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Jean Harlow (born Harlean Harlow Carpenter; March 3, 1911 – June 7, 1937) was an American actress and sex symbol.[1] Often nicknamed the "Blonde Bombshell" and the "Platinum Blonde", she was popular for her "Laughing Vamp" screen persona. Harlow was in the film industry for only nine years, but she became one of the biggest movie stars in Hollywood, whose image in the public eye has endured. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Harlow No. 22 on their greatest female stars of Classic Hollywood Cinema list.[2] Harlow was first signed by business magnate Howard Hughes, who directed her first major role in Hell's Angels (1930). In 1932, after a series of critically unsuccessful films and Hughes's losing interest in her career, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) bought out Harlow's contract.[3] Harlow became a leading lady, starring in a string of hits that focused on her comedic talent including Red-Headed Woman (1932), Red Dust (1932), Dinner at Eight (1933), Reckless (1935) and Suzy (1936). Harlow's popularity rivaled and soon surpassed that of MGM colleagues Joan Crawford and Norma Shearer.
Harlow died of kidney failure in 1937 during filming of Saratoga. The film was completed by using body doubles, and MGM released it less than two months after her death with it becoming the second-highest grossing picture that year for the studio. Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2.1 1928–1929: Work as an extra 2.2 1929–1932: Platinum blonde star 2.3 1932–1937: Successful actress at MGM 3 Illness and death 4 Legacy 5 Novel 6 Film portrayals 7 Filmography 8 References 9 Sources 10 Further reading 11 External links Early life



Harlow was born as Harlean Harlow Carpenter[4] in a house located at 3344 Olive Street in Kansas City, Missouri.[5] Her father, Mont Clair Carpenter (1877–1974), son of Abraham L. Carpenter and Dianna (née Beal), was a dentist who attended dental school in Kansas City. He was from a working-class background.[6] Jean Harlow with her mother in 1934 Her mother, Jean Poe Carpenter (née Harlow; 1891–1958), was the daughter of wealthy real estate broker Skip Harlow and his wife, Ella Harlow (née Williams). In 1908, her father arranged her marriage to Mont Clair Carpenter. She was underage at the time and grew resentful and unhappy in the marriage, but they remained together living in a Kansas City house owned by her father.[7] Harlean was called "The Baby", a nickname that endured for the rest of her life. She was so accustomed to being called "The Baby" that she did not learn that her real name was Harlean until she was five years old, when staff and students at Miss Barstow's Finishing School for Girls used the name.[8] Harlean was always very close to her mother, who was extremely protective and was reported to have instilled a sense in her daughter that she owed everything she had to her, "She was always all mine!", Mama Jean said of her daughter.[9] (Jean Carpenter became known as "Mama Jean" when Harlean achieved star status as Jean Harlow.) When Harlean was at school, her mother filed for a divorce. On September 29, 1922, the uncontested divorce was finalized, giving sole custody of Harlean to her mother. Although Harlean loved her father, she didn't see him often before her untimely death and he outlived her by thirty-seven years.[10] In 1923, a 34-year-old Jean Carpenter took her daughter and moved to Hollywood in hopes of becoming an actress. However, Mama Jean was told that she was too old to begin a film career.[11] Young Harlean attended the Hollywood School for Girls and while there met Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Joel McCrea, and Irene Mayer Selznick. She dropped out of school at age 14, in the spring of 1925.[12] With their finances dwindling, Jean and Harlean moved back to Kansas City after Skip Harlow issued an ultimatum that he would disinherit Jean if they did not return. Several weeks later, Skip sent his granddaughter to summer camp at Camp Cha-Ton-Ka, in Michigamme, Michigan, where she became ill with scarlet fever. Her mother traveled to Michigan to care for Harlean, rowing herself across the lake to the camp, but was told that she could not see her daughter.[13] Harlean next attended the Ferry Hall School (now Lake Forest Academy) in Lake Forest, Illinois. Jean Carpenter had an ulterior motive for her daughter's attendance at this particular school: It was close to the Chicago home of her boyfriend, Marino Bello.[14] During Harlean's freshman year at the school, she was paired with a "big sister" from the senior class who introduced her to 19-year-old Charles "Chuck" Fremont McGrew, an heir to a large fortune. By the fall of 1926, Harlean and Chuck were dating seriously, and they were married in 1927.