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Jean Harlow
Harlean Harlow Carpenter [1911-1937]

actress Jean Harlow [1911-37] four-shot          short profile

movies of Jean Harlow

movies about Jean Harlow

other works about Jean Harlow

Jean Harlow's novel

friends & lovers

links

         actress Jean Harlow [1911-37] in glamour pose


Harlean Harlow Carpenter made 33 films in nine years, became the 'Blonde Bombshell' movie star Jean Harlow, and died suddenly of kidney failure at age 26.

"I was not a born actress. No one knows it better than I. If I had any latent talent, I have had to work hard,
listen carefully, do things over and over and then over again in order to bring it out."
— Jean Harlow

"In the first sitting I fell in love with Jean Harlow. She had the most beautiful and seductive body
[that] I ever photographed." — studio portrait photographer Charles Sinclair Bull


     B I O
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footprints in the forecourt at Grauman's Chinese Theatre (September 1933)
and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

CMG's official Jean Harlow™ website
Jean Harlow entry at Wikipedia
Jean Harlow's movie credits [1928-37] at Internet Movie Database


Movies of Jean Harlow
Jean Harlow's movie credits [1928-37] at Internet Movie Database
browse Jean Harlow on DVD at Amazon

The Films of Jean Harlow book edited by Michael Conway & Mark Ricci  "The Films of Jean Harlow" [1965]
Edited by Michael Conway & Mark Ricci

Citadel Press pb [1965] out of print/used
Citadel Press pb [1965] out of print/used
Citadel Press hardcover [1965] out of print/scarce

T.C.M. Legends Collection Jean Harlow DVD box set  "T.C.M. Greatest Classic Films: Legends Collection - Jean Harlow" DVD Box Set [2011]
Turner Home Ent. b&w DVD set [2/2011] 2 disks for $18.99
contains 4 feature films: "Dinner At Eight" [1933] directed by George Cukor; "China Seas" [1935]
co-starring Clark Gable; "Wife vs. Secretary" [1936] co-starring Clark Gable & James Stewart; and
"Libeled Lady" [1936] co-starring Spencer Tracy & William Powell; extras include theatrical trailers,
"Harlow: The Blonde Bombshell" [T.N.T. 1993] docufilm, and six featurettes


Jean Harlow 100th Anniversary DVD Collection from Warner Archive  
"Jean Harlow: 100th Anniversary Collection" DVD Box Set [2011]
Warner Archive DVD set [11/2011] 7 disks for $42.49
contains 7 feature films: "Bombshell" [1933] starring Lee Tracy, Jean Harlow, Frank Morgan, Franchot Tone & Pat O'Brien; "The Girl From Missouri" [1934] starring Jean Harlow, Franchot Tone, Patsy Kelly, Lionel Barrymore & Lewis Stone; "Reckless" [1935] starring Jean Harlow, William Powell & Franchot Tone; "Riff-raff" [1934] starring Jean Harlow & Spencer Tracy; "Suzy" [1936] starring Jean Harlow, Franchot Tone, Cary Grant & Lewis Stone; "Personal Property" [1937] starring Jean Harlow & Robert Taylor; "Saratoga" [1937] starring Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore, Frank Morgan & Walter Pidgeon

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Movies  As  An  Unknown

"Honor Bound" silent feature [Fox April 1928] as an extra

"Moran of The Marines" silent feature [Paramount Oct 1928]

"Chasing Husbands" short [Hal Roach Dec 1928] starring Charley Chase

"Liberty" short [Hal Roach Jan 1929] with Laurel & Hardy

"Fugitives" silent feature [Fox Jan 1929]

