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June 17, 2022,
She was the epitome of class, style and elegance.
Carole Lombard was born October 6, 1908.
She was particularly noted for her energetic, often off-beat roles in the screwball comedies of the 1930s. She was the highest-paid star in Hollywood in the late 1930s.
Was it really a much simpler time? We can imagine so.
Ms. Lombard was born into a wealthy family in Fort Wayne, Indiana, but was raised in Los Angeles by her single mother.
At age 12, she was recruited by the film director Allan Dwan and made her screen debut in A Perfect Crime (1921).
Ready to become an actress she signed a contract with the Fox Film Corporation at age 16, but mainly played bit parts.
Adversity soon set in.
She was dropped by Fox after a car accident left a scar on her face.
Carole appeared in 15 short comedies for Mack Sennett between 1927 and 1929, and then began appearing in feature films such as High Voltage and The Racketeer. After a successful appearance in The Arizona Kid (1930), she was signed to a contract with Paramount Pictures.
Paramount quickly began casting Lombard as a leading lady, primarily in drama films. Her profile increased when she married William Powell in 1931, but the couple divorced after two years.
A turning point in Carole’s career occurred when she starred in Howard Hawks‘ pioneering screwball comedy Twentieth Century (1934).
She would later marry the unofficial King of Hollywood in Clark Gable.
Determined to win an Oscar, at the end of the decade, Lombard began to move towards more serious roles. Unsuccessful in this aim, she returned to comedy in Alfred Hitchcock‘s Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941) and Ernst Lubitsch‘s To Be or Not to Be (1942), unfortunately her final film role.
Well as you might guess, tragedy struck again.
Carole’s career was cut short when she died at the age of 33 in an airplane crash on Mount Potosi, Nevada while returning from a war bond tour.
Carole’s life is a reminder to all of us that we only have today to say the right things, give our best and pursue our hopes and dreams every single day.
As we look back into the past we feel fortunate to remind ourselves of what a timeless, elegant and beauty that Ms. Lombard was.
She will always rank among the American Film Institute‘s greatest female stars of classic Hollywood cinema.
We can’t all be movie starts like Carole, but we sure can strive to live a life that speaks to class, elegance and style.
We have a visiting female writer with some suggestions.
How to Become More Classy and Gain More Respect
So you want to become more classy and gain more respect. You are tired of being disrespected, and determined to change that. Well, let’s talk about it.
How to Become More Classy
Many think you become more classy by improving your appearance. They think of classy people as those who are tony, chic, elegant, stylish, and fashionable.
Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary definition of classy employs words such as elegant, stylish, admirably skillful, graceful, attractive, and special. The examples it gives of being classy feature phrases such as “the classiest nightclub in Madrid” and “the spa boasts some very classy clients”.
How to become more classy is an endeavor, it seems, that depends on money. If you have more money to spend on the latest, most stylish fashions, you can become more classy. If you can afford a truly chic hairstyle, a full weekly manicure and a weekly pedicure, then you can become more classy. If you have more money to buy a tony car, you can become more classy.
This thinking has led men and women who have less money to spend foolishly. Depending on taxpayers for life’s necessities, many spend other monies on designer items such as sunglasses and handbags in an effort to become more classy. Sadly, these purchases do not gain more respect for their owners.
Good News
The good news is that respect is not based on your degree of class. Respect does not demand elegance, chic, style, skill, gracefulness, or attractiveness. Respect does not require that you be special in some way – or wealthy. Respect is as available to those who can barely make financial ends meet as it is to those who are rolling in wealth.
To learn how to become more classy and gain more respect is a flawed goal. Learning how to gain more respect is, however, an ideal goal. Let’s look at some realistic steps you can take to gain more respect.
How to Gain More Respect
Three steps stand between you and increased respect.
- Knowledge: Begin by gaining an understanding of true respect. Find a good definition of respect and memorize it. Study it and read articles about respect to be sure you know enough to explain authentic respect to someone else. Then move to Step #2.
- Desire: You probably think you already have a desire for more respect. You did when you decided to read this article, but maybe that desire was not for real respect. Maybe that was just a desire for people to treat you as though you’re important. Maybe you just wanted to wear a shiny crown and have people bow to you. You need to want the kind of respect in the definition mentioned in #1 above. Only then will you be ready to move to…
- Action: Use your tongue to speak to others and about others in a way that says you think they have great value. Dress your body in neat, clean (not expensive) clothing that shows others you think they have value. Do things for others that proves you think they are worthy of high esteem.
At this point, you may be frowning, shaking your head, and saying, “Stop! I wanted to learn how to become more classy and gain more respect for ME, not for others! You say I have to speak well about others, but I want them to speak well about ME! You tell me to dress modestly so I don’t offend others, but I want to dress like royalty so they’ll think I’m great! You insist that I go out of my way to do things for others that will prove I think they are worthy of me helping them, but I want to be the one served!”
Of course. You want to gain more respect for yourself than for others, as you say. The fact is, however, that we gain more respect from others when we first show more respect to others.
When we show others that we think they have value and are worthy of being regarded highly by us, we add more value to ourselves.
Conclusion
As a high school teacher and principal, I tangled frequently over the years with both students and parents who thought they deserved more respect. They were not willing to give respect to others, but they were sure others should show respect to them. Some learned the truth about real respect, and took appropriate steps to build it into their own lives. Sadly, others still want to learn how to become more classy in order to gain more respect. It will never happen.
© 2015, Elizabeth L Hamilton.
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