What’s Your Favorite Jean Harlow Performance?

01.18.12 | Edward Frebowitz | Movie PollsPrint this Post

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  • BRIAN

    How about,The Public Enemy?(Jean to Cagney)Oh,Tommy.I could love you to death)

  • Michel

    My favorite Hold Your man 1933..Thanks alots Movies unlimited

  • Frank DeCavalcante

    MY FAVORITE JEAN HARLOW PERFORMANCE WAS BY CARROLL BAKER IN THE HIGH CAMP MOVIE"HARLOW." I LIKE BAKER BUT SHE WAS WAY OUT OF HER ELEMENT IN THAT TRASHY FILM. SHE WAS A GOOD ACTRESS BUT WAS A DISASTER WHEN THEY TRIED TO MAKE HER A SULTRY SEX GODDESS IN THE CARPETBAGGERS AND HARLOW.

  • Susan

    Although I haven't seen all the Harlow films here mentioned (yet), Kitty in Dinner at Eight was a kind of composite of the performances one expects to see from Ms. Jean. She was so wonderful that this film should be required watching by college grad candidates....all of them. Funny, brassy, smart, sexy, this woman was the forerunner of what women could accomplish on film for all future performers. How much impact can a 26 year old woman have on future images? Who new?

    • Keith Alan Burrows

      And Jean was only 22 years old working with stage professionals with years of experience when she was in Dinner At Eight. Quite an accomplishment for a young, less experienced actress! She certainly showed us she had talent!

  • Susan

    Regarding college grads and required film watching, I believe that we all should have a firm understanding of how the arts can express and affect the way that we view ourselves. Maybe we could understand ourselves a bit better if we saw ways we've been influenced.

  • paul

    Voted for Red Dust-Red Headed Stranger-a close second. "CAN YOU SEE THROUGH THIS- YES- i'LL TAKE IT"

  • paul

    MEANT TO WRITE RED HEADED WOMAN.

  • Joseph Imhoff

    Tough choices! I chose Dinner, but so many of the others were just as good, Saratoga, Hell's Angels, Bombshell, etc.. She was much more fun on the screen than the insipid 1960's biographies painted her.

  • Tommy T

    I think the true measure of an actor or actress is how well members of an audience can "buy in" to a character they are portraying. Jean Harlow could make you love or hate a character or anything in between. I don't think I have hated a character more than Lillian or loved a character more than Whitey

  • Carl

    Whitey with Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, and James Stewart in "Wife vs. Secretary" was not just the most likeable part she ever played but, she is drop dead gorgeous in every scene. She steals the movie from the rest of the cast with facial expressions and voice inflections.

  • Daniel E. Coates

    Except for Jean Harlow and Wallace Beery I didn't care for Dinner At Eight so I voted for Red Dust.
    Public Enemy was a close second.

  • William DeLeshe

    I've seen all of her movies...And I agree with Carl that Jean Harlow was all of that and more,that she showed a human side of her...That's why I picked "Libeled Lady"...It starred along with Jean Harlow,..Clark Gable,Spencer Tracy,and Myrna Loy....And she was great and held her own against the others..

  • Susan W.

    I enjoy any movie with our gal from Kansas City!

  • Jim

    I liked Red Dust and China Seas equally well. Nice to see her remembered in this forum!

  • jim

    A gteat all around actress.

  • VKMfanHuey

    ...Red-Headed Woman... my favorite performance...at maximum sassiness...

    When she visits the old neighborhood, her retort to one of the guys calling her 'Lil': "Mrs. Legendre to you, you halfwit!" The way it's delivered is classic to me...

    'Bombshell' is also great, as she kinda is 'in on the joke' as a disgruntled superstar...

    Kansas City, 1911 was the epicenter of the universe, y'all...Harlow AND Ginger were born there that year (well, Ginger was born in Independence, just outside of KC...she moved 'into' KC just a few months later). Cool town - suggest stopping by if ya get the chance!

    VKMfanHuey
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  • VKMfanHuey

    P.S. - Red-Headed Woman needs to be released on DVD, for any of you studio-types out there... :-)

  • Jack Jones

    It was William Powell, not Clark Gable, in "Libled Lady".

  • Tom S

    Good God how can you pick when the star in question is Harlow? My Favorite has to be Bombshell. However also love Pesonal Property, Libled Lady,Dinner at Eight, Red Dust, Suzy, Red Dust, Wife vs Secretary and Reckless.

  • Chester

    Everytime I watch Hells Angels I think to myself, "good Lord that woman was hot." Not the kind of girl you'd want to take home to mom, but certainly one to liven up a party. It really surprises me the censors didn't take that apart back in the thirties. It's even risque today. Howard Hughes, having refilmed it to make a talky out of it was worth it, and the air to air shots are still some of the very best ever put on celluloid. I read that the film airplanes at the time constituted the 10th largest air force in the world and he would spend hours and hours of fuel just flying around until he could get a cloud background behind the planes ensure the illusion of motion in each shot. What a film.

  • john

    I loved her in all of her rolls. However, I enjoyed her more restrained performances than her more flamboyant ones. I understand these rolls were closer to her real life pesonality. She was much more down to earth.

  • sandra brock

    i would have to say i liked them all. she was a verry good actress, it's so sad that she was used, by hollywood.then be used by her own mother.i heard her mother treated her badly.she seemed like she could be your friend. you know just your every day people, all she ever wanted to be was a good mother, and wife, with william powell.

  • Susan

    Just spotted my spelling error (Who new vs Who knew?). That's what happens when you are thinking about Harlow at 1:30 am.....and you have run out of wine.

  • sugarpussoshea

    "Baby"(as everyone in the biz called her) was a charmer with a wise crack for every occasion. Her "monologues" in Bombshell and Libeled lady showed me what a winner she was. Loved her in every performance......wished there had been more.

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