{"id":19656,"date":"2012-02-03T11:49:03","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T16:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=19656"},"modified":"2013-12-10T16:30:56","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T21:30:56","slug":"jean-harlow-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=19656","title":{"rendered":"Jean Harlow: Blondes, Brains, Boldness, Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jean Harlow is one of the greatest screen sirens in motion picture history. This post will be about the platinum blonde bombshell who made blonde hair what it is today: Harlean Harlow Carpenter, AKA Jean Harlow<\/a>.\u00a0 In short, she is one of the best blonde comediennes in film history and we are going to tell you why.\u00a0 Hold on to your hair, Monroe and Aguilera\u2026.<\/p>\n

Jean Harlow was a woman and comedienne who could only exist in the pre-Code era (although she was still successful in the early Code era).\u00a0 She was a dirty flirt, a temperamental mistress, and sometimes downright untrustworthy.\u00a0 She could be rotten to the core, but also sprinkled with sugar and dressed in shimmering dresses to distract the moral compass.\u00a0 What redeems her, though, is the fact she is also vulnerable underneath her spoiled facade.\u00a0 Although the Production Code banned filmmakers to let audiences sympathise with immoral characters, she made immoral playfulness fun to watch, and we always rooted for her to get her own way because she had a piece of her heart at stake.<\/p>\n

Being emotionally involved with her onscreen ordeals causes Harlow\u2019s character(s) to be hot-headed in order to get what she wants.\u00a0 This allows Harlow to stand up against the force known to literally sweep women off their feet: Clark Gable<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What makes Harlow stand out from the rest of Gable\u2019s leading ladies is her ability to stand on her own against him.\u00a0 The power was equal between them.\u00a0 She could seduce him just as easily as he could seduce her, and they were both mutually willing.\u00a0 When she swoons, she swoons on her terms.\u00a0 When he treats her rough, she\u2019s swinging her fist or cussing right back at him.\u00a0 They can throw and catch each other\u2019s punches without a flinch.\u00a0 They are both each other\u2019s matches.\u00a0 Powerhouses.\u00a0 Dynamos.\u00a0 It\u2019s entrancing to watch them in the six films they starred together: The Secret Six\u00a0(1931),\u00a0Red Dust\u00a0(1932),\u00a0Hold Your Man\u00a0(1933),\u00a0China Seas\u00a0(1935),\u00a0Wife vs. Secretary\u00a0<\/a>(1936), and\u00a0Saratoga<\/a>\u00a0(1937).<\/p>\n

One downfall of playing these types of roles was having the audience believe she was like her characters offscreen.\u00a0 Harlow was neither promiscuous nor ditzy. \u00a0Clark Gable considered her \u201cone of the boys.\u201d\u00a0 She was known among her peers to be full of self-respect and a great actress whose onscreen persona was sadly mistaken for her real self.\u00a0 Here is an excerpt from classichollywoodbios.com<\/a>:<\/div>\n
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In her book\u00a0Being and Becoming<\/strong>,\u00a0Myrna Loy remembered a weekend trip she, William Powell and Jean Harlow took together. A San Francisco hotel manager, confusing fantasy with reality, registered \u201cWilliam and Myrna Powell\u201d in one room when it was actually Harlow and Powell who were to stay together. In the 1930s, with the press looking over their shoulders, they couldn\u2019t be obvious with their affair. Powell had to move to a tiny downstairs room while Myrna and Jean shared the more luxurious upstairs room. \u201cBill complained bitterly, let me tell you., angling to get upstairs,\u201d remembered Loy. \u201cThe mix-up brought me one of my most cherished friendships. You would have thought Jean and I were in boarding school we had so much fun. We\u2019d stay up half the night talking and sipping gin, sometimes laughing, sometimes discussing more serious things. Jean was always cheerful, full of fun, but she also happened to be a sensitive woman with a great deal of self-respect. All that other stuff \u2013that was put on. She just happened to be a good actress who created a lively characterization that exuded sex appeal.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Not only was she a great actress, she was intelligent and loved to read.\u00a0 One would have to be smart to deliver lines the way she does!\u00a0 Before dropping out of high school to be married at age 16, Harlow was educated in private schools and came from a well to-do family.<\/p>\n

Jean Harlow left a memorable legacy after her early, unexpected death of a kidney infection in 1937 at the age of 26.\u00a0 Without Jean Harlow, blonde hair would not have the popularity is still enjoys today.\u00a0 She was the first star to dye her hair to platinum blonde.\u00a0 A young Norma Jean Baker idolised Jean Harlow and followed in her footsteps by dying her hair to platinum blonde.\u00a0 In contemporary times, Christina Aguilera\u2019s hair is inspired by Monroe, but does she know the origin and history behind her own hair color?<\/p>\n

Another impact on popular culture she left behind is the quote, \u201cWould you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable?\u201d from her breakout film, Hell\u2019s Angels <\/a>(1930).\u00a0 Most people have heard the idiom but don\u2019t know where it came from.\u00a0 Now it is a common trope in popular culture.\u00a0 Here is an index of some of the ways the phrase has been used in popular culture.<\/p>\n

Although Jean Harlow isn\u2019t talked about as much as other comediennes such as Lucille Ball or Carole Lombard, she has nonetheless left an indelible mark on popular culture.\u00a0 She has also left behind an image of a tough, promiscuous woman who can also stand on her own and fight back yet can win the sympathy of the audience.\u00a0 She can be cute, sexy, and drink all the boys under the table\u2026<\/p>\n

Katie is a Film Studies student in Canada and the co-host of a classic film podcast called The Scarlett Olive<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 The biggest star she and her co-host have\u00a0interviewed so far is Ed Asner.\u00a0For more information be sure to check out her website<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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