A great screwball comedy starring Jean Harlow, featuring possibly the greatest temper tantrum in movie history.
I don't think Fred Pete has seen the 1950 Mexican melodrama Aventurera. But he should.
And I will TiVo Harlow tonight as well.
I'm not evil again. Why does everyone think that?
Angel ,'Sleeper'
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DavidS - Apr 15, 2005 8:37:16 am PDT #1918 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Betsy HP - Apr 15, 2005 8:50:15 am PDT #1919 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
According to legend, Jean Harlow was once introduced to Margot Asquith. Harlow kept calling Asquith "MarGOT" rather than "MarGO". Finally Asquith turned to her and said "The T is silent, as in 'Harlow'".
DavidS - Apr 15, 2005 8:55:47 am PDT #1920 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
According to legend, Jean Harlow was once introduced to Margot Asquith. Harlow kept calling Asquith "MarGOT" rather than "MarGO". Finally Asquith turned to her and said "The T is silent, as in 'Harlow'".
Ouch. Despite her screen image, I don't think Jean was particularly slutty in real life.
JohnSweden - Apr 15, 2005 9:00:06 am PDT #1921 of 10002
I can't even.
Ouch. Despite her screen image, I don't think Jean was particularly slutty in real life.
Still, what a fantastic line. Them's spicy branes.
Betsy HP - Apr 15, 2005 9:02:13 am PDT #1922 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
I don't think Jean was particularly slutty in real life.
Au contraire. She slept around a lot; one of her marriages was hastily arranged by the studio to prevent her being named in William Powell's divorce.
JZ - Apr 15, 2005 9:11:23 am PDT #1923 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Ehn. The bios I checked did say she was much married - the first time at 16 and lasting a couple of years, the second lasting eight months, and the third leaving her widowed at two months when her husband committed suicide - but after the suicide really nothing until she hooked up with Powell, whom one website describes as "the love of her life." They never married, but she also didn't marry or even fool around with anyone else after she met him, and a couple of years later she was dead.
Scrappy - Apr 15, 2005 9:15:07 am PDT #1924 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
William Powell, yum.
Betsy HP - Apr 15, 2005 9:16:35 am PDT #1925 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
The bios I checked did say she was much married - the first time at 16 and lasting a couple of years, the second lasting eight months, and the third leaving her widowed at two months when her husband committed suicide - but after the suicide really nothing until she hooked up with Powell, whom one website describes as "the love of her life." They never married, but she also didn't marry or even fool around with anyone else after she met him, and a couple of years later she was dead.
Which, by '30s standards, is slutty.
erikaj - Apr 15, 2005 9:20:43 am PDT #1926 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
By our standards that wouldn't leave Carrie Bradshaw much to write about. Awful burn, expertly delivered. I'd be pissed, but have to respect it.
Maysa - Apr 15, 2005 9:20:51 am PDT #1927 of 10002
But it was Hollywood, so not really all that slutty if we're grading by cultural milieu standards.