[15] Jean Carpenter was also married that same year to Marino Bello, on January 18th. However, Harlean did not attend her mother's wedding.[16] In 1928, the McGrews left Chicago and moved to Beverly Hills.[17] Chuck McGrew turned 21 two months after the marriage and received part of his large inheritance. The couple moved to Los Angeles, settling into a home in Beverly Hills where Harlean thrived as a wealthy socialite. McGrew hoped to distance Harlean from her mother with the move. Neither Chuck nor Harlean worked during this time, and both were considered heavy drinkers. Career 1928–1929: Work as an extra While living in Los Angeles, Harlean befriended a young aspiring actress named Rosalie Roy. Not owning a car herself, Rosalie asked Harlean to drive her to Fox Studios for an appointment. While waiting for Rosalie, Harlean was noticed and approached by Fox executives, whom she told she was not interested. Nevertheless, she was given letters of introduction to Central Casting. A few days later, Rosalie Roy bet Harlean that she did not have the nerve to go in for an audition. Unwilling to lose a wager and pressed by her enthusiastic mother who had followed her daughter to Los Angeles by this time, Harlean went to Central Casting and signed in under her mother's maiden name, Jean Harlow.[18] After several calls from casting and a number of rejected job offers by Harlean, Mother Jean finally pressed her into accepting work at the studio. Harlean appeared in her first film, Honor Bound (1928), as an unbilled "extra" for $7 a day and a box lunch, common pay for such work.[19][20] This led to a wage increase to $10 per day and small parts in feature films such as Moran of the Marines (1928) and the Charley Chase lost film, Chasing Husbands (1928).[20] In December 1928, Harlean as Jean Harlow signed a five-year contract with Hal Roach Studios for $100 per week.[21] She had small roles in the 1929 Laurel and Hardy shorts: Double Whoopee, Liberty and Bacon Grabbers, with the latter giving her a costarring credit.[22][23] Jean Arthur, Clara Bow, Harlow, and Leone Lane in The Saturday Night Kid, where Harlow had her first speaking part In March 1929, she parted with Hal Roach, who tore up her contract after Harlow told him, "It's breaking up my marriage, what can I do?"[24]In June 1929, Harlow separated from her husband and moved in with Mother Jean and Bello.[24] After her separation from McGrew, Harlow continued working as an "extra" in such films as This Thing Called Love (1929), Close Harmony (1929), and The Love Parade (1929), until she landed her first speaking role in the 1929 Clara Bow film, The Saturday Night Kid.[25][23] Harlow and her husband divorced in 1929.[17] 1929–1932: Platinum blonde star In late 1929, Harlow was spotted by Ben Lyon, an actor filming Howard Hughes' Hell's Angels;[26] another account gives Angels head cameraman Arthur Landau as the man that spotted and suggested her to Hughes.[27] Hughes was reshooting most of his originally silent film with sound and needed an actress to replace Greta Nissen, whose Norwegian accent was undesirable for her character. Harlow screen tested for Hughes, who gave her the part[28][29]and signed her to a five-year, $100-per-week contract on October 24, 1929. During filming, Harlow met MGM executive Paul Bern. Harlow and Ben Lyon in Hell's Angels (1930), her first major film appearance Hell's Angels premiered in Hollywood at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on May 27, 1930, and became the highest-grossing film of that year, besting even Greta Garbo's talkie debut in Anna Christie. Hell's Angels made Harlow an international star. Though she was popular with audiences, the critics were less than enthusiastic.[30] The New Yorker called her performance "plain awful",[31] though Variety magazine conceded, "It doesn't matter what degree of talent she possesses ... nobody ever starved possessing what she's got."[30] In spite of her relative success with Hell's Angels, Harlow again found herself in the role of "uncredited extra" in the Charlie Chaplin film City Lights (1931), though her appearance did not make the final cut.[32][33] With no other projects planned for Harlow at the time, Hughes decided to send her to New York, Seattle, and Kansas City for Hell's Angels premieres.[34] In 1931, his Caddo Company loaned her out to other studios, where she gained more attention by appearing in The Secret Six, with Wallace Beery and Clark Gable; Iron Man, with Lew Ayres and Robert Armstrong; and The Public Enemy, with James Cagney. Even though the successes of these films ranged from moderate to hit, Harlow's acting ability was mocked by critics.