost picture the people in the film as characters in a fairy tale by Charles Perrault. As with most fairy tales, My Man Godfrey is a story of transformation. The transformative force here is Godfrey himself, who by the end of the film manages to humanize these inhumane people living in their bubble world.

The most important transformation, though, is the one Godfrey effects on Irene and himself. Through circumstances outside their control, Godfrey and Irene both have developed off-center personalities. In coming together, each restores balance to the other. She warms him up; he cools her down. She returns him to emotional life and helps him regain his humanity. He brings her down to Earth and helps her discover her own dormant humanity. As in most fairy tales, My Man Godfrey is also a tale of rescue. Irene rescues Godfrey from pessimism and despair. He rescues her from a future as a vapid, self-absorbed nitwit like her mother. His wisdom and her innocence unite to make them two complementary halves of a couple. And what a charming and beautiful couple they are.

This post was written as part of the ongoing Comedy Countdown at Wonders in the Dark, where My Man Godfrey came in at #20. Be sure to check out all the great films being covered in the countdown, which runs through late December.

Pawsome Pet Pictures: Clark and Carole

Mom and Dad with their hens

Made for Each Other (1939)

Made for Each Other (1939). Drama. D: John Cromwell. Cast: Carole Lombard, James Stewart, Charles Coburn, Lucile Watson, Alma Kruger, Esther Dale, Ward Bond and Louise Beavers.

The story begins when, a young New York attorney John Mason marries Jane, soon after meeting, which disappoints his boss, Judge Doolittle and his mother who had both hoped that John would marry the bosses daughter.

Soon after, their honeymoon is delayed by a court case, the newlyweds move into their new apartment and invite John's disproving mother to live with them. Things do not get any easier when, John is unfairly passed over for a partnership in Doolittle's law firm.

After, baby John is born, financial pressure builds and Jane wants her husband to ask for a raise, but the judge beats him to the punch, by asking him into accept a twenty-five percent pay cut. Jane, is forced to go back to work causing problems between John and Jane. Leaving all the housework for the very unhappy mother-in-law.

On New Year's Eve, the couple have reached the end of their rope and they decide to separate. When Jane calls home to check on the baby she learns that her son has come down with phenomena. When the baby, arrives to the hospital by ambulance, they are told that the baby may die,  if he does not receive a special serum. The only place where the doctors can locate the serum is in Salt Lake City, which is snowed in by a blizzard.

Desperate, John turns to Judge Doolittle, who offers the five thousand dollars to pay the pilot, Conway, to deliver the medicine. The storm turns deadly and Conway has to parachute out of his plane before it crashes, breaking his leg. Will the medicine make it in time to save the baby?

Even though, Carole Lombard is known for comedy, she plays her part very seriously, which shows her versatility. Stewart, is equally as good..

Please click on link to view whole movie. http://archive.org/details/madefor_each_other

Lucile Watson (May 27, 1879 – June 24, 1962),  first film role was in the 1916 silent film, The Girl with Green Eyes. She did not appear in another movie until 1930, when she had an uncredited role in, The Royal Family of Broadway. Watson was primarily a stage actress, starring in such plays as Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines, Heartbreak House, Ghosts, The Importance of Being Earnest and Pride and Prejudice. Lucile reached the height of her adult acting career in, Watch on the Rhine on Broadway in 1941. Two years later in Hollywood, she and Lukas reprised their roles in the film adaptation. In perhaps her best known film role, Lucile Watson's performance as 'Mrs. Fanny Farrelly' was also acknowledged with a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, but she lost to actress, Katina Paxinou for her performance as Pilar in, For Whom the Bell Tolls.

Pawsome Pet Pictures: Carole Lombard

My girl Carole and her cute little friend

Great On Screen Couples: Cary Grant and Carole Lombard

Ok for the few people in blog land who may not know this...Cary Grant and Carole Lombard are my favorite actor and actress ever. I love them more than any other actors and actresses. And while I think Irene Dunne is Cary's best on screen partner, due to the three wonderful films they made together (The Awful Truth, My Favorite Wife and Penny Serenade), Cary and Carole had some great chemistry of their own. True they only made one full film together in 1939's In Name Only, they co-starred early in their career in The Eagle and The Hawk with Fredric March, but they shared no scenes together. Also just learned from VP81955 that Cary had a role in one of Carole's earlier films, Sinners in The Sun and they do share the screen together. Must track that down to watch that one. Thanks VP!

So it is with In Name Only, one terrific romantic drama from the golden year of 1939 that showcases my two favorite people working their magic. Cary is Alec Walker, a wealthy New Yorker in a loveless marriage to Maida (the amazing Kay Francis) who meets the beautiful and caring Julie Eden, a widow (played by Carole) with a young daughter. Alec and Julie hit it off immediately but Maida will not let him out their marriage. She will hold onto Alec even if it makes him miserable.

So this is a true romantic tear-jerker with an love triangle that just won't give an inch, especially by Maida.
Top notch drama and it's great seeing Cary and Carole in a film together. A nice change of pace of Carole in one of her few dramatic roles. She proves she can hold her own with the Bette Davis and Katharine Hepburns. Her pairing with Cary is just wonderful to see. I mean I would have loved for them to team up again for a screwball comedy but sadly that would not happen.

In Name Only is one of my all time favorite films. If you have never seen it, watch it immediately.

Notes:

This movie was intended to be a reunion for Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn, but following the failure of Bringing Up Baby at the box office from the previous year, Hepburn left RKO being after deemed "Box Office Poison". Carole Lombard was subsequently brought in as her replacement.

"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie onDecember 11, 1939 with Carole Lombard, Cary Grant and Kay Francis reprising their film roles.

Filmed on location in San Marino, California