The witty repartee and lightning fast pacing keeps viewers breathlessly entertained. They meet again when they are both riding to New York on the Twentieth Century Limited train.
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His career is flagging, hers has exploded since she’s moved to Hollywood. It features Lombard as a rising acting diva and John Barrymore as the former lover and flamboyant Broadway director who discovered her.
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Twentieth Century (1934): The breakout movie that rose Carole Lombard to star status, helmed by friend and master director Howard Hawks, the brilliant Twentieth Century is considered to be the first and one of the all-time best classic screwball comedies, and anticipated the later films His Girl Friday and Bringing Up Baby. A woman who showed herself a true patriot on the home front of World War II, her commitment and dedication was something to aspire to as a civilian in wartime. Roosevelt posthumously awarded Lombard the Medal of Freedom as the first woman killed in the line of duty in WWII. She was extremely involved in promoting war bonds and was flying back from a war bond rally on January 16, 1942, when her plane crashed, killing all 19 onboard. Instead of reviewing the colossus-son-of-last-year’s-hit, i’ll be featuring a famous patriotic Hollywood actress who lost her life while doing important work to support the US during World War II.Ĭarol Lombard, a comedienne with gorgeous cover girl good looks, was once the highest paid star in Hollywood, earning more than $500,000 a year in the late 1930s. As memorial day weekend approaches, and the mammoth summer blockbusters are lined up, tarted up, and beaconing us, (reviews of which will be forthcoming in next week’s paper) Cinema Siren thought it would be good to approach the holiday from a unique angle.