...This film was one of the first to speak out against Hitler. As a youth, Stack admitted that he had a crush on Carole Lombard and in 1942 he appeared with her in To Be or Not To Be. He admitted he was terrified going into this role...

...He worked opposite many of the screen's foremost leading ladies, including Greta Garbo, Katharine Hepburn, Joan Crawford, and Carole Lombard. In 1933, Barrymore appeared as a Jewish attorney in the title role of Counsellor-at-Law. As critic Pauline Kael later wrote, he "seems an unlikely choice for the ghetto-born lawyer...but this is one of the few screen roles that reveal his measure as an actor...

...It was around this time, while emceeing a vaudeville show in Chicago, he decided to introduce a sister act, The Gumm Sisters, to laughs from the audience. When he reintroduced the singing trio as The Garland Sisters (after Carole Lombard's character in the film Twentieth Century) the name stuck. Youngest sister Frances named herself Judy after a popular Rudy Vallee song and went onto become one of the most legendary film and recording stars of the last century...

*Queen of the Night Clubs (1929) with Texas Guinan *Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929) *Side Street (1929) with Tom Moore, Owen Moore, and Matt Moore (Raft unbilled dancer) *Quick Millions (1931) with Spencer Tracy and Marguerite Churchill *Goldie (1931) with Spencer Tracy and Jean Harlow *Hush Money (1931) with Joan Bennett and Myrna Loy *Palmy Days (1931) with Eddie Cantor *Scarface (1932) with Paul Muni and Ann Dvorak (Raft flips the nickel in his breakthrough role) *Love Is a Racket (1932) (scenes deleted) *Madame Racketeer (1932) with Alison Skipworth and Richard Bennett *Night World (1932) with Lew Ayres, Mae Clarke, and Boris Karloff *Dancers in the Dark (1932) with Miriam Hopkins *Taxi! (1932) with James Cagney *Winner Take All (1932) with James Cagney *Night After Night (1932) with Mae West as a fictionalized Texas Guinan (Raft's 1st leading role) *Under Cover Man (1932) with Nancy Carroll *If I Had a Million (1932; Raft plays a forger who can't cash his million dollar check) *Pick-Up (1933) with Sylvia Sidney *The Bowery (1933) with Wallace Beery, Fay Wray, and Pert Kelton (Raft 2nd billed) *The Midnight Club (1933) with Clive Brook (Raft 2nd billed) *The Trumpet Blows (1934) with Adolphe Menjou *All of Me (1934) with Fredric March and Miriam Hopkins (Raft 3rd billed) *Bolero (1934) with Carole Lombard and Ray Milland (besides Scarface, Raft's signature film) *Limehouse Blues (1934) with Anna May Wong *Every Night at Eight (1935) with Alice Faye and Frances Langford *The Glass Key (1935) with Edward Arnold *She Couldn't Take It (1935) with Joan Bennett *Stolen Harmony (1935) with Lloyd Nolan and William Cagney *Rumba (1935) with Carole Lombard *Yours for the Asking (1936) with Dolores Costello and Ida Lupino *It Had to Happen (1936) with Rosalind Russell *Souls at Sea (1937) with Gary Cooper (Raft 2nd billed) *You and Me (1938) with Sylvia Sidney (with bizarre musical interludes by Kurt Weill) *Spawn of the North (1938) with Henry Fonda and John Barrymore *I Stole a Million (1939) with Claire Trevor *The Lady's from Kentucky (1939) with Ellen Drew *Each Dawn I Die (1939) with James Cagney (Raft 2nd billed) *The House Across the Bay (1940) with Joan Bennett *They Drive by Night (1940) with Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, and Humphrey Bogart *Invisible Stripes (1940) with William Holden and Humphrey Bogart *Manpower (1941) with Edward G...

...While on the Darmouth football team, he was hired to play a football extra in the 1926 film The Quarterback. In 1930 he played the romantic lead in Fast and Loose, which also featured Miriam Hopkins, Carole Lombard and Frank Morgan. After that, he was very active for the next two years but his roles were unremarkable...

In October 1930, she met William Powell. They married on June 26, 1931. Lombard commented to fan magazines that she did not believe their sixteen-year age difference would present a problem, but friends felt they were ill-suited, as Lombard had an extroverted personality while Powell was more reserved...

...In 1931, Powell married actress Carole Lombard. The marriage lasted just over two years. They were divorced in 1933, though they too remained on good terms, even starring together in My Man Godfrey three years later...