"Why Be Good?" silent/sound feature [Warner Bros./First National]
silent version released Feb 1929, sound version released March 1929
color lobby card for 1929 "Wny Be Good?" feature starring Colleen Moore  One of the last silent films, from just before the industry converted fully to sound; the complete Vitaphone discs were found in 2012, and the film is being restored. The jazzy soundtrack is said to feature Jimmy Dorsey, Phil Napoleon, Eddie Lang, and others. A good girl with a wild reputation meets a handsome young man who is the son of the owner of the department store where she works; she is fired but he is smitten and invites her to a party at his parents' home that night . . . Directed by William A. Seiter; script by Carey Wilson; starring Colleen Moore, Neil Hamilton, Bodil Rosing, John St. Polis, Edward Martindel, Eddie Clayton, Lincoln Stedman, Louis Natheaux, Collette Merton & Dixie Gay, with Jean Harlow in a 'bit part'
restored DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • partial credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia

"Why Is a Plumber?" short [Hal Roach March 1929] with Edgar Kennedy

"Close Harmony" musical feature [Paramount April 1929]

"The Unkissed Man" short [Hal Roach April 1929]

"Double Whoopee" short [Hal Roach May 1929] with Laurel & Hardy

"Thundering Toupees" short [Hal Roach May 1929] with Edgar Kennedy

"The Bacon Grabbers" short [Hal Roach Oct 1929] with Laurel & Hardy & Edgar Kennedy

"The Saturday Night Kid" [Paramount Oct 1929]
The Saturday Night Kid 1929 movie starring Clara Bow   Jean Harlow has one line, and is wearing a cloche hat, so you have to watch carefully for her; two sisters working at a department store compete for a handsome fellow employee. Directed by A. Edward Sutherland; based on the 1926 Broadway play "Love 'Em and Leave 'Em" by George Abbott and John V.A. Weaver; starring Clara Bow, Jean Arthur, James Hall & Edna May Oliver
full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia
11"x17" tan poster from Amazon for $2.55
27"x40" tan poster from Amazon for $9.99
available on the "Rare Films Of Clara Bow, Volume 3" DVD with 2 other films
Classic Video Streams b&w DVD [3/2010] for $16.99

"The Love Parade" musical feature [Paramount Nov 1929] directed by Ernst Lubitsch

"This Thing Called Love" [Pathι Exchange Dec 1929] considered a lost film

"Weak But Willing" short [Paramount/Christie Dec 1929] with Billy Bevan

"New York Nights" feature [United Artists Dec 1929]

restaurant scene in "City Lights" [United Artists Jan 1931] by Charlie Chaplin

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Movies  As  A  Star

"Hell's Angels" [United Artists Nov 1930]
Produced & directed by Howard Hughes; starring Ben Lyon, James Hall,
Jean Harlow & John Darrow; Oscar nominated for Best Cinematography
full credits from IMDb

includes an 8-minute 2-strip Technicolor sequence, the only color motion picture film of Jean Harlow

"The Secret Six" [M.G.M. April 1931]
script by Frances Marion; starring Wallace Beery, Johnny Mack Brown, Jean Harlow & Clark Gable

"The Public Enemy" [Warner Bros. April 1931]
starring James Cagney, Jean Harlow & Edward Woods; full credits at IMDb

"Iron Man" [Universal Pictures April 1931]
directed by Tod Browning; story by W.R. Burnett

"Goldie" [Fox June 1931] starring Spencer Tracy & Jean Harlow {title role}

"Platinum Blonde"  [Columbia Oct 1931]
Platinum Blonde half-sheet poster  A newspaper reporter secretly marries a beautiful high society girl, but her wealthy snob relatives shun his colleagues & friends. Directed by Frank Capra; co-written by Robert Riskin; starring Robert Williams, Jean Harlow {title role}, Loretta Young, Halliwell Hobbes, Reginald Owen, Edmund Breese, Don Dillaway, Walter Catlett, Claud Allister & Louise Closser Hale
Sony b&w DVD [11/2003] for $12.49
Sony b&w VHS [9/97] out of prodb/used
full credits from IMDb

"Three Wise Girls" [Columbia Pictures Feb 1932]
starring Jean Harlow, Mae Clark & Marie Prevost

"The Beast of The City" [M.G.M. Feb 1932]
story by W.R. Burnett; starring Walter Huston, Jean Harlow & Wallace Ford

