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Lombards
Lombards , ancient Germanic people. By the 1st cent. AD the Lombards were settled along the lower Elbe. After obscure migrations they were allowed (547) by Byzantine Emperor Justinian I to settle in Pannonia and Noricum (modern Hungary and E Austria). In 568, under the leadership of Alboin , they i... Read more
Alboin
Alboin , d. 572?, first Lombard king in Italy (569-572?). With the Avars he defeated the Gepidae (see Germans ). He then led (568) an army across the Alps into Italy, took (569) Milan, and after a three-year siege conquered Pavia, which became his capital. He won most of N and central Italy from ... Read more
Piacenza
Piacenza , city (1991 pop. 102,268), capital of Piacenza prov., in Emilia-Romagna, on the Po River. It is an agricultural, commercial, and industrial center. Manufactures include agricultural machinery, chemicals, furniture, buttons, and food products. The city was a Roman stronghold (called Colonia... Read more
Lombard League
Lombard League an alliance formed in 1167 among the communes of Lombardy to resist Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I when he attempted to assert his imperial authority in Lombardy. Previously the communes had been divided, some favoring the emperor and others favoring the pope. However, after Frederic... Read more
Paul the Deacon
Paul the Deacon c.725-799?, Lombard historian. He received a good education, probably at Pavia, and he learned Latin thoroughly and some Greek. He lived at Monte Cassino and at Charlemagne's court. His first work was a continuation of the Roman history of Eutropius through Justinian. He also wrote ... Read more
Peter Lombard
Peter Lombard Lat. Petrus Lombardus, c.1100-c.1160, Italian theologian, often called Magister Sententiarum. He studied at Bologna, Reims, and Paris, where he is said to have been a student of Abelard. He acquired some fame as a teacher and was given high offices, serving for a time as archbishop ... Read more
Adda
Adda , river, 194 mi (312 km) long, rising in the Rhaetian Alps, N Italy, and flowing SW through Lake Como, then S into the Po River near Cremona. Its upper course furnishes much electric power; the lower river irrigates the Lombard plain. Many battles have been fought along its course, notably the ... Read more
pawnbroker
pawnbroker one who makes loans on personal effects that are left as security. The practice of pawnbroking is ancient, as is recognition of the danger it involves of oppressing the poor. In fact, the Bible provides the poor with a number of safeguards against oppression from their creditors. Accordi... Read more
Vicenza
Vicenza , city (1991 pop. 107,454), capital of Vicenza prov., Venetia, NE Italy. It is an agricultural, commercial, and highly diversified industrial center. Manufactures include machinery, chemicals, timber, and processed food. Originally a Roman town, later the seat of a Lombard duchy, Vicenza bec... Read more
Alessandria
Alessandria , city (1991 pop. 90,753), capital of Alessandria prov., in Piedmont, NW Italy, at the confluence of the Tanaro and Bormida rivers. It is an industrial center and agricultural market. Manufactures include wine, furniture, machinery, paper, and hats. Alessandria was built (1164-67) as a s... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to " Carole Lombard"

George Cooper Stevens
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy, Joel McCrea, Irene Dunne, Ginger Rogers, Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Fred Astaire, and Carole Lombard. While most of these films were romantic comedies, it was for dramas that he received his greatest kudos; as James... Read more
Willy Pogány
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...are those in the Children's Theater of the Heckscher Foundation and the building of the Niagara Falls (N.Y.) Power Company. Portraiture occupied much of his last few years; two of his better-known subjects were John Barrymore and Carole Lombard. Read more
William Clark Gable
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...living. He divorced his second wife. Marriage to young Carole Lombard, a top star of the 1930s, led to an extended idyll that...York: Pocket Books, 1994. Morella, Joe, Gable & Lombard & Powell & Harlow, London: W.H. Allen, 1976... Read more
Ethel Merman
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...featured role in a Hollywood film. The cast of the film We're Not Dressing included such major stars as Bing Crosby and Carole Lombard, but it did not give Merman a real chance to display her singing talent. Her biggest number was singing "The Animal... Read more
Howard Winchester Hawks
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Rosalind Russell in His Girl Friday, Bogart and Bacall in To Have and Have Not and The Big Sleep, John Barrymore and Carole Lombard in Twentieth Century ). This spiritual alliance of physical opposites revealed Hawks' unwillingness to accept the... Read more

Dictionary entries related to " Carole Lombard"