[35] Hughes sent her on a brief publicity tour in order to bolster her career, but this was not a success as Harlow dreaded making personal appearances.[36] Harlow briefly dated Abner Zwillman, and he got her a two-picture deal at Columbia Pictures by making a large cash loan to studio head Harry Cohn. Zwillman bought Harlow a jeweled bracelet and a red Cadillac, but reportedly referred to her in derogatory and vulgar terms when speaking to other associated crime figures, as revealed in secret surveillance recordings.[37][38][39] Harlow was next cast in Platinum Blonde (1931), for Columbia Pictures, with Loretta Young. The film was originally titled Gallagher, but renamed by Hughes to capitalize on her hair color, called "platinum" by Hughes' publicists.[40] Though Harlow denied her hair was dyed,[41] the platinum blonde color was reportedly achieved by bleaching with a weekly application of ammonia, Clorox bleach, and Lux soap flakes. This process weakened and damaged Harlow's naturally ash-blonde hair.[42] Many female fans began dyeing their hair to match hers and Hughes' team organized a series of "Platinum Blonde" clubs across the nation offering a prize of $10,000 to any beautician who could match Harlow's shade.[40] No one could, and the prize went unclaimed, however, the publicity scheme worked and the "Platinum Blonde" nickname stuck with Harlow. Harlow next filmed Three Wise Girls (1932), for Columbia Pictures, with Mae Clarke and Walter Byron. Paul Bern then arranged to borrow her for The Beast of the City (1932), co-starring Walter Huston. After filming, Bern booked a 10-week personal-appearance tour on the East Coast. To the surprise of many, especially Harlow herself, she packed every theater in which she appeared, often appearing in a single venue for several nights. Despite critical disparagement and poor roles, Harlow's popularity and following were large and growing, and in February 1932, the tour was extended by six weeks.[43] According to Fay Wray, who played Ann Darrow in RKO Pictures's King Kong (1933), Harlow was the original choice to play the screaming blonde heroine, but was under an exclusive contract with MGM during the film's pre-production phase—and the part went to Wray, a brunette who had to wear a blonde wig.[44] When mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel came to Hollywood to expand casino operations, Harlow became the informal godmother of Siegel's eldest daughter, Millicent, when the family lived in Beverly Hills.[45][46][47][48] 1932–1937: Successful actress at MGM Paul Bern was now romantically involved with Harlow and spoke to Louis B. Mayer about buying out her contract with Hughes and signing her to MGM, but Mayer declined. MGM's leading ladies were presented as elegant, and Harlow's screen persona wasn't to Mayer. Bern then began urging close friend Irving Thalberg, production head of MGM, to sign Harlow, noting her popularity and established image. After initial reluctance, Thalberg agreed and on March 3, 1932, Harlow's 21st birthday, Bern called her with the news that MGM had purchased her contract from Hughes for $30,000. Harlow officially joined the studio on April 20, 1932.[49] Harlow received recognition as an actress in Red-Headed Woman, her first MGM film; she wore a red wig for the role. At MGM, Harlow was given superior movie roles to show off her looks and nascent comedic talent. Though Harlow's screen persona changed dramatically during her career, one constant was her sense of humor. In 1932, she starred in the comedy Red-Headed Woman for which she received $1,250 a week. It was the first film in which she "resembles something of an actress", portraying a woman who is successful at being amoral in a film that doesn't moralize or punish the character for her behavior.[50] The film is often noted as being one of the few films in which Harlow did not appear with platinum blonde hair; she wore a red wig for the role.[42][51] While Harlow was filming Red-Headed Woman, actress Anita Page passed her on the studio lot without acknowledging her. She later told Page that the snub had caused her to cry until she saw herself, noticed the red wig, and burst out laughing when she realized Page hadn't recognized her.[52] "That shows you how sensitive she was", Page said. "She was a lovely person in so many ways."[53] She next starred in Red Dust, her second film with Clark Gable. Harlow and Gable worked well together and co-starred in a total of six films.