"Red-Headed Woman" [M.G.M. June 1932]
starring Jean Harlow {title role}, Chester Morris & Lewis Stone

"Red Dust" [M.G.M. Oct 1932]
Directed by Victor Fleming; starring Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Gene Raymond & Mary Astor

"Hold Your Man" [M.G.M. July 1933]
starring Jean Harlow, Clark Gable & Stuart Erwin

"Dinner At Eight" [M.G.M. Aug 1933]
Directed by George Cukor; based on the hit Broadway play by George S. Kaufman & Edna Ferber; screenplay by
Frances Marion & Herman J. Mankiewicz; starring John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Wallace Beery,
Billie Burke, Marie Dressler, Madge Evans, Jean Harlow, Jean Hersholt, Edmund Lowe & Lee Tracy
DVD contains "Harlow: The Blonde Bombshell" TV documentary [T.N.T. 1993]
VHS available | full credits from IMDb

"Bombshell" [M.G.M. Oct 1933]
Directed by Victor Fleming; starring Lee Tracy, Jean Harlow, Frank Morgan, Franchot Tone & Pat O'Brien
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombshell_(film)

"The Girl From Missouri" [M.G.M. Aug 1934]
starring Jean Harlow {title role}, Franchot Tone, Patsy Kelly, Lionel Barrymore & Lewis Stone

"Reckless" [M.G.M. April 1935]
Directed by Victor Fleming; starring Jean Harlow, William Powell & Franchot Tone

"China Seas" [M.G.M. Aug 1935]
starring Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery & Rosalind Russell

"Riffraff" [M.G.M. Jan 1936]
screenplay by Frances Marion & others; starring Jean Harlow & Spencer Tracy
VHS available | full credits from IMDb

"Wife vs. Secretary" [M.G.M. Feb 1936]
starring Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy, May Robson & James Stewart

"Suzy" [M.G.M. June 1936]
co-written by Dorothy Parker, from the Herbert Gorman novel; starring Jean Harlow {title role},
Franchot Tone, Cary Grant & Lewis Stone; full credits at IMDb

"Libeled Lady" [M.G.M. Oct 1936]
starring Spencer Tracy, Jean Harlow, William Powell & Myrna Loy {title role}

"Personal Property" [M.G.M. March 1937]
Directed by W.S. Van Dyke; based on the 1930 London & Broadway hit play "The Man In Possession"
by H.M. Harwood; starring Jean Harlow & Robert Taylor; full credits at IMDb

Jean Harlow died suddenly on 7 June 1937 just before the release of her final film

"Saratoga" [M.G.M. July 1937]
starring Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore, Frank Morgan, Walter Pidgeon & Una Merkel


Movies  About  Jean  Harlow

Big Parade of Comedy  "M.G.M.'s Big Parade of Comedy" [M.G.M. Sept 1964]
Co-produced, written & directed by Robert Youngson; narrated by Les Tremayne; featuring clips of Bud Abbott & Lou Costello, Lucille Ball, Lionel Barrymore, Robert Benchley, Marion Davies, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks, W.C. Fields, Clark Gable, Greta Garbo, Cary Grant, Jean Harlow, Ted Healy & The Three Stooges, Katharine Hepburn, Buster Keaton, Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy, Carole Lombard, The Marx Brothers, "The Thin Man" [1934] & Spencer Tracy • full credits from IMDb
DVD/Blu-ray not available; Warner Video b&w VHS [1/93] for $19.99
The Love Goddesses 1965 docufilm  "The Love Goddesses: A History of Sex In The Cinema" [Paramount March 1965]
Co-produced, co-written & directed by Saul J. Turell; co-produced & co-written by Graeme Ferguson; narrated by Carl King; featuring Theda Bara, Brigitte Bardot, Ingrid Bergman, Clara Bow, Louise Brooks, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Ava Gardner, Jean Harlow, Rita Hayworth, Audrey Hepburn, Deborah Kerr, Hedy Lamarr, Dorothy Lamour, Gina Lollobrigida, Carole Lombard, Sophia Loren, Myrna Loy, Jeanette MacDonald, Jayne Mansfield, Marilyn Monroe, Nita Naldi, Pola Negri, Simone Signoret, Barbara Stanwyck, Gloria Swanson, Elizabeth Taylor, Shirley Temple, Gene Tierney, Lana Turner & Mae West
Image Ent. widescreen color/b&w DVD [7/99] out of prodn/used
Embassy/Nelson color/b&w VHS [undated] for $24.50
full credits at IMDb

