Word: lombard
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...Carole Lombard was in a hurry to get home. For days the movies' best screwball comedienne had been traveling crosscountry patriotically, plugging defense bonds. In Indianapolis she had lent a hand at flag-raisings, jampacked the city's big Cadle Tabernacle for a rally, where she led The Star-Spangled Banner. The blonde actress-who had often said she was glad she was not beautiful-in one day raised $2,000,000. Indianapolis called her Defense Bond Saleslady No. 1. Said plain-spoken Miss Lombard: "I'm like the barker at a carnival...
...woeful problem of a settled married couple lifted from their wedlock by an unhappy legal circumstance. "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" is the story of a man and wife with marital tribulations of more than ordinary calibre. Decked out with an unusually insinuating script, and Robert Montgomery and Carole Lombard to talk it up as they and few others could, it lacks only some action to make it one of the best bits of bedroom propaganda of the year...
...wife of two seasons mighty-eared Cineman Clark Sable has lately been "Pappy," and his name for blonde, scatter-whimmed Carole Lombard has become "Ma." Aware also that their appearance at Sam Goldwyn's superspecial, star-stacked Greek War Benefit was characterized by the seemliest reticence, Hollywood magi took counsel among the stars, forecast that another Gable would shortly be added to their house...
...Robert Montgomery) and Mrs. (Carole Lombard) Smith comes an embarrassed little man from the town where they thought they were married, to explain that they are not married at all, because of a legal technicality. To tease his wife, Mr. Smith puts off asking her to remarry him until she gets thoroughly fed up, tosses him out, refuses to marry him at all. Amusing to this point, Mr. and Mrs. Smith for the ensuing reels becomes a sly, exasperating chase, in which the frantic husband tries to recapture his wife, eventually (with the help of a pair of skis) succeeds...
...Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital, accompanied by loving wife Carole Lombard, went dimple-chinned, he-mannered Clark Gable, 39, to find out what was wrong with a broad but aching Gable shoulder. "Hurry up," groused he at photographers, "I'm not feeling so well." Next day dental surgeons found what they claimed was the root of Actor Gable's ills, yanked an infected molar...