[54] She was also paired multiple times with Spencer Tracy and William Powell. MGM began trying to distinguish Harlow's public persona from her screen characters by putting out press releases that her childhood surname was not the common 'Carpenter' but the chic 'Carpentiér', claiming that writer Edgar Allan Poe was one of her ancestors and publishing photographs of her doing charity work to change her image to that of an all-American woman. This transformation proved difficult; once, Harlow was heard muttering, "My God, must I always wear a low-cut dress to be important?"[55] During the making of Red Dust, Bern—her husband of two months—was found dead at their home; this created a lasting scandal. Initially, Harlow was suspected of killing Bern,[56] but his death was officially ruled a suicide by self-inflicted gunshot wound. Louis B. Mayer feared negative publicity from the incident and intended to replace Harlow in the film, offering the role to Tallulah Bankhead. Bankhead was appalled by the offer and wrote in her autobiography, "To damn the radiant Jean for the misfortune of another would be one of the shabbiest acts of all time. I told Mr. Mayer as much." Harlow kept silent, survived the ordeal, and became more popular than ever. A 2009 biography of Bern asserted that Bern was, in fact, murdered by a former lover and the crime scene re-arranged by MGM executives to make it appear Bern had killed himself.[57] After Bern's death, Harlow began an indiscreet affair with boxer Max Baer who, though separated from his wife Dorothy Dunbar, was threatened with divorce proceedings naming Harlow as a co-respondent for alienation of affection, a legal term for adultery. After Bern's death, the studio did not want another scandal and defused the situation by arranging a marriage between Harlow and cinematographer Harold Rosson. Rosson and Harlow were friends, and Rosson went along with the plan. They quietly divorced eight months later.[58][59] Harlow with Clark Gable in 1933's Hold Your Man, another successful film pairing of the two and box office success for MGM By 1933, MGM realized the value of the Harlow-Gable team and paired them again in Hold Your Man (1933), which was also a box-office success. In the same year, she played the adulterous wife of Wallace Beery in the all-star comedy-drama Dinner at Eight, and played a pressured Hollywood film star in the screwball comedy Bombshell with Lee Tracy. The film has been said to be based on Harlow's own life or that of 1920s "It girl" Clara Bow. The following year, she was teamed with Lionel Barrymore and Franchot Tone in The Girl from Missouri (1934). The film was the studio's attempt to soften Harlow's image, but suffered from censorship problems, so much so that its original title, Born to Be Kissed, had to be changed.[60] After the financial success of Red Dust and Hold Your Man, MGM cast Harlow with Clark Gable in two more successful films: China Seas (1935), with Wallace Beery and Rosalind Russell; and Wife vs. Secretary (1936), with Myrna Loy and James Stewart. Stewart later spoke of a scene in a car with Harlow in Wife vs. Secretary, saying, "Clarence Brown, the director, wasn't too pleased by the way I did the smooching. He made us repeat the scene about half a dozen times ... I botched it up on purpose. That Jean Harlow sure was a good kisser. I realized that until then, I had never been really kissed."[61] Harlow in a trailer for Riffraff (1936). Harlow in a trailer for Libeled Lady (1936). From 1933 onward, Harlow was consistently voted one of the strongest box office draws in the United States, often outranking her female colleagues at MGM in audience popularity polls. Reckless (1935) was her first movie musical. It co-starred her then-boyfriend William Powell and Franchot Tone. When her character sings in the movie, the voice is that of skilled vocalist Virginia Verrill. By the mid-1930s, Harlow was one of the biggest stars in the United States, and, it was hoped, MGM's next Greta Garbo. Still young, her star continued to rise while the popularity of other female stars at MGM, such as Garbo, Joan Crawford and Norma Shearer, waned. Harlow's movies continued to make huge profits at the box office even during the middle of the Depression. After her third marriage ended in 1934, Harlow met William Powell, another MGM star, and quickly fell in love. The couple was reportedly engaged for two years,[62] but differences that ranged from past marriages to Powell's uncertainty about the future, kept them from publicly formalizing their relationship.[63] MGM also liked the box office of the attainable, single Harlow. Suzy (1936), in which she played the title role, gave her top billing over Franchot Tone and Cary Grant. While critics noted that Harlow dominated the film, it was a reasonable box-office success. She then starred in Riffraff (1936) with Spencer Tracy and Una Merkel, a financial disappointment, and the worldwide hit Libeled Lady (1936), in which she was top-billed over Powell, Myrna Loy, and Tracy. She then filmed W.S. Van Dyke's comedy Personal Property (1937), co-starring Robert Taylor. It was Harlow's final completed motion picture appearance.