Cast: Carole Lombard

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Carole Lombard · Jack Benny · Robert Stack · Stanley Ridges

Synopsis To Be or Not to Be (1942) is a daring wartime comedy set in Nazi-occupied Warsaw. The story follows a troupe of Polish actors who use their theatrical skills to outwit the invading forces. When a daring spy mission goes...

Direction Gregory La Cava

Cast William Powell · Carole Lombard · Gail Patrick · Alice Brady

Synopsis Director Gregory La Cava deftly balances satire, romance, and social comment in this 1936 classic, which echoes Frank Capra in its Depression-era subtext. The Bullocks are a well-heeled, harebrained Manhattan family genetically engineered for screwball collisions: father Alexander (Eugene Pallette,...

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Carole Lombard · Fred MacMurray · Ralph Bellamy · Astrid Allwyn

Synopsis Beautiful manicurist Reggie Allen has a plan to marry for money. One of her clients, paraplegic ex-aviator Allen Macklyn, is rich and has an eye for Reggie. However, things get a little crazy when Theodore Drew III enters her life....

Direction Howard Hawks

Cast John Barrymore · Carole Lombard · Walter Connolly · Roscoe Karns

Synopsis 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...

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Carole Lombard · Fredric March · Charles Winninger · Walter Connolly

Synopsis When a small-town girl is diagnosed with a rare, deadly disease, an ambitious newspaper man turns her into a national heroine.

Direction Robert Youngson

Cast Clark Gable · Greta Garbo · Jean Harlow · Cary Grant

Synopsis A compilation of scenes from classic MGM comedies from the silent era up to 1948's "A Southern Yankee." Among the films showcased are "The Thin Man," "A Night at the Opera," "Dinner at Eight" and "Bonnie Scotland."

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Cary Grant · Carole Lombard · Kay Francis · Charles Coburn

Synopsis While out riding in the country, wealthy New Yorker Alec Walker meets young widow Julie Eden, and a relationship quickly develops. However, Alec has not told her that he is already locked into a loveless marriage to the avaricious Maida,...

Direction George Stevens

Cast Carole Lombard · Brian Aherne · Anne Shirley · Julien Mitchell

Synopsis Nurse Anne Lee blames herself for a fatal mistake of her sister Lucy, who also is a nurse. Anne loses her job, and gets a new one at a poorly equipped country hospital. There she falls in love with Dr....

Direction Edward Buzzell

Cast Carole Lombard · Pat O'Brien · Ward Bond · Shirley Grey

Synopsis A relationship gradually develops between a savvy New York street girl and a good-hearted cab driver--who first meet when she stiffs him for the fare--but other matters keep getting in their way, including financial problems and a murder.

Direction John Cromwell

Cast James Stewart · Carole Lombard · Charles Coburn · Lucile Watson

Synopsis Newlyweds, John and Jane Mason, struggle through their first year a marriage, plagued by money problems, illness and a meddlesome live-in mother-in-law. To top it all off, their baby son is dying of pneumonia, and can only be saved by...

Direction Stuart Walker

Cast Fredric March · Cary Grant · Jack Oakie · Carole Lombard

Synopsis Three Americans (March, Grant and Oakie) go blustering off to volunteer for duty in the Royal Air Force in WWI. The reality of war sobers March quickly, but Grant's ill-advised derring-do results in tragedy. The romantic subplot involves dishy Lombard....

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Carole Lombard · Fred MacMurray · Dorothy Lamour · Anthony Quinn

Synopsis In Panama, Maggie King meets soldier Skid Johnson on his last day in the army and reluctantly agrees to a date to celebrate. The two become involved in a nightclub brawl which causes Maggie to miss her ship back to...

Direction Wesley Ruggles

Cast Clark Gable · Carole Lombard · Dorothy Mackaill · Grant Mitchell

Synopsis Clark Gable plays a card cheat who has to go on the lam to avoid a pesky cop. He meets a lonely, but slightly wild, librarian, Carole Lombard, while he is hiding out. The two get married after Lombard wins...

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Gary Cooper · Carole Lombard · Shirley Temple · Guy Standing

Synopsis Young freewheeling wanderer Jerry Day and his beautiful wife Toni are at odds over their lifestyle. Jerry can't accept responsibility but Toni yearns for a family and a settled life. Then the Days 'rediscover' Jerry's young daughter Pennie, who has...

Direction Wesley Ruggles

Cast Carole Lombard · Fred MacMurray · John Barrymore · Una Merkel

Synopsis Helen and Ken are a pretty strange couple. She is a pathological liar, and he is a scrupulously honest (and therefore unsuccessful) lawyer. Helen starts a new job, and when her employer is found dead, all the (circumstantial) evidence points...

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Carole Lombard · Robert Montgomery · Gene Raymond · Jack Carson

Synopsis Sophisticated New York couple David and Annie Smith have an unusual marriage with an inordinate number of rules and regulations. One rule entitles them to ask each other one question per month which the other must answer completely honestly. Annie...

Direction William K. Howard

Cast Carole Lombard · Fred MacMurray · Douglass Dumbrille · Alison Skipworth

Synopsis A woman pretends to be royalty in order to get aboard a cruise ship.

Direction Victor Halperin

Cast Carole Lombard · Alan Dinehart · Vivienne Osborne · Randolph Scott

Direction Stuart Walker

Cast Carole Lombard · Charles Laughton · Charles Bickford · Kent Taylor

Synopsis A nightclub singer marries the rich owner of a rubber plantation. When she returns with him to his estate in Malaysia, she finds out that he is cruel, vicious and insanely jealous. She and the plantation's overseer develop a mutual...

Direction Wesley Ruggles · Mitchell Leisen

Cast George Raft · Carole Lombard · Sally Rand · Ann Sheridan