3rd March marks 100 years since the birth of Jean Harlow. She packed in more than 40 movie appearances in the decade before her early death at the age of 26, from uncredited extras work (including the party scene of Chaplin’s City Lights) to full-blown starring roles in Hell’s Angels, The Public Enemy, Platinum Blonde, Red Dust, Dinner at Eight, and finally Saratoga, which was completed after her death using a body double for unfinished scenes. Seemingly spending most of her time, if publicity portraits are anything to go by, dressed for bed, Harlow could alternate overt, almost cartoon sexuality with goofy innocence, strategically mask a keen intelligence behind oblivious allure, or effect a more deliberate kind of seduction. Watch how she effortlessly elicits a full catalogue of ways to be emotionally helpless from Ben Lyon in this scene from Hell’s Angels:
- Make your own Jean Harlow Paper doll.
- Superb, HQ galleries of portraits and posters at Dr Macro.
- Follow the Jean Harlow Blogathon at the Kitty Packard Pictorial.
- An excellent, frequently updated fansite.
- Lots of information and fandom at Lisa Burks’s The Platinum Blog.
- Another gallery of images at Silent Ladies.
- Copy Harlow’s make-up at Steal Their Style.
- Alternatively, copy the make-up used by Gwen Stefani for playing Harlow in Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator.
- Lisa Bode on the ‘Digital Resurrection of Dead Stars’, including Harlow’s posthumous appearance in Saratoga.
- An interview with Harlow biographer Eve Golden.
- Susan King on Harlow at The Los Angeles Times.
- Biography at Classic Hollywood Bios.
- Profile and gallery at Movie Maidens.
- Gallery at Silver Screen Sirens.
- ‘The Death of Jean Harlow’ at Golden Age Dames.
- Lurid but extensive bio at The Daily Mail.
- Find jewellery modelled on Harlow’s movie appearances at Bombshells.com.
- How to make a Jean Harlow cocktail.
- Harlow’s grave.
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