Carole Lombard worked for Mack Sennett for a few years and reportedly was hit by pies, mud and water. IMDB has a list of some or all of her Sennett films. The problem would be figuring out which ones had WAM, finding decent prints or stills, and identifying her. (She may not have been featured.)
Because of this background at Sennett, and the fact that an auto accident left some scars on her face, biographers say she was willing to do just about any physical comedy -- something that carried over into stardom, as shown by "Godfrey."
Sleazoid44 said: Carole Lombard worked for Mack Sennett for a few years and reportedly was hit by pies, mud and water. IMDB has a list of some or all of her Sennett films. The problem would be figuring out which ones had WAM, finding decent prints or stills, and identifying her. (She may not have been featured.)
Because of this background at Sennett, and the fact that an auto accident left some scars on her face, biographers say she was willing to do just about any physical comedy -- something that carried over into stardom, as shown by "Godfrey."
Sadly, a large number of silent movies are now lost, so there's a good chance these films with her no long exist.
dougiezerts said: Sadly, a large number of silent movies are now lost, so there's a good chance these films with her no long exist.
Yes. There was a fire at an "archive" (warehouse) for many old films (Rochester NY?) and the films were very flammable. However, film historians are finding "lost" films all the time now -- the first half of "Battle of the Century" was found and restored in 2015 -- so there's hope. The technology that can restore even a poor quality print is improving all the time.
I don't know of any pies or slapstick scenes Lombard was in during her silent film era with Mack Sennett. The only silent film with wetlook I know she was in was "The Campus Vamp" which has a good wetlook scene with an older lady falling in a pond, but that was not Lombard.
Aside from My Man Godfrey, she did appear in wetlook scenes in 4 of her sound films.
- We're not Dressing (1934) - Love Before Breakfast (1936) - Nothing Sacred (1936) - Mr and Mrs Smith (1941)
I somehow doubt that she did any pie slapstick scenes for Sennett, because Sennett had the pie fights and slapstick in his Keystone Kops films, whereas Lombard worked in a different division as one of his Bathing Beauties, or as I used to sarcastically call them, the NON Bathing Beauties, because they rarely ever got their feet wet and all they did was to pose on the beach and on some rocks, but they rarely ever went in the water.