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unusual facts about Jean Harlow


Edward Shortt

He banned 120 films in five years and in 1932 ordered cuts to 382, a record number; one of the films banned was Red-Headed Woman, starring Jean Harlow.


Corey Ford

Ford's series of "Impossible Interviews" for Vanity Fair magazine featured ill-assorted celebrities, among them Stalin vs. John D. Rockefeller, Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes vs. Al Capone, Sigmund Freud vs. Jean Harlow, Sally Rand vs. Martha Graham, Gertrude Stein vs. Gracie Allen, Adolf Hitler vs. Huey Long.

John Pascal

Mr. Pascal was a novelist, as well, authoring such books as The Strange Case of Patty Hearst, The Jean Harlow Story, and Marilyn Monroe: The Complete Story of Her Life, Her Loves and Her Death.

Katharine Brush

Brush, however, is probably best known today for her subsequent novel Red-Headed Woman, which was made into a film in 1932 starring Jean Harlow which remains a pre-code classic for its racy humor.

Libeled Lady

Libeled Lady is a 1936 screwball comedy film starring Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy, and Spencer Tracy, written by George Oppenheimer, Howard Emmett Rogers, Wallace Sullivan, and Maurine Dallas Watkins, and directed by Jack Conway.

Paula Winslowe

When actress Jean Harlow died on the set of the film Saratoga in 1937, it was decided that the film, 90% of which was completed, would be finished using a body double (Mary Dees) for Harlow, however Dees's voice was higher than that of Harlow.

Red Dust

The story revolves around a love triangle, set on a rubber plantation most likely located in Cochinchina (southern French Indochina) during the monsoon season, between the plantation's owner/manager Dennis Carson (Gable), a prostitute named Vantine (Harlow), and Barbara Willis (Astor), the wife of an engineer named Gary Willis (Raymond).

Wife vs. Secretary

Wife vs. Secretary is a 1936 comedy film directed and co-produced by Clarence Brown, and starring Clark Gable as a successful businessman, Jean Harlow as his secretary, and Myrna Loy as his wife, supported by James Stewart, in one of his first memorable roles, as the secretary's suitor.


see also

Hollywood Athletic Club

During its early years as a health club, its membership included Johnny Weissmuller, Errol Flynn, Charlie Chaplin, John Wayne, Walt Disney,John Ford, Douglas Fairbanks Sr, Mary Pickford, Cecil B de Mille, Cornel Wilde, Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Frances X. Bushman, Howard Hughes, Joan Crawford and Rudolph Valentino, Mae West, Walt Disney, Buster Crabbe and Pola Negri.