The Dryden Theatre at George Eastman House celebrates the film career of actress Carole Lombard with a four-film series in April. Before Carole Lombard was Carole Lombard, she was Jane Peters, a bit player struggling away in forgettable B pictures until the legendary Mack Sennett cast her as one of his madcap players and helped her develop a keen sense of comic timing. Lombard’s star continued to rise through the early 1930s, but her first big break came in 1934 when Howard Hawks, charmed by her verve at a party, invited her to test for his latest film, Twentieth Century. More than holding her own opposite John Barrymore, the film was a critical and box office smash, and Carole Lombard suddenly, and surprisingly found herself as Hollywood’s new “it” girl.
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