"Harlow (Paramount film) Harlow is a 1965 American biographical film directed by Gordon Douglas about the life of film star Jean Harlow. It stars Carroll Baker in the title role, and Raf Vallone, Red Buttons, Angela Lansbury, Peter Lawford, Martin Balsam, and Leslie Nielsen in supporting roles. It was released by Paramount Pictures, shortly after another film with the same title and subject. Although the film failed commercially, it was successful in launching the hit song, ""Girl Talk"" by Neal Hefti. The film opens with Harlow as a struggling extra and bit actress dealing with her greedy stepfather Marino (Raf"
"Harlow (Magna film) Harlow is a fictionalized drama based on the life of film star Jean Harlow, released in 1965, with Carol Lynley in the title role. It was released shortly before Paramount Pictures' film on the same subject. This was Ginger Rogers' last film appearance. The film was directed by Alex Segal. Noticing a beautiful girl in the background of a Laurel and Hardy film, actor Marc Peters tips off studio mogul Jonathan Martin, who arranges a screen test. Jean Harlow is an overnight success. Harlow isn't a trained thespian, and is mocked by experienced actor William Mansfield, but"
"Harlow's actual age than Baker, the film's contrived plot and visibly low budget prevented it from gaining as much attention as Paramount's big-budget version. Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.'s, character, William Mansfield, is based on William Powell. That part of Harlow's life was entirely ignored by the Paramount feature. Harlow (Magna film) Harlow is a fictionalized drama based on the life of film star Jean Harlow, released in 1965, with Carol Lynley in the title role. It was released shortly before Paramount Pictures' film on the same subject. This was Ginger Rogers' last film appearance. The film was directed by Alex Segal."
"Jean Harlow Jean Harlow (born Harlean Harlow Carpenter; March 3, 1911 – June 7, 1937) was an American film actress and sex symbol of the 1930s. Harlow was signed by director Howard Hughes, and her first major appearance was in ""Hell's Angels"" (1930), followed by a series of critically unsuccessful films before she signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1932. Harlow became a leading lady for MGM, starring in a string of hit films, including ""Red Dust"" (1932), ""Dinner at Eight"" (1933), ""Reckless"" (1935), and ""Suzy"" (1936). Harlow's popularity rivaled and soon surpassed that of her MGM colleagues Joan Crawford and Norma"
"Jean Harlow filmography 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. ""Hell's Angels"" propelled"
"In 1978, Lindsay Bloom portrayed her in """". In 2004, Gwen Stefani briefly appeared as Harlow in Martin Scorsese's Howard Hughes biopic ""The Aviator"". In August 1993, Sharon Stone hosted a documentary about Harlow titled ""Harlow: The Blonde Bombshell"", which aired on Turner Classic Movies. Her name is lent to a cocktail, the Jean Harlow, which is equal parts light rum and sweet vermouth. Jean Harlow Jean Harlow (born Harlean Harlow Carpenter; March 3, 1911 – June 7, 1937) was an American film actress and sex symbol of the 1930s. Harlow was signed by director Howard Hughes, and her first"
"of her career, and critics proclaimed it her best performance. Jean Harlow filmography 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"
"with domestic box-office receipts of $13,000,000, and marked the beginning of a tumultuous relationship with the film's producer, Joseph E. Levine. Based on her ""Carpetbaggers"" performance, Levine began to develop Baker as a movie sex symbol, and she appeared posing in the December 1964 issue of ""Playboy"". She was subsequently cast by Levine in the title roles of two 1965 potboilers— ""Sylvia"", as an ex-prostitute and con artist, and as Jean Harlow in ""Harlow"". Baker appeared on the cover of the ""Saturday Evening Post"" on their November 2, 1963, issue dressed as Harlow, promoting the film's upcoming production. In 1965,"
"Bello. After her separation from McGrew, Harlow worked as an ""extra"" in several movies. She landed her first speaking role in 1929's ""The Saturday Night Kid"", starring Clara Bow.. The couple divorced in 1929. In late 1929, Jean was spotted by James Hall, an actor filming Howard Hughes' ""Hell's Angels"". Hughes, reshooting most of the originally silent film with sound, needed an actress to replace Greta Nissen, who had a Norwegian accent that was considered to be undesirable for her character. Harlow made a test and got the part. Hughes signed Harlow to a five-year, $100-per-week contract on October 24,"
"contract player for Paramount Pictures, Baker became a sex symbol after appearing as a hedonistic widow in ""The Carpetbaggers"" (1964). The film's producer, Joseph E. Levine, cast her in the potboiler ""Sylvia"" before giving her the role of Jean Harlow in the biopic ""Harlow"" (1965). Despite significant prepublicity, ""Harlow"" was a critical failure, and Baker relocated to Italy in 1966 amid a legal dispute over her contract with Paramount and Levine's overseeing of her career. In Europe, she spent the next 10 years starring in hard-edged giallo and horror films, including Umberto Lenzi's ""Orgasmo"" (1969) and ""Knife of Ice"" (1972),"
"Jean Harlow, Bette Davis, Ned Sparks, Hugh Herbert, W. C. Fields, Clark Gable, Groucho and Harpo Marx, Johnny Weissmuller (in character as Tarzan) and Lupe Vélez, Mae West, Lionel and John Barrymore, Laurel and Hardy, Edward G. Robinson, Fred Astaire, and George Raft. Musical entertainments are provided by Dame Edna May Oliver as ""The Lady in Red"", the Dionne quintuplets (who were in reality only two years old at the time) and Helen Morgan, sitting on the piano, turning on the tears with a torch song causing most of the guests to cry (except Ben Birdie and a few of"
"Harlow, the studio at first attempted to borrow Carole Lombard from Paramount Pictures, but could not do so because of contractual difficulties. After this, it was reported that Joan Crawford would play Harlow's role, but by 1937, Harlow was reported as the star. Walter Pidgeon was borrowed from Universal for the film. Background filming took place in Lexington and Louisville, Kentucky as well as in Saratoga, New York. At the time of filming, Harlow was suffering from the aftermath of oral surgery to remove impacted wisdom teeth. Paul Bern, her second husband, had mysteriously died several years before, and she"
"in Broadway productions before her screen debut in ""Easy to Love"" (1953). After the critical success of ""Baby Doll"", Baker worked consistently throughout the 1960s, starring in westerns such as ""How the West Was Won"" (1962), as well as independent films such as ""Something Wild"" (1961) and melodramas ""The Carpetbaggers"" (1964) and ""Sylvia"" (1965). After portraying Jean Harlow in 1965's ""Harlow"", Baker initiated a legal dispute over her contract with Paramount Pictures, which ultimately led to her being blacklisted in Hollywood. Baker moved to Europe in the late 1960s, where she starred in multiple Italian horror and giallo films. She"
"is Mansfield, who also begins falling in love with her. Harlow, however, contracts a serious illness, and at the tender age of 26, she is gone. Judy Garland was originally cast in Ginger Rogers' role. Filmed in black-and-white electronovision – a photographic technique relegated to television by 1965 – the Magna version was shot in just eight days, and put out five weeks before Paramount's, with a more limited release. Directed by television veteran Alex Segal, the film was made on a very low budget, and served as a second feature at most theaters. While Lynley was closer to Jean"
"worker, Frank Ryan; they lived in Jamaica, Queens. She died in 1982, in Brooklyn, aged 78 years. Her nephew is Robert Parris Moses, a civil rights activist and educator. Ethel Moses Ethel Moses (April 29, 1904 – June 1982) was an American actress and dancer, billed as ""the black Jean Harlow"". She is best known for working in films by Oscar Micheaux. Ethel Moses was born in Staunton, Virginia and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of William Henry Moses and Julia Trent Moses. Her sisters Lucia and Julia also became performers; their brother Bill taught at Hampton Institute. Their"
"special brassiere for her. There is a brief reference to his producing a movie four years later entitled ""Devils in the Sky"". These movie titles bear an unmistakable similarity to two famous movies produced and directed by Hughes: ""The Outlaw"" and ""Hell's Angels"". In historical fact, it was the 1930 ""Hell's Angels"", rather than ""The Outlaw"", that came first. It starred Jean Harlow, but it was not her debut; she was an established actress with seventeen earlier screen credits. Jean Harlow was famous as (in the words of her official estate-sponsored website) ""Hollywood's Original Blonde Bombshell"", but her bust measurement"
"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. After Bern's death, Harlow began an indiscreet affair with boxer"
"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"
"the picture that there is too much tuna fish, and not enough Harlow."" The film's depiction of organized labor drew some controversy. Max S. Hayes of ""The Cleveland Citizen"" attacked the film as ""propaganda to prejudice the public against trade unionism"". According to MGM records, the film earned $717,000 in the US, and $330,000 elsewhere, resulting in a loss of $63,000. Riffraff (1936 film) Riffraff is a 1936 American film starring Jean Harlow and Spencer Tracy. The movie was written by Frances Marion, Anita Loos, and H. W. Hannaford, and directed by J. Walter Ruben. Spencer Tracy plays a rough"
"later to play the title role in the biopic ""Harlow"". Fictional Rina Marlowe's husband, cinema director Claude Dunbar, commits suicide shortly after their marriage, as did Jean Harlow's second husband, producer Paul Bern. Marlowe dies tragically of encephalitis in about 1934; Harlow died of kidney failure in 1937. In other respects, correspondences between the novel's characters and real individuals are imprecise. In the novel, Jonas Cord's first movie production is entitled ""The Renegade""; is released in 1930; and stars Rina Marlowe in her screen debut. Marlowe has a 38C bust, and Cord has one of his aeronautical engineers design a"
"Saratoga (film) Saratoga is a 1937 American romantic comedy film written by Anita Loos and directed by Jack Conway. The film stars Clark Gable and Jean Harlow in their sixth and final film collaboration, and features Lionel Barrymore, Frank Morgan, Walter Pidgeon, Hattie McDaniel, and Margaret Hamilton. Jean Harlow died before filming was finished, and it was completed using stand-ins. ""Saratoga"" was MGM's biggest moneymaker of 1937. Bookie Duke Bradley (Clark Gable) stops the bank from taking the stud of Grandpa Clayton (Lionel Barrymore). Carol Clayton (Jean Harlow) calls from England that she is going to marry the wealthy Hartley"
"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. 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. She was also paired multiple times with Spencer Tracy and William Powell. At this point, MGM began trying to distinguish Harlow's public persona from that of her screen characters, changing her childhood surname from common ""Carpenter"" to chic ""Carpentier"", claiming that writer Edgar Allan Poe was one"
"Ethel Moses Ethel Moses (April 29, 1904 – June 1982) was an American actress and dancer, billed as ""the black Jean Harlow"". She is best known for working in films by Oscar Micheaux. Ethel Moses was born in Staunton, Virginia and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of William Henry Moses and Julia Trent Moses. Her sisters Lucia and Julia also became performers; their brother Bill taught at Hampton Institute. Their father was a prominent Baptist preacher in New York who disapproved of (but did not prevent) his daughters' stage careers. Ethel attended the Nannie Helen Burroughs School in the"
"$820,000 elsewhere, resulting in a profit of $1,146,000. Saratoga (film) Saratoga is a 1937 American romantic comedy film written by Anita Loos and directed by Jack Conway. The film stars Clark Gable and Jean Harlow in their sixth and final film collaboration, and features Lionel Barrymore, Frank Morgan, Walter Pidgeon, Hattie McDaniel, and Margaret Hamilton. Jean Harlow died before filming was finished, and it was completed using stand-ins. ""Saratoga"" was MGM's biggest moneymaker of 1937. Bookie Duke Bradley (Clark Gable) stops the bank from taking the stud of Grandpa Clayton (Lionel Barrymore). Carol Clayton (Jean Harlow) calls from England that"
"about his uneducated neighbours in Weatherfield, Frank and the community are outraged. In 1961, Ken's mother dies in a motor accident. Ken turns down a teaching post to support his father, but he and Frank continue to clash until Frank leaves in 1964. David and Frank's deaths in 1968 and 1971 respectively, leave Ken as the sole surviving Barlow. Ken begins teaching, and marries Valerie Tatlock (Anne Reid) in July 1962. Two years later, he has a fling with exotic dancer Pip Mistral (Elaine Stevens), but his marriage survives. Twins Peter (Robert Heanue) and Susan (Katie Heanneau) are born on"
"Reckless (1935 film) Reckless (also known as Born Reckless and Hard to Handle) is a 1935 American musical film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Jean Harlow, William Powell and Franchot Tone. David O. Selznick wrote the story, using the pseudonym ""Oliver Jeffries"", basing it loosely on the scandal of the 1931 marriage between torch singer Libby Holman and tobacco heir Zachary Smith Reynolds and his death by a gunshot wound to the head. Musical stage star Mona Leslie (Jean Harlow), jailed for reckless driving, is bailed out by her friend, sports promoter and gambler Ned Riley (William Powell), to"
"Riffraff (1936 film) Riffraff is a 1936 American film starring Jean Harlow and Spencer Tracy. The movie was written by Frances Marion, Anita Loos, and H. W. Hannaford, and directed by J. Walter Ruben. Spencer Tracy plays a rough and tough fisherman (""Dutch"" Muller), who leads in a strike with his fellow fishery workers against the ""fat-cat"" owners of a tuna cannery. The love interest Hattie (Jean Harlow), is also a tuna cannery worker. Her character has a tough exterior with her ""bombshell"" good looks. Jimmie (Mickey Rooney) is a teenager who is the uncle of the two youngest children."