[64] Illness and death On January 30, 1937, Jean Harlow stands beside Eleanor Roosevelt with other celebrities invited to Washington, D.C. for the President's Birthday Ball. In January 1937, Harlow and Robert Taylor traveled to Washington, D.C., to take part in fundraising activities associated with President Franklin D. Roosevelt's birthday, for the organization later known as the March of Dimes.[65][66] The trip was physically taxing for Harlow, and she contracted influenza. She recovered in time to attend the Academy Awards ceremony with William Powell.[64] Filming for Harlow's final film, Saratoga, co-starring Clark Gable, was scheduled to begin in March 1937. However, production was delayed when she developed sepsis after a multiple wisdom tooth extraction and had to be hospitalized. Almost two months later, Harlow recovered, and shooting began on April 22, 1937.[67] On May 20, 1937, during the filming of Saratoga, Harlow began to complain of illness. Her symptoms—fatigue, nausea, fluid retention and abdominal pain—did not seem very serious to her doctor, who believed that she was suffering from cholecystitis and influenza. Unfortunately, the doctor was not aware that Harlow had been ill during the previous year with a severe sunburn and influenza.[68] Her friend and co-star, Una Merkel, noticed Harlow's gray pallor, fatigue and weight gain on the set of Saratoga.[69] On May 29, 1937, Harlow filmed a scene in which the character she was playing had a fever. Harlow was clearly sicker than her character. She leaned against co-star Gable between scenes and said, "I feel terrible! Get me back to my dressing room." Harlow requested that the assistant director telephone William Powell, who immediately left his own movie set, in order to escort Harlow back home.[70] This photo with director Jack Conway and Clark Gable on the set of Saratoga was taken only minutes before Harlow's collapse and was issued at the time her death was announced. The next day, Powell checked on Harlow and discovered that her condition had not improved. He contacted her mother and insisted that she cut her holiday short to come be at her daughter's side. Powell also summoned a doctor. [70] Because Harlow's previous illnesses had delayed the shooting of three movies (Wife vs. Secretary, Suzy, and Libeled Lady), initially there was no great concern regarding Harlow's latest bout with a recurring illness. On June 2, 1937, it was announced that Harlow was again suffering from influenza.[71] Dr. Ernest Fishbaugh who had been called to Harlow's home to treat her, diagnosed her with an inflamed gallbladder.[72] Harlow felt better on June 3, 1937, and co-workers expected her back on the set by Monday, June 7, 1937.[73] Press reports were contradictory, with headlines reading "Jean Harlow seriously ill" and "Harlow recovers from illness crisis."[74] Clark Gable, who visited Harlow during this time, later remarked that she was severely bloated and that he smelled urine on her breath when he kissed her — both signs of kidney failure.[72] Dr. Leland Chapman, a colleague of Fishbaugh, was called in to give a second opinion on Harlow's condition. Chapman recognized that she was not suffering from an inflamed gallbladder, but was in the final stages of kidney failure.[72] On June 6, 1937, Harlow said that she could not see Powell clearly and could not tell how many fingers he was holding up.[75] That evening, she was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, where she slipped into a coma.[76] The next day at 11:37 a.m., Harlow died in the hospital at the age of 26. In the doctor's press releases, the cause of death was given as cerebral edema, a complication of kidney failure.[77] Hospital records mention uremia.[78] For years, rumors circulated about Harlow's death. Some claimed that her mother had refused to call a doctor because she was a Christian Scientist or that Harlow had declined hospital treatment or surgery.[79] The Jean Harlow crypt in the Great Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Glendale reads "Our Baby" Jean Harlow's bed in the Jean Harlow Museum in Black Canyon City, Arizona From the onset of her illness, Harlow had been attended by a doctor while she was resting at home. Two nurses also visited her house, and various equipment was brought from a nearby hospital.[80] Harlow's grayish complexion, recurring illnesses, and severe sunburn were signs of the disease.[81] Toxins also adversely affected her brain and central nervous system.