https://freerepublic.com/tag/carollombard/ en-us Sun, 12 Jul 2026 18:05:34 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4387698/posts During filming of We're Not Dressing, a 1934 musical comedy that came out a month before Carole Lombard ascended into the top rank of screwball comedy heroines with Twentieth Century, her co-star Bing Crosby discovered that the actress had a rather extreme reaction to her one notable phobia. As recalled by Gary Giddins in Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams: The Early Years 1903-1940, Crosby had to slap Lombard in one scene. "At her request, he refrained during rehearsal, but when the scene was filmed, she responded violently. Howard Hawks liked to take credit for creating Lombard as a comic... Steyn On-Line https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4387698/posts#comment Sun, 12 Jul 2026 18:05:34 GMT