"at the premiere of the film ""Grand Hotel"" sporting red, ""titian hair"", suggesting she was involved in the production. The ""Modern Screen"" gossip column in ""The Hollywood Times"" confirmed these suspicions in May 1932 stating: ""Guess who is going to be M-G-M's 'Red-Headed Woman'? No other than that famous platinum blonde, Jean Harlow. They will either have to get a new title for the picture, or a very large bottle of very extra red henna for Jean's crowning glory."" The opening scene of the film shows Harlow's character getting her hair dyed red. The film's first line of dialogue is"
"Joan Freeman (actress) Joan Freeman (born January 8, 1942) is an American retired actress. Freeman started as a child actor, having appeared at the age of 7 in the 1949 television series ""Sandy Dreams"", along with Richard Beymer and Jill St. John. At fourteen, she played the character Jeannie Harlow in the 1956 episode ""The Frontier Theatre"" of the ABC western series, ""The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp"", with Hugh O'Brian in the title role. In 1961–62, Freeman was cast in six episodes as the young waitress Elma Gahrigner, in the ABC drama series ""Bus Stop"", in a role"
"large enough audience, she left RKO. She signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer shortly after leaving RKO. After signing with MGM, Sothern was cast as brassy Brooklyn burlesque dancer Mary Anastasia O'Connor, known professionally as Maisie Ravier, in ""Maisie"" (1939). MGM originally acquired the ""Maisie"" property for Jean Harlow, but Harlow died in June 1937, before a final script was completed. (The Harlow inspiration remained, as the second Maisie feature, ""Congo Maisie"", was based on MGM's ""Red Dust"". Sothern approximated the Jean Harlow role opposite John Carroll in the Clark Gable role.) After years of struggling and appearing in supporting parts, Ann Sothern"
"US and Canada and $419,000 elsewhere) on a budget of $260,000—a profit of $433,000. Harlow was well on her way to being the biggest star in Hollywood, and her next picture, ""Bombshell"" (1933), would not even need a male star to carry the film. Hold Your Man Hold Your Man is a 1933 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by an uncredited Sam Wood and starring Jean Harlow and Clark Gable, the third of their six films together. The screenplay by Anita Loos and Howard Emmett Rogers was based on a story by Loos. Small-time con man Eddie Hall (Clark"
"Harlow, and William Powell with Myrna Loy. After experimenting with a few such films, including ""Mata Hari"" in 1931, which were profitable, he decided on a multi-star production of another Broadway play, ""Grand Hotel"", later that same year. It had five major stars, including Garbo, Joan Crawford, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, and Wallace Beery. ""Before Thalberg,"" writes Vieira, ""there was no ""Grand Hotel"" in the American consciousness."" The film won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1932. Thalberg went against consensus and took another risk with ""The Great Ziegfeld"" (1936), costarring Luise Rainer. Although Louis B. Mayer did not want"
"Victoria Vinton Victoria Vinton, born Victoria Velnette Vinton (August 23, 1912 – June 12, 1980) was an early B-movie actress, starring in over thirty films from 1932 into 1940, mostly in westerns. Born in New Jersey, she was the daughter of Victor Vinton (1888-1983) and Lucille Vinton Strahl. She had a younger sister, Violet. Vinton was a good looking young woman in her youth, and was often called in her acting days ""a Jean Harlow look alike"". Her career started with her on contract with Warner Bros., beginning in 1932. With them she made a number of successful western films,"