...High Voltage (1929) was a box-office success and Ellis' first full talking picture. It is also notable as the first "talkie" made by Carole Lombard. Ellis's final film, Laughter (1930), featured her in a romantic triangle along with Fredric March and Nancy Carroll...

...Critics agree that her acting was flat, that she was unable to dominate the camera, and that she was generally outclassed by Dietrich, Carole Lombard, and others. She rented a home at 1712 Stanley Street, in Hollywood, and began hosting parties that were said to "have no boundaries." On September 9, 1932, she was featured on the cover of Film Weekly...

...Temple also made pictures with Carole Lombard, Gary Cooper, Adolphe Menjou, and many others. Arthur Treacher appeared as a kindly butler in several of Temple's films.

...Her final film, To Be or Not to Be, directed by Ernst Lubitsch and co-starring Jack Benny, a satire about Nazism and World War II, was in post-production at the time of her death...

...Lubitsch went independent to direct That Uncertain Feeling (1941, a remake of his 1925 film Kiss Me Again), and the dark anti-Nazi farce To Be or Not to Be (1942), which was Jack Benny's only major screen success and Carole Lombard's last picture....

Lombard made her film debut at the age of twelve after she was seen playing baseball in the street by director Allan Dwan; he cast her as a tomboy in A Perfect Crime (1921). In the 1920s, she worked in several low-budget productions credited as 'Jane Peters', and then later as 'Carol Lombard'...

...However, she played a dramatic role in Vigil in the Night, starring as Nurse Anne Lee opposite Brian Aherne. Produced by David O. Selznick, Nothing Sacred was her only film made in Technicolor. Lombard was offered the role of Ellie Andrews in It Happened One Night (1934), but the filming schedule conflicted with that of Bolero and she was unable to accept.

...I can't see myself doing Shakespeare." She spoke of her hopes of finding a niche in comedy, and in other interviews she expressed her desire to become "a light comedienne in the Carole Lombard style". She discussed the type of contemporary actress she wanted to emulate and explained that there were two in particular that she was influenced by: Faye Dunaway and Catherine Deneuve...

...Taylor and Stanwyck were one of the Hollywood's "golden couples" and were good friends with another famous couple, Clark Gable and Carole Lombard. The marriage had its ups and downs, lasting from 1939 to 1951....

...In 1952 he won the Best Actor Emmy (Comedy Actor category), and the following year a Tony Award for best performance by an actor in the musical "Hazel Flagg" (based on the Carole Lombard film Nothing Sacred)....

...Warner *1938 – The Citadel – directed by King Vidor, featuring Robert Donat, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Richardson, and Rex Harrison *1940 – Vigil in the Night – directed by George Stevens, featuring Carole Lombard, Brian Aherne, Anne Shirley, and Robert Coote *1940 – The Stars Look Down – directed by Carol Reed, narrated by Lionel Barrymore (US version), featuring Michael Redgrave, Margaret Lockwood, Emlyn Williams, Nancy Price, and Cecil Parker *1941 – Shining Victory (from play, Jupiter Laughs) – directed by Irving Rapper, featuring James Stephenson, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Donald Crisp, Barbara O'Neil, and Bette Davis *1942 – Hatter's Castle – directed by Lance Comfort, featuring Robert Newton, Deborah Kerr, James Mason, Emlyn Williams, and Enid Stamp-Taylor *1944 – The Keys of the Kingdom – directed by John M...

During her childhood, Madonna became fascinated by films and film stars, later saying, "I loved Carole Lombard and Judy Holliday and Marilyn Monroe. They were all incredibly funny...and I saw myself in them...my girlishness, my knowingness and my innocence"...

In 1938, upon the release of the movie Nothing Sacred, Baals declared the Carole Lombard House at 704 Rockhill Street a landmark....

...She and Olivia de Havilland secretly met with Cukor at night and on weekends for his advice about how they should play their parts. She befriended Clark Gable, his wife Carole Lombard and de Havilland, but she clashed with Leslie Howard, with whom she was required to play several emotional scenes...

...Off-screen, Dietrich did get her man, but the affair was short-lived. Made for Each Other (1939) had Stewart sharing the screen with irrepressible Carole Lombard in a melodrama that garnered good reviews for both stars, but did less well with the public. Newsweek wrote that they were "perfectly cast in the leading roles."Between movies, Stewart began a radio career and became a distinctive voice on the ”Lux Radio Hour’’, the ’’Screen Guild Theater”, and other radio shows...