I know what I’m getting!!!  It’s funny.  Just this week when I was buying a bunch of DVDs on Warner Archive I thought, “Why isn’t Bombshell on DVD?”  Now it is gonna be, and I love that it was announced today, and we only have to wait until 10/25 not MONTHS in advance.  Until the only films of Jean’s that were on DVD were Hell’s Angels, Red-Headed Woman, Platinum Blonde, Wife Vs. Secretary, The Public Enemy, China Seas, Dinner at Eight, and Libeled Lady. 

Celebrate the wonderful life of this super talented mega-star who died in tragedy at the height of her career, beauty at just the age of 26, but don’t read her life backwards love her, and the seven years / 22 films she made fully credited, staring roles.

These are the films; some of Harlow’s very best work and descriptions provided by DVDs Worth Watching:

• Bombshell (1933) — An early look behind-the-scenes of Hollywood, with Harlow playing a character much like herself. She wants to quit movies, but her deadbeat family and go-getter press agent won’t let her.
• The Girl From Missouri (1934) — Similar in plot to Red-Headed Woman (see below) but made after the Code, so much emphasis is placed on how Harlow looks like a tramp but she’s still a “good girl”.
• Reckless (1935) — Inspired by a real-life scandal involving a torch singer, this movie also had unpleasant similarities to the suicide of Harlow’s second husband. She stars with William Powell, whom she was also involved with.
• