A mystical danger to men: 100 Birthday of Jean Harlow on 3 March 2011
The American film actress Jean Harlow (actually Harlean Harlow Carpenter) outshone with silvery bleached hair, the movie blondes the dark years of depression after the crash, and played a vital and energetic type of woman with beauty and Sex-Appeal cleared the way up.
Born in Kansas City, Missouri, the daughter of the dentist Mont Clair Carpenter and his mother Jean Poe Carpenter (nee Harlow) it inherits maternal intelligence and willpower. Harleans nickname is "The Baby", he hangs her a lifetime. Only when she starts school, she understands that her name is not "baby", but Harlean. For the mother, Jean is the daughter of a grocery point that it distracts from her unhappy marriage.
1922 can be the mother divorced; 1923 she moved with her daughter to Hollywood. The young Harlean comes into contact with later Hollywood drama stars like Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Joel McCrea and producer Irene Mayer Selznick, daughter of studio mogul Louis B. Mayer. From a financial hardship and blackmailed with a possible disinherited by her grandfather Skip Harlow return mother and daughter returned to Kansas City.
The 16-year Harlean and the 20-year-old Charles "Chuck" McGrew burn each other through. At 21, Chuck receives a portion of his enormous legacy. In 1928 the couple moved to Los Angeles and settled in Beverly Hills. They do not initially work, and especially Chuck speaks to alcohol. After some exercises refusal follows Harlean but her mother and takes work - the beginning of her acting career. This is by her marriage to Chuck on the line until they can leave him 1929th
1930 she is a star and a presence in many films. With "Platinum Blonde" their image is already perfect, and its platinum-colored hair fashion. At 21, she gets a contract at MGM. Soon they become the Super Star, by her stage name Jean Harlow interior. MGM accented jeans Vita in the direction of a venerable and noble-looking home and creates a new persona for the public. Jean takes her change for the audience with humor. Her second husband, MGM producer Paul Bern comes mysteriously killed, and there are rumors that she had killed him. It can survive the threat of scandal and is a connection with the boxer Max Baer one. MGM fears a new scandal and arranged a marriage with Harold Rosson from the film industry. The mid-30s, Jean one of the biggest stars of the USA and is listed as a new Greta Garbo.
But the superstar is seriously ill. The disease symptoms are not taken seriously enough, and she died at 26 on a cerebral edema at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles at the height of her career. About the "real" cause of death remains a mystery for long. Her first unpublished novel, "Today is Tonight" appears posthumously 1965th
original quote Jean Harlow: "I'm not a great actress, and I never thought I was. But I happen . To have something the public likes "
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