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...Peter Lombard '78 will be the other co-producer of the Pudding's 130th annual show...
Barry Sloane '77, a co-producer of this year's show, said yesterday the Society chose Lombard and Nabatoff because they are "the two most capable people...
...assiduous and romantic collector of early Hollywood reminiscences. This interest sets him apart from his fellow film craftsmen, who rarely betray the slightest knowledge of their medium's past and who have in the last year or so trashed all kinds of potentially interesting material (Gable and Lombard, W.C. Fields, the early screen cowboys in Hearts of the West, not to mention the hapless Rin Tin Tin) while seeking a market in movie nostalgia that has so far been more apparent than real...
...Mexican resort. Nor does Tryon stint on nostalgia. Skillfully he conjures up the well-nigh irresistible grandeur that prewar Hollywood displayed to the world when "people were driven by their liveried chauffeurs in Duesenbergs . . . when polo matches were played at Will Rogers' ranch and Gable danced with Lombard at the Trocadero...
...approaches W.C. Fields and Me warily. If Hollywood could befoul a pleasantly romantic story about two attractive people like Gable and Lombard, what horrors might it inflict on us in attempting to make a movie about one of the most difficult, enigmatic and unlikely stars in the history of films...