With the opening of two new cinemas in Hereford, together with this year's theme for the Modelling Challenge ("Ladies! To the Barricades!), it's the perfect time to pursue our interest in colourised photographs, on this occasion not of tanks nor planes, but of one of the 1930s most glamorous female film stars, Ms. Carole Lombard.
Queen of Hollywood's "screwball comedies", Carole Lombard (born 1908 as plain Jane Alice Peters) was the highest paid film star of 1937, earning $450,000, or more than five times the American President. Her full biography is HERE. And so on to the colourisations:
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| Carole, 1932 |
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| Carole, prob c.1937 |
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| Carole at the height of her acting powers, prob c.1935 |
Quite what effect Carole Lombard had on contemporary (or even modern day) Herefordians is unknown. Her effect on at least one member of the Modelling Challenge 2024 Judging Panel has, however, been clearly documented:
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| Anthropomorphic Mr Wolf, a distinguished celebrity Judge, makes a judicial recommendation. |
Note (and just one more colourisation):
Having begun an (illicit) romance in 1936, Carole Lombard married Clark Gable on 29th March 1939:
Tragically, on the morning of 16th January 1942 and while returning from a US War Bonds tour, Carole Lombard and her mother were killed in an aeroplane crash in Nevada. It is said that an inconsolable Clark Gable (d.1960) never recovered from the loss.
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