![]() | Carole Lombard, the Hoosier Tornado (Indiana Biography Series) by Wes D. Gehring
Buy new: $13.69 / Used from: $11.98 Cursory 2003 biography has the facts but captures little of the actress' offscreen personality. Worthwhile mainly because of its recent publication date.
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![]() | Carole Lombard - The Glamour Collection (Hands Across the Table/ Love Before Breakfast/ Man of the World/ The Princess Comes Across/ True Confession/ We're Not Dressing)
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $12.59 Released in 2006, this excellent two-disc set has clean transfers of six of her mid-1930's films, the best being her first starring role as a lovelorn manicurist in 1935's "Hands Across the Table".
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![]() | Screwball: The life of Carole Lombard by Larry Swindell
Buy used from: $23.90 Published in 1975 but currently out of print. Easily the most thorough and fascinating biography of Lombard written. Worth seeking out in the reseller market.
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![]() | Twentieth Century
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $5.37 Lombard's first triumph as a top-flight screwball comic actress opposite the ham-fisted Barrymore in Howard Hawks' 1934 classic about offstage duplicity in the theatre.
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![]() | To Be or Not to Be
Buy used from: $13.88 Lombard's last film, she stars opposite Jack Benny in Ernst Lubitsch's superb 1942 satire about a courageous Polish acting troupe facing down the Nazis.
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![]() | Films of Carole Lombard by Frederick C. Ott
Buy used from: $3.50 Out of print since its reissue in 1984 but worth seeking out as it is a well-done pictorial filmography of Lombard's career.
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![]() | My Man Godfrey (Colorized / Black and White)
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $7.99 Lombard's most famous performance as a dizzy heiress who hires a hobo to become the family butler in Gregory La Cava's 1936 screwball classic. Colorized version is surprisingly well done.
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![]() | Nothing Sacred
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $2.07 Wacky farce has Lombard pretending to be a dying smalltown girl in this 1937 classic about tabloid journalism directed by "Wild Bill" Wellman. Only film she made in color.
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![]() | Carole Lombard (A Pyramid illustrated history of the movies) by Leonard Maltin
Buy used from: $14.88 Future film critic Leonard Maltin penned this cursory look at Lombard's career complete with photos. Part of an expansive series on Hollywood screen legends.
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![]() | Made For Each Other
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $1.94 A nice match, Lombard and James Stewart play struggling young marrieds coping with a sick baby in this poignant 1939 dramedy directed by John Cromwell.
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![]() | Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $1.85 Rare Hitchcock comedy released in 1941 has Lombard and Robert Montgomery in the title roles discovering their marriage is not legal. Shenanigans inevitably ensue.
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![]() | No Man of Her Own (Universal Cinema Classics)
Buy new: $8.49 / Used from: $5.25 Lombard's only movie with future husband Clark Gable is a saucy 1932 drama about the romance between a cynical card shark and a smalltown librarian.
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![]() | Racketeer (1929)
Buy new: $9.99 Lombard plays an ex-society girl caught betweena tough mobster and an alcoholic violinist in this vintage 1929 early talkie.
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![]() | The Eagle and The Hawk [VHS]
Buy used from: $9.99 Lombard doesn't even have a name in a minor role as Fredric March's love-on-leave interest in this 1933 wartime actioner co-starring a young Cary Grant. Lombard and Grant have no scenes together.
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![]() | Supernatural [VHS]
Buy used from: $6.83 The spirit of an executed murderess takes over Lombard in order to kill a fake spiritualist in this odd 1933 horror film by the Halperin brothers.
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![]() | Now & Forever [VHS]
Buy used from: $0.25 The focus is on Gary Cooper as a con artist who reconnects with his forgotten daughter, a pre-stardom Shirley Temple, as Lombard plays his disillusioned girlfriend in Henry Hathaway's 1934 sudser.
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![]() | Lady By Choice [VHS]
Buy used from: $14.75 Lombard takes a back seat to May Robson as a street woman "adopted" by a stripper in this surprisingly snappy 1934 dramedy. Lombard does a nice fan dance in this one.
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![]() | Swing High, Swing Low [VHS]
Buy used from: $2.00 Poor print and audio transfer compromise this 1937 drama about jaded trumpeter Fred MacMurray romancing beautician Lombard while stranded in Panama.
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![]() | In Name Only [VHS]
Classy triangle has Lombard as a widow falling for unhappily married Cary Grant much to the chagrin of his grasping wife played with velvet steel by Kay Francis in this mature 1939 soap opera.
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![]() | They Knew What They Wanted
Buy used from: $89.99 Lombard as a world-weary waitress who becomes the mail order bride of Charles Laughton's hammy paisan in this rarely seen 1940 drama.
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![]() | My Man Godfrey - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $32.49 / Used from: $21.47 Deluxe Criterion packaging of the 1936 classic includes a film scholar's commentary, a radio broadcast version, vintage newsreels and even film outtakes.
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![]() | Carole Lombard: Made for Each Other/Nothing Sacred
Buy new: $5.98 / Used from: $2.39 A bargain-priced "two-fer" of two great Lombard classics. Be wary of the print condition.
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![]() | Carole Lombard, Art Poster, size 11" x 17"
Vintage movie magazine cover of Lombard typical of the period.
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