Another relatively rare photo of Carole from the same 1936 Hurrell session. Why the photo for a European postcard is tagged MGM in the lower right corner is a mystery since Carole made only one film for the studio two years prior: The Gay Bride (1934).
Hurrell took a series of photos of Carole for Paramount’s The Princess Comes Across (1936) including some of her in costume for the film. From my viewing, this memorable Travis Banton-designed outfit wasn’t featured in the production.
More Carole along with one of her favorite enormous star sapphires. She replaced the 80 carat piece her ex-husband William Powell had gifted her with a 152 carat bauble she purchased for herself.
“IT'S NO SECRET — Keeping that perfect form has been Carole Lombard's easiest task. Between work sessions (she) spends most of her time exercising with gardening on her two acre estate or playing a friendly game of tennis on her new court she had built to professional size.”
More by Hurrell. Trivia: George Raft was set to co-star in The Princess Comes Across (1936) but walked out complaining that the assigned cinematographer Ted Tetzlaff purposely made Carole look better than him in their previous film Rumba (1935). Fred MacMurray stepped in.
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