3 Movies Starring Carole Lombard

Twentieth Century

Twentieth Century

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1934-05-11

Languages:

English, German

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

91 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.9 (4331 Reviews)

Director:

Howard Hawks

Cast:

Writer:

Charles Bruce Millholland (play)

Ben Hecht (screenplay)

Charles MacArthur (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Broadway director Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore) is a bigger ham than most actors, but through sheer drive and talent he is able to build a successful career. When one of his discoveries, Lily Garland (Carole Lombard), rises to stardom and heeds the call of Hollywood, Oscar begins a career slide. He hits the skids and seems on his way out, until he chances to meet Lily again, on a train ride aboard the Twentieth Century Limited. Oscar pulls out all the stops to re-sign his former star, but it's a battle... because Lily, who is as temperamental as Oscar is, wants to have nothing to do with her former mentor.

My Man Godfrey

My Man Godfrey

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1936-09-17

Languages:

English, Russian

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

94 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

8.1 (14662 Reviews)

Director:

Gregory La Cava

Cast:

Writer:

Morrie Ryskind (screen play)

Eric Hatch (screen play)

Eric Hatch (based on the novel by)

Fullplot:

In the depths of the Depression, a party game brings dizzy socialite Irene Bullock to the city dump where she meets Godfrey, a derelict, and ends by hiring him as family butler. He finds the Bullocks to be the epitome of idle rich, and nutty as the proverbial fruitcake. Soon, the dramatizing Irene is in love with her 'protege'...who feels strongly that a romance between servant and employer is out of place, regardless of that servant's mysterious past...

To Be or Not to Be

To Be or Not to Be

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1942-03-06

Languages:

English, German

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

99 min

Rated:

PASSED

IMDB Ratings:

8.2 (17705 Reviews)

Director:

Ernst Lubitsch

Genres:

ComedyWar

Cast:

Writer:

Melchior Lengyel (original story)

Edwin Justus Mayer (screenplay)

Fullplot:

In occupied Poland during WWII, a troupe of ham stage actors (led by Joseph Tura and his wife Maria) match wits with the Nazis. A spy has information which would be very damaging to the Polish resistance and they must prevent it's being delivered to the Germans.

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