[81] She had suffered from scarlet fever at age 15. Speculation that Harlow suffered a poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis following the scarlet fever incident, which may have caused high blood pressure and ultimately kidney failure, has been suggested.[82] Harlow's death certificate gives the causes of her death as "acute respiratory infection", "acute nephritis", and "uremia".[83] One of the MGM writers later said, "The day Baby died...there wasn't one sound in the commissary for three hours."[84] Spencer Tracy wrote in his diary, "Jean Harlow died today. Grand gal." MGM closed on the day of her funeral, June 9, 1937. Harlow was interred in the Great Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale in a private room of multicolored marble, which William Powell bought for $25,000.[85] She was laid to rest in the gown she wore in Libeled Lady; in her hands she had a white gardenia and a note that Powell had written: "Goodnight, my dearest darling." Harlow's inscription reads, "Our Baby".[86] Spaces in the same room were reserved for Harlow's mother and Powell.[85] Harlow's mother was buried there in 1958, but Powell married actress Diana Lewis in 1940. After his death in 1984, he was cremated[87] and his ashes buried in Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City, California. MGM planned to replace Harlow in Saratoga with either Jean Arthur or Virginia Bruce, but due to public objections the film was finished using three doubles (one for close-ups, one for long shots, and one for dubbing Harlow's lines) and rewriting some scenes without her.[88] Saratoga was released on July 23, 1937, less than two months after Harlow's death and it was a hit with audiences.[89][90] Saratoga became MGM's second-highest grossing picture of 1937.[91] Legacy Harlow's Hollywood Walk of Fame star Her name was given to a cocktail, the Jean Harlow, which is equal parts light rum and sweet vermouth.[92][93] Blues singer Lead Belly wrote the song, Jean Harlow , while in prison, upon hearing about her death.[94] The French composer Charles Koechlin composed the piece 'Épitaphe de Jean Harlow' (opus 164) in 1937.[95] On February 8, 1960, Jean Harlow was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6910 Hollywood Boulevard on the south part of the Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, CA. Harlow's signature, hands and footprints were imprinted in cement on September 29, 1933, in the 24th ceremony at Grauman's Chinese Theater and are located near the forecourt on the west side of the box office at 6925 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, CA.[96][97] A woman's hair color is referenced as being Harlow gold in the first line of Kim Carnes' 1981 hit song Bette Davis Eyes,[98] and is one of sixteen Hollywood icons named in Madonna's 1990 hit song Vogue in the rap lyrics: "Harlow, Jean, Picture of a beauty queen."[99] Novel Main article: Today is Tonight Harlow wrote a novel titled Today is Tonight. In Arthur Landau's introduction to the 1965 paperback edition, Harlow stated her intention to write the book around 1933–1934, but it was not published during her lifetime. During her life, Harlow's stepfather Marino Bello shopped the unpublished manuscript around to a few studios.[100] Louis B. Mayer, head of MGM, had prevented the book from being sold by putting an injunction on it using a clause in Harlow's contract: her services as an artist can't be used without MGM's permission.[100] After her death, Landau writes, her mother sold the film rights to MGM, though no film was made. The publication rights were passed from Harlow's mother to a family friend, and the book was finally published in 1965.[101] Film portrayals Film adaptations of Harlow's life were considered at different times during the 1950s. Twentieth Century-Fox had slated Jayne Mansfield for the role and ideas for Columbia Pictures actress Cleo Moore to play Harlow were also tabled. These projects never materialized. Actress Marilyn Monroe was given a Harlow script in 1953, however, she turned down the part of her idol, feeling it was underdeveloped.[102] In 1965, two films about Jean Harlow were released, both called Harlow. The first film was released by Magna in May 1965 and stars Carol Lynley.[103] The second was released in June 1965 by Paramount Pictures and stars Carroll Baker.[104] Both were poorly received and did not perform well at the box office.[105] In 1978, Lindsay Bloom portrayed her in Hughes and Harlow: Angels in Hell.[106] In August 1993, Sharon Stone hosted a documentary about Harlow titled Harlow: The Blonde Bombshell, which aired on Turner Classic Movies.