"Harlow" biopic starring Carol Lynley  Bill Sargent's "Harlow" [Theatrofilm May 1965]
Quickie black-and-white film, made in just eight days by video producer Bill Sargent; shot in Electronvision, a video process which looks dark & grainy when projected on a movie screen.
Directed by Alex Segal; written by Karl Tunberg; starring Carol Lynley, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Ginger Rogers, Barry Sullivan, Hurd Hatfield, Lloyd Bochner, Hermione Baddeley, Audrey Totter, John Williams, Michael Dante, Jack Kruschen {as Louis B. Mayer} and Jim Plunkett & John J. Fox {as Laurel & Hardy}
VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available • full credits at IMDb
"Harlow" biopic starring Carroll Baker  "Harlow" [Paramount/Embassy June 1965]
"A screen adaption of the blistering best-seller"; filmed in Technicolor & Panavision; melo-dramatic version of Harlow's life, critical and box-office failure. Produced by Joseph E. Levine; directed by Gordon Douglas; adapted by John Michael Hayes from the Irving Shulman best-seller; starring Carroll Baker, Red Buttons, Raf Vallone, Peter Lawford & Angela Lansbury
Olive Films widescreen color DVD [9/2010] for $19.99
Paramount color VHS [6/93] out of prodn/used
full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia
Further Perils of Laurel & Hardy compilation directed by Robert Youngson  "The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy" [Fox March 1968]
99-minute compilation co-produced, written & directed by Robert Youngson; includes clips from many Laurel & Hardy solo & team shorts, plus clips of Charley Chase, Jean Harlow, 'Snub' Pollard & Billy West
full credits from IMDb
Telavista b&w DVD [6/2007] for $12.99
Amazing Howard Hughes video  "The Amazing Howard Hughes" TV mini-series [EMI/CBS April 1977]
A portrayal of billionaire Howard Hughes as sometimes kind, sometimes ruthless, and never quite trusting of anyone. Directed by William A. Graham; based on the book by Noah Dietrich & Bob Thomas; starring Tommy Lee Jones as Howard, Ed Flanders as Noah, James Hampton, Tovah Feldshuh {as Kate Hepburn}, Marla Carlis {as Jane Russell}, Walter O. Miles, Garry Walberg, Susan Buckner (as Jean Harlow}, Carol Bagdasarian {as Jean Peters} & James Bacon
Anchor Bay 2-hour color DVD [12/2002] out of prodn/used
Republic 2-hour color VHS [7/94] out of prodn/used
full credits from IMDb

poster for Hughes & Harlow, Angels in Hell 1978 movie  "Hughes and Harlow: Angels In Hell" [indep Jan 1978]
Set during the 1930 filming of "Hell's Angels" by Howard Hughes and his romance with teenage star Jean Harlow. Co-produced, co-written & directed by Larry Buchanan; starring Victor Holchak as Howard, Lindsay Bloom as Jean, David McLean, Royal Dano & Adam Roarke (as Howard Hawks}
DVD/Blu-ray not available • Monterey Home Video VHS [undated] out of prodn/used
white poster {as at left} from Amazon 11"x17" for $6.29 • 27"x40" for $18.99
two-shot poster from Amazon 11"x17" for $6.29 • 27"x40" for $22.99
full credits at IMDb

