Lombard and Stewart Were Made For Each Other!
Just love their chemistry. Wish they'd been able to team up again, but very grateful for this wonderful movie.
shareI know I'm responding to an old post but I'm just watching this movie for the first time. You're correct - they really play well off each other. She's just luminous.
shareI used to be more ambivalent about Stewart, feeling his only real chemistry was with Donna Reed, in fact with her holding up most of that herself. But eventually I got around to Liberty Valence, and that was okay, too, in the chemistry department. ANd of course there is the obvious example of Vertigo, but again I tend to give most of the credit there in terms of chemistry to Kim Novak (Vertigo is an excellent film, one of the greatest. But imo Stewart's value to the film is more about his psychological portrayal than about the interaction with his female lead.)
But with Lombard there is excellent chemistry. I finally got to see this one having recorded the recent showing on TCM, and am very glad I did. The absence of a more typical Lombard screwball comedy was not really a problem. She is excellent in this film.
She was absolutely radiant. She certainly left us too soon.
shareITA, she was wonderful. When she discovers that her baby is dying and she fall to pieces, she had me in tears, she totally conveyed the feelings a mother feels.
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Get me a bromide - and put some gin in it!
You're correct - they really play well off each other. She's just luminous.
she is indeed.. miss lombard had a remarkably honest quality about her that allowed her characters to transcend time and place.. re: her portrayal of the newlywed wife in this film remains every bit as touching, relevant and powerful 75 years after the fact as it did back in 1939.. so much so that you can't help but root for her and jimmy every step of the way because you can't bear the thought of their characters suffering unsavory endings.. it's almost a visceral thing.. you feel not just for their character but for them on an almost personal level.. never have I felt like this about another actor.. carole and jimmy shared that 'underdog' quality that compels you to root for them to the detriment of all else..
larger-than-life personality, an optimist's positivity that is inspiring and contagious, the beautiful face of a loving friend, and that glowing golden hair.. carole was indeed luminous on screen!
it wasn't the fall from her 16th-floor penthouse that killed her, it was the landing share