[107] In 2004, Gwen Stefani briefly appeared as Harlow in Martin Scorsese's Howard Hughes biopic The Aviator.[108] Jean Harlow (1911–1937) was an American actress, known for her sense of humor, who starred in a series of financially successful motion pictures throughout the 1930s. Harlow made her film debut in Honor Bound (1928) as an unbilled "extra". She would go on to appear in several films as an "extra" for the next two years. Her first speaking role was a bit part in The Saturday Night Kid (1929). In 1930, she became an overnight film sensation after starring in Hell's Angels, as a last-minute replacement for Norwegian actress Greta Nissen. Harlow in Red Dust (1932), one of her six film pairings with Clark Gable Hell's Angels propelled Harlow to superstar status, but she struggled to find quality work in her subsequent films. Her performances in movies like The Secret Six (1931), her first film pairing opposite Clark Gable, and The Public Enemy (1931), opposite James Cagney, drew negative reviews from critics. In 1932, she signed an exclusive contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and became one of the studio's most popular actresses. She starred in Red-Headed Woman (1932) and in Red Dust (1932), which capitalized on her "laughing vamp" image and achieved her recognition as a film comedienne. From 1933 onward, Harlow was consistently voted as one of the top box office draws in America. Her popularity continued to grow throughout the mid-to-late 1930s, and her fame soon surpassed her MGM colleagues, including Joan Crawford and Norma Shearer. She was often publicized as being MGM's most bankable actress, and it was hoped that she would become the studio's successor to Greta Garbo. Late in her career, she starred in China Seas (1935) with Clark Gable and Wallace Beery, Suzy (1936) with Cary Grant and Franchot Tone, Libeled Lady (1936) with William Powell, Spencer Tracy, and Myrna Loy, and Personal Property (1937) with Robert Taylor. Harlow in Libeled Lady (1936) During the filming of Saratoga in June 1937, Harlow collapsed on the set. While she continued to remain ill, MGM waited for her recovery to return to filming. However, Harlow died on June 7, 1937, at the age of 26. Her cause of death has been described as "kidney failure". Originally, Harlow was to be replaced in Saratoga with either Jean Arthur or Virginia Bruce, but public complaints led to MGM completing the film that was already 90% completed, with three Harlow look-a-likes (one for close-ups, one for long-distance shots, and another to dub Harlow's voice). When the film was released, it became the highest-earning film of her career, and critics proclaimed it her best performance. Film appearances Year Title Role Notes 1928 Honor Bound Uncredited, Unconfirmed 1928 Moran of the Marines Uncredited, lost film 1929 Fugitives Uncredited 1929 Why Be Good? Blonde on Rooftop Bench at Junior's Second Party Uncredited 1929 Close Harmony Chorus Girl Uncredited 1929 Masquerade Uncredited 1929 The Saturday Night Kid Hazel Uncredited 1929 The Love Parade Lady-in-Waiting Uncredited 1929 This Thing Called Love Uncredited, only technicolor sequence of film survives 1929 New York Nights Party Guest Uncredited 1930 Hell's Angels Helen 1931 City Lights "Extra" in restaurant scene Uncredited 1931 The Secret Six Anne Courtland 1931 The Public Enemy Gwen Allen 1931 Iron Man Rose Mason 1931 Goldie Goldie 1931 Platinum Blonde Anne Schuyler 1932 Three Wise Girls Cassie Barnes 1932 The Beast of the City Daisy Stevens, aka Mildred Beaumont 1932 Scarface Blonde at Paradise Club Uncredited 1932 Red-Headed Woman Lillian "Lil" / "Red" Andrews Legendre 1932 Red Dust Vantine 1933 Hold Your Man Ruby Adams 1933 Dinner at Eight Kitty Packard 1933 Bombshell Lola Burns 1934 The Girl from Missouri Eadie 1935 Reckless Mona Leslie 1935 China Seas Dolly "China Doll" Portland 1936 Riffraff Hattie 1936 Wife vs. Secretary Helen "Whitey" Wilson 1936 Suzy Suzy 1936 Libeled Lady Gladys Benton 1937 Personal Property Crystal Wetherby 1937 Saratoga Carol Clayton (final film role) Short subjects Year Title Role Notes 1928 Chasing Husbands Bathing beauty Uncredited 1929 Liberty Woman in cab as Harlean Carpenter 1929 Why Is a Plumber? 1929 The Unkissed Man Uncredited 1929 Double Whoopee Swanky blonde 1929 Thundering Toupees 1929 Bacon Grabbers Mrs. Kennedy 1929 Weak But Willing 1931 Beau Hunks Jeanie-Weenie (in photo) Uncredited 1932 Screen Snapshots Herself 1933 Hollywood on Parade No. A-12 Herself 1933 Hollywood on Parade No. B-1 Herself 1934 Hollywood on Parade No. B-6 Herself 1937 The Candid Camera Story (Very Candid) of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures 1937 Convention Herself


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