Lombard, Carole
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers LOMBARD, Carole Nationality: American. Born: Jane Alice...1972. Ott, Frederick W., The Films of Carole Lombard , Secaucus, New Jersey, 1972. Swindell, Harry Win, Screwball: The Life of Carole Lombard , New York, 1975. Maltin, Leonard, Carole... Read more
Carole
Book article from: A Dictionary of First Names Carole ♀ (French) form of Carol , formerly quite commonly used in the English-speaking world. In the 1930s it was associated particularly with the film star Carole Lombard (1908–42). Now that Carol is used almost exclusively for girls, the form Carole has become less frequent. Read more
Powell, William
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Wilson (divorced 1931), son: William David;2) the actress Carole Lombard, 1931 (divorced 1933); 3) the actress Diana Lewis, 1940...x2014; Morella, Joe, and Edward Epstein, Gable & Lombard & Powell & Harlow , London, 1971. Francisco... Read more
Gable, Clark
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...major. Family: Married 1) Josephine Dillon, 1924 (divorced 1930); 2) Ria Langham, 1931 (divorced 1939); 3) the actress Carole Lombard, 1939 (died 1942); 4) Lady Sylvia Ashley, 1949 (divorced 1951); 5) Kay Speckles, 1955, son: John Clark. Career: Factory... Read more
Ryan, Meg
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Dangerous (Lester) (as Maggie Cavanaugh); Top Gun (Tony Scott) (as Carole Bradshaw) 1987 Innerspace (Dante) (as Lydia Maxwell) 1988...widely replayed and comparisons would be drawn between her and Carole Lombard. Ryan offered a winsome amalgamation of innocence and big... Read more
Kendall, Kay
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...once sexy and funny — and all the sexier because she was funny — led several critics to compare her to Carole Lombard. But it also puzzled the studios, who never knew quite what to do with her. By the time they found out, it was too... Read more
Pfeiffer, Michelle
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...precisely cut from the cloth of a long Hollywood tradition — a sexy, beautiful, intelligent, modern answer to, say, Carole Lombard, blessed with a sophisticated gift for witty one-liners, an ability to cross c Read more
Cromwell, John
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Away. Meanwhile, Cromwell continued as director of other RKO successes, including In Name Only , with Cary Grant, Carole Lombard, and Kay Francis; and Robert Sherwood's Abe Lincoln in Illinois , starring Raymond Massey. He also directed Hedy Lamarr... Read more

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Clark Gable's "Hoosier Tornado".(REEL WORLD)(Carole Lombard)
Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine); 11/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...SCREWBALL comedy actress Carole Lombard of My Man Godfrey (1936...Garbo and Wallace Beery. Lombard changed all that, putting...a healthy sense of humor, Lombard still proved to be a handful...plowed with a tractor, and Lombard cared for a large menagerie...the 1939 article titled, ... Read more
Love and Laughter: A Cinematic Valentine's Day Bouquet.(screwball and romantic film comedies)
Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine); 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...example, one has the zany conduct of Carole Lombard's socialite Irene Bullock in My...family to mental asylum patients, Lombard's screen father (Eugene Pallette...which The New Yorker likened to Lombard, has this crazy habitual desertion... Read more
Kyra Sedgwick.(Interview)
Magazine article from: Interview; 7/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...the balls. Grown men wept, grown women were proud, and anyone who'd ever seen Twentieth Century (1934) remembered Carole Lombard kicking John Barrymore in the stomach. At thirty, Sedgwick is liable to be more abrasive or acidic than, say, Meg... Read more
Letters to the editor 2007.
Newspaper article from: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA); 1/3/2008; 196 words ; ...Sahl Derek Pizzuto David McRae Peter Welland Holly Ouellette Nicholas Smyrnios Judy Vedder Ronald L. Lombard Sr. Ron Sanguinet Sandra Frye Carole Goral Debra Mullikin-Kilpatrick Dan Kilpatrick Maurice DePalo Bob Holland Pam Empie Johanna Musselman... Read more
North County Home Development Named Top Seller.
Magazine article from: San Diego Business Journal; 10/30/2000; ; 471 words ; ...located on the historic Leo Carrillo estate that was once a playground for Hollywood legends such as Clark Gable and Carole Lombard. Today, the homestead of actor and preservationist Leo Carrillo has been donated to the City of Carlsbad for future... Read more
The little town by the great big dam.(Boulder City, Nevada)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Sunset; 2/1/2001; ; 631 words ; ...Boulder City attracted celebrities and politicos to its grand Dutch colonial hotel and nearby theater. Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, Bette Davis, and John Wayne stayed here. With the remodel of the Boulder Dam Hotel just completed and the theater... Read more
Sixty years; a photographic journey.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2009; 142 words ; ...woman sitting in the ruins of Hiroshima, an exhausted child in China, a joyful woman in Barbados, even Clark Gable and Carole Lombard on honeymoon -- all of these pull the viewer in to the time and place, the moment in time in which they faced the... Read more
Screwballs of the silver screen: a treasured comedy genre turns 70: the 1934 releases of "It Happened One Night" and "Twentieth Century" launched Hollywood into an era of madcap zaniness that endures to this day.(Entertainment)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine); 3/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...picaresque picture, with a flamboyant Broadway producer (John Barrymore) attempting to convince a former protege/lover (Carole Lombard) to star in his next play as they cross America on the famous train Twentieth Century Limited. These two movies, and... Read more
Hollywood's dilemma about posthumous releases: audience's reactions to films distributed after the death of their stars have reflected mixed results. (Entertainment).
Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine); 5/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...disproves this premise. The victim was Carole Lombard, the country's designated Screwball...in the mountains near Las Vegas. Lombard's death occurred a month before...added footage needed to be shot, Lombard's death necessitated some of it... Read more
Medal winners.
Newspaper article from: Harborough Mail (Market Harborough, England); 4/27/2006; 169 words ; ...Nirmal Singh shot 88-20-68 to be overall winner of a medal/Lombard qualifier at Lutterworth GC. Roger Chater (85-16-69) was runner-...Bowl at Ullesthorpe was won by Ray and Kath Lea from John and Carole Pickering. Captains' drive-in winners were Julie Sewell (silver... Read more