Word: lombard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Korda; United Artists) is the late Carole Lombard's last picture. Like Son of the Sheik (Rudolph Valentino), Steamboat 'Round the Bend (Will Rogers) and Saratoga (Jean Harlow), it was posthumously released. Fortunately for all concerned, To Be is a very funny comedy, salted to taste with melodrama and satire...
...succeeds-as Hollywood had not yet done-in deftly ridiculing Hitler and his Nazis. His story is an actor's-eye-view of the Nazi occupation of Poland. As the Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne of Warsaw's Polski troupe, the Turas (Jack Benny and Miss Lombard) are a brittle couple. Their favorite soliloquy is Hamlet's To be, or not to be. . . . He likes to deliver it because it flatters his ego, at length; she likes it because it gives her time to entertain her male admirers backstage...
...that a quarter hour on the air has over an eight-column front page in the matter of keeping emphasis where it belongs. Boldest comment yet ventured by a newscaster on the press's sense of proportion was made by CBS's Elmer Davis, apropos the Carole Lombard crash story. He said with justice that headlines and stories took precious little account of the 15 Army airmen in the same crash...
...other is his antidote for getting over a bad spot in a picture. He just strides up & down interminably while everyone waits. The late Carole Lombard stood it as long as she could during the filming of Vigil in the Night, finally phoned her agent from her bed at 5 o'clock one morning: "I just thought what that pacing and thoughtful look of Stevens' mean." "What?" asked the sleepy agent. "Not a goddam thing," said she, and went back to sleep...
Joan Crawford inherited the role in tended for the late Carole Lombard in He Kissed the Bride, agreed to turn over to the Red Cross and other charities her full salary...