"Hollywood Greats: Jean Harlow" [BBC-TV Aug 1978]
series hosted by Barry Norman; featured interviewees include George Cukor, Jesse Lasky Jr.,
Ben Lyon, John Lee Mahin, Hal Roach & Adela Rogers St. Johns • credits at IMDb

"Harlow: The Blonde Bombshell" TV documentary [T.N.T. 1993]
47-minute docufilm co-produced & written by Paul Boorstin; directed by Jom McQuade; hosted by
Sharon Stone • available on "Dinner At Eight" DVD or the T.C.M. box set {above} • full credits at IMDb

"Jean Harlow: Platinum Bombshell" [Biography 1996]
A&E/Biography 1996 episode "Jean Harlow: Platinum Bombshell"  Directed by Peter Jones; hosted by Peter Graves; featured interviewees include Maureen O'Sullivan, Elaine St. Johns, Marcella Bannett Rabwin, Barbara Brown Martin (Jean's secretary/stand-in), Joseph M. Newman, soundman William A. Edmundson, hairdressers Alfred & Eugene Pagano, and biographer David Stenn
A&E Home Video color/b&w VHS [2/2000] out of prodn/scarce
credits at IMDb

"Intimate Portrait: Jean Harlow" [Lifetime 1999]
Intimate Portrait Jean Harlow 1999 TV program  independent TV episode produced by Leslie Greif; written & directed by
Suju Vijayan; featuring biographer David Stenn, the hairdressers who claim
that they invented 'platinum blonde', and a Jean Harlow radio interview
Unapix color/b&w VHS [1/2000] out of prodn/used
full credits at IMDb

"The Aviator"  [Miramax Dec 2004]
The Aviator movie  Produced & directed by Martin Scorsese; written by John Logan {'inspired by' the book "Howard Hughes: The Untold Story" by Peter Harry Brown & Pat H. Broeske, as well as "Howard Hughes: The Secret Life" by Charles Higham}; starring Leonardo DiCaprio as the young Howard Hughes; cast includes Kate Beckinsale as Ava Gardner, Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn, Gwen Stefani as Jean Harlow, and John C. Reilly as Noah Dietrich; with Ian Holm, Alan Alda, Alec Baldwin & Willem Dafoe; nominated for Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Script, Best Actor [LD], Best Supporting Actor [Alda], Best Sound; won Oscars for Best Supporting Actress [CB], Best Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Costumes; also won ACE/Eddy, 4 BAFTAs, SAG's Best Supporting Actress [CB], and others; nominated for DGA & WGA awards
Warner widescreen color Blu-ray [11/2007] for $9.99
Warner widescreen color DVD [5/2005] 2 disks for $6.99
Warner full-screen color DVD [5/2005] 2 disks for $11.99
Warner color VHS [5/2005] out of prodn/used
Sony soundtrack CD [12/2004] for $14.99
full credits from IMDb • watch official trailer [2/2013 upload; 3:03] online at YouTube
studio's official website • FK's unofficial fansite movie page
screenplay by John Logan: Miramax 9x6 pb [12/2004] for $10.95

Why Be Good? Sexuality and Censorship in Early Cinema docufilm  "Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship In Early Cinema"
[Playboy/American Cinemateque May 2007]

70-minute documentary about the uncensored days before the Hays Code was established in 1935; featuring archive & interview footage of Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Clara Bow, Louise Brooks, Cecil B. DeMille, Marlene Dietrich, Douglas Fairbanks, D.W. Griffith, Jean Harlow, Will H. Hays, Wm. Randolph Hearst, Pola Negri, Mary Pickford, Barbra Stanwyck, Gloria Swanson, Rudolph Valentino, and Mae West • Co-written & directed by Elaina Archer; co-written by cinema historian Scott Eyman; narrated by Diane Lane; modern interviewees include Cari Beauchamp, Budd Schulberg, Kevin Thomas & Marc Wanamaker
Image Ent. color/b&w DVD [11/2008] out of prodn/used
full credits at IMDb

Other  Works  About  Jean  Harlow
search biography/memoir books about Jean Harlow

