Tag Archives: Carole Lombard

Archie Leach day: Cary Grant’s streetcar

Cary Grant and Peter Bogdanovich were very good friends, despite the age difference, and also their wildly different ways of handling celebrity status. Cary Grant kept as low a profile as he possibly could, and did his best to avoid … Continue reading

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Weekend snapshots

— I washed my walls. They are a lovely pale yellow color and I was horrified at how black my damn Melaleuca cloth was when I was done. City air. Filthy. Invisible and filthy. Horrors. I cleaned like a whirling … Continue reading

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Carole Lombard

I’ve been reading a perfectly HORRIBLE biography of Gary Cooper, Cooper’s Women (and by “perfectly horrible” I mean “salacious and awesome”) and there’s a lot of great stuff in there about Carole Lombard . Lombard and Cooper “dated” before she … Continue reading

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