Nude Filmography:
>> Red-Headed Woman (1932)
Mini Biography :
>> The dentist's daughter eloped at age 16 with a young businessman
and wound up in Los Angeles where she found work as an extra and bit
player (e.g., "Moran of the Marines" and "Liberty", 1928) and somewhat
more prominently in Laurel and Hardy shorts ("Double Whoopie", "Liberty",
"Bacon Grabbers", 1929). Her first big break came in 1930 when Howard
Hughes remade his 1927 "Hell's Angels" in a sound version, replacing
the heavy accented Swede Greta Nissen with the girl who, with her
divorce in 1929, had adopted her mother's maiden name, Jean Harlow.
Hughes loaned her out for a number of movies which, like Capra's "Platinum
Blonde" (1931), featured her platinum hair and obvious sexuality (she
claimed she never wore underwear).
>> In 1932 Hughes sold her to MGM, her "Red-Headed Woman" for
them led the Hays Office to prohibit unpunished adultery, and she
married Irving Thalberg's right hand man, Paul Bern. The marriage
ended after a few weeks: just after his former common law wife met
Harlow Bern shot himself, and a few days later the other woman took
her life. She had another brief marriage with cameraman Harold Rosson
followed by an affair with William Powell. She made three films with
Spencer Tracy and six with Clark Gable receiving much improved critical
acclaim for her acting, allure and comedic talent. During the filming
of "Saratoga" in 1937 she was hospitalized for uremic poisoning, dying
June 7 of cerebral edema, aged 26.
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