"Jean Harlow: Hollywood Comet" [Constable 1937] by David Sentner

"The True Story of Jean Harlow" [P.D.C. 1964] Edited by Lawrence Teeman

Jean Harlow's Life Story magazine by Louella O. Parsons  "Jean Harlow's Life Story" [1937 & 1964] by Louella Parsons
"her men – her sensational movies – her last love affair – and more than 100 uncensored photos"
Dell magazine format [1964] out of print/rare
Dell magazine format [1937] out of print/rare
Jean Harlow Story biography by John Pascal  "The Jean Harlow Story: The Sizzling, Intiimate Story of Hollywood's All-Time Number One Blonde Bombshell (fully illustrated)" [1964]
by John Pascal

Popular Library mass pb [1964] out of print/used
Popular Library mass pb [1964] out of print/used
Jean Harlow Intimate Biography book by Irving Schulman  "Harlow: An Intimate Biography" [1964]
by Irving Shulman

iUniverse 9x6 pb [10/2000] for $19.95
Dell mass pb [1964] out of print/used
Bernard Geis 8½x5¾ hardcover [1964] out of print/used
"The Beard" 1965 stageplay by Michael McClure  "The Beard" off-off-Broadway play [1965]
Written by beat poet Micheal McClure
main characters outlaw Billy The Kid & actress Jean Harlow

Grove Press playscript mass pb [4/67] out of print/used
1966 movie of the play: directed by Andy Warhol
video/DVD not available; bare credits at IMDb
"The Sermons of Jean Harlow & The Curses of Billy The Kid" [1968]
by Michael McClure

City Lights Books limited edition {1250} chapbook [1968] out of print/rare

Gable, Lombard, Powell & Harlow book by Joe Morella & Edward Z. Epstein  "Gable & Lombard & Powell & Harlow" [1975]
by Joe Morella & Edward Z. Epstein

"The initmately revealing story of four romantically intertwined lives in a gawdy, golden Hollywood era when real-life passions outdid anything on the screen"
Dell mass pb [1975] out of print/used
Dell mass pb [1975] out of print/used
W.H. Allen / Virgin Books hardcover [3/76] out of print/used
see also Magic Lantern's Clark Gable [1901-60] Page
Deadly Illusions  "Deadly Illusions: Jean Harlow & The Murder of Paul Bern" [1990]
by Samuel Marx & Joyce Vanderveen

"a dark picture of the corrupt power exerted by studio bosses during Hollywood's
so-called Golden Era"

Dell mass pb [9/91] out of print/used
Random House hardcover [9/90] out of print/many used
Platinum Girl Jean Harlow book by Eve Golden   "Platinum Girl: The Life and Legends of Jean Harlow" [1991]
by Eve Golden

Abbeville Press 10x7 pb [2/93] out of print/used
Abbeville Press 10¼x7¼ hardcover [12/91] out of print/used
Bombshell Jean Harlow biography by David Stenn  "Bombshell: The Life and Death of Jean Harlow" [1993]
by David Stenn

Lightning Bug Press 2nd edition 9x6 pb [8/2000] out of print/used
Doubleday 9½xc6 hardcover [9/93] out of print/many used
Doubleday hardcover [9/93] out of print/used
Hollywood Blondes book by Michelle Vogel & Liz Nocera  "Hollywood Blondes: Golden Girls of The Silver Screen" [2007]
by Michelle Vogel & Liz Nocera

Wasteland Press 9x5¾ pb [3/2007] for $22.45
chapter/subjects include Alice Faye, Betty Grable, Jean Harlow, Judy Holliday, Grace Kelly, Veronica Lake, Carole Landis, Carole Lombard, Jayne Mansfield, Marie McDonald, Marilyn Monroe, Barbara Payton, Lana Turner, Thelma Todd & Mae West
Jean Harlow, Tarnished Angel biography by David Bret  "Jean Harlow: Tarnished Angel" [2009]
by David Bret

