tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post8675418303524375326..comments2024-01-24T15:33:58.720-05:00Comments on A<br> Mythical<br> Monkey<br> writes<br> about<br> the<br> movies: Best Actress Of 1927-28: Mary Pickford (My Best Girl)Mythical Monkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11330587602682498820noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-61679320348798251172009-11-29T11:00:38.275-05:002009-11-29T11:00:38.275-05:00Thanks for the heads-up! I'll go back and tak...Thanks for the heads-up! I'll go back and take a look.<br /><br />I'll definitely be writing about Carole Lombard in the future (assuming I live long enough) -- at a minimum in connection with <i>Twentieth Century</i>, <i>My Man Godfrey</i>, <i>To Be Or Not To Be</i> and also about her relationship with Clark Gable. And no doubt more. <i>Nothing Sacred</i>, for example.<br /><br />She was beautiful, talented and from the anecdotes I've read, a load of fun, too.Mythical Monkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11330587602682498820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6924668268143757716.post-34511441960694800012009-11-29T10:46:55.687-05:002009-11-29T10:46:55.687-05:00Funny you mention Carole Lombard in this entry -- ...Funny you mention Carole Lombard in this entry -<i>- because she's in "My Best Girl."</i> She plays a "flirty blonde salesgirl" who's spurned by Buddy Rogers. <br /><br />At the time this was made, Lombard was age 18, coming off the 1926 automobile accident that caused some minor facial injury and derailed her budding career as a Fox starlet. This was made either before she signed with Mack Sennett or very early in her tenure there; not many people (even most Lombard biographers) are aware of this because she was unbilled.<br /><br />For more about this -- including some stills from the film -- go to an entry I wrote at http://community.livejournal.com/carole_and_co/33953.htmlVP81955https://www.blogger.com/profile/11792390726196611188noreply@blogger.com