Word: lombard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...comedy of manners, flouncing wittily onto a couch, exhaling every word in swooning intimacy, switching from fawn to fume in the wink of a lover's indiscretion. She can even speak American English without an accent. Surprise! Inside the Greer Garson roles Streep usually plays, a vixenish Carole Lombard is screaming to be cut loose...
...over-bearing detective William Blore, Jeff Branion uses his physical presence skillfully, throwing his theories around in as imposing a manner as he propels his body. And Captain Philip Lombard (Glenn Kiser) highlights the sinister elements that lurk beneath seemingly innocent characters when he defends the abandonment of African soldiers under his command by saying, "Natives don't mind dying; they don't think of it as Europeans...
...heart is with every '30s heroine who must conquer class prejudice -- with wit, charm, bravado and a little larceny -- before she can win the nice guy away from the mapcap heiress. At first, Griffith's pudginess and baby-doll voice appear to disqualify her from the company of Carole Lombard, Jean Arthur and other down- to-earth goddesses of the golden age. But as she slims into executive shape, she grows in the role until finally she is captivating enough to be entrusted with a company merger or a big-budget film. Another Katharine (Hepburn) played another Tess (Harding...
...know and live with," said his wife Lori. Milken and Lori, who was his high school sweetheart, live quietly with their three children (Greg, 15, Lance, 12, Bari, 7) in Encino. Their five-bedroom house, which might sell for $3 million, was once occupied by Clark Gable and Carole Lombard. It is a suburban idyll trimmed by red and white Impatiens, finished inside with dark oak paneling and filled with photographs of the children...
This is not exactly an unheard-of condition. Dialing through the less prosperous cable channels late at night, one is likely to find people like James Stewart and Carole Lombard wrestling with it in black and white, with more charming indirection and a lot less self-pity than the new crowd manages. Part of the problem with She's Having a Baby is the lack of old-fashioned grace in its leading performances. Bacon has yet to mature as a comic actor; he is still just a bouncing boy. It is impossible to take his grownup ambitions, therefore the subject...