J.R. Books 9¼x6 hardcover [5/2009] for $28.81
Sex Goddess in American Film book by Jessica Hope Jordan  "The Sex Goddess In American Film, 1930-1965: Jean Harlow, Mae West, Lana Turner, and Jayne Mansfield" [2009]
by Jessica Hope Jordan

Cambria Press 9x6¼ hardcover [12/2009] for $109.99 {sic}
Harlow in Hollywood book by Darrell Rooney & Mark A. Vieira  "Harlow In Hollywood: The Blonde Bombshell In The Glamour Capital, 1928-1937"
[2011] by Darrell Rooney & Mark A. Vieira

Angel City Press hardcover [3/2011] for $31.50

Jean  Harlow's  Novel
"Today Is Tonight" was written sometime around 1934 by Jean Harlow; she claimed that the story came to her almost complete in a dream, and that she felt compelled to write it. Publication was probably blocked by the M.G.M. studio, to preserve her screen image as a dumb, sexy blonde. {As far as the persistent rumors that this or that writer 'ghosted' or polished the novel, the actual writing is that of an amateur, i.e. Harlow, as no professional writer would submit such a manuscript: the accomplishment is that of a 23-year-old actress.} After the death of Harlow's mother, the manuscript passed into the possession of Jean's friend, Ruth Hamp, who arranged for publication in 1965 as a counterpoint to the two exploitive "Harlow" films released that year. It was finally published in July 1965 in condensed form in Mademoiselle Magazine, in hardcover by Grove Press, and in paperback by Dell.

Jean Harlow's novel "Today Is Tonight"   "Today Is Tonight" [1965]
Sold as "Jean Harlow's explosive, long-suppressed novel"; a Long Island
stock broker celebrates the third anniversary of his happy marriage, is blinded
in a fall from a horse, and loses everything in the Crash of '29.

Dell mass pb [7/65] out of print/used
Grove Press hardcover [7/65] out of print/used
book entry at Wikipedia

Friends & Lovers

first husband Charles Fremont McGrew [1907-?] married 1927, divorced 1929

boyfriend Howard Hughes [1905-76], circa 1930

boyfriend New Jersey mobster Abner Zwillman [1904-59] circa 1931


second husband writer-producer Paul Bern [1889-1932]
married July 1932, suicide? September 1932
IMDb listing • Wikipedia

Paul Bern, Life & Famous Death book by E.J. Fleming  
"Paul Bern: The Life and Famous Death of The M.G.M.
Director and Husband of Harlow" [2009]
by E.J. Fleming

McFarland & Co. 9x6 pb [1/2009] for $45.00


boyfriend boxer Max Baer [1909-59] circa 1933

third husband cinematographer Harold Rosson [1895-1988] married 1933, divorced 1934

fiancι actor William Powell [1892-1984], 1935-37

L i n k s
CMG's official Jean Harlow™ website
Jean Harlow entry at Wikipedia
Jean Harlow's movie credits [1928-37] at Internet Movie Database
browse Jean Harlow on DVD at Amazon

DMK's 'Jean Harlow, Original Blonde Bombshell' fansite
http://www.meredy.com/harlow/
http://www.classicmoviefavorites.com/harlow
http://www.bombshells.org/gallery/harlow/index.php
http://www.silent-movies.com/Ladies/PHarlow.html
http://www.lisaburks.com/jeanharlow/features/harleansheart.htm
http://www.myspace.com/jean_the_queen

cover of Photoplay Magazine, December 1931
Jean Harlow on cover
of Photoplay Magazine
[Dec 1931]
Jean Harlow on cover of Modern Screen Magazine
Jean Harlow on cover
of Modern Screen
Magazine

[Aug 1935]

11"x17" poster
for $9.49 from Amazon

27"x40" poster
for $16.36 from Amazon
cover of Time Magazine, 19 August 1935
Jean Harlow on cover
of TIME Magazine
[Aug 1935]

click for larger view
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cover of LIFE Magazine, 3 May 1937
Jean Harlow on cover
of LIFE Magazine
[May 1937]

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