Carole Lombard Selected As Best-dressed Actress

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22670, 6 March 1937, Page 14 (Supplement)

Carole Lombard Selected As Best-dressed Actress

(CAROLE LOMBARD was the best dressed film actress on and of! the screen in 1936 by the vote of Hollywood dress designers. Greta Garbo received only 0110 vote and was not placed in the list of 13 finalists. Miss Lombard received seven votes out of a possible ten, and her closest rivals were Kay Francis, Marlene Dietrich and Norma Shearer. Each designer submitted a list of the actresses ho considered to be the best dressed. The 13 finalists and their votes were: Carole Lombard .. . . .. •• • • 7 Kay Francis, Marlene Dictnca, Norma Shearer 6 Claudette Colbert, Constance Bennett, Dolores del Rio, Joan Crawford 5 Verce Teasdale, Gloria Swanson, Madeleine Carroll, Myrna Loy, Joan Bennett 3 A total of 42 players was returned by the designers and the only non-actress named as a best-dressed woman was

Itita Kaufman Lowe, the wifo of Edmund Lowe, screen star. Claudette Colbert, placed equal fifth this year, was the winner in 1935 when Carole Lombard was placed only fourth. Among the surprises of the voting was the fact that Miss Gladys Swarthout failed to qualify for this year's "13 best." She was known formerly as the best-dressed opera singer and was on last year's list of 10 in the film colony. She received oidy two votes. Others whoso names appeared on two lists among those submitted by the judges were Merle Oberon, Irene Dunn, Olivia de Havilland, Virginia Bruce, Loretta Young, Hedda Hopper, Rosalind Russell and Ann Sothern. The designers were asked to give their judgments after consideration of the clothes worn in private life as well as on the screen. The ability of the players to wear clothes with style and correctness for different occasions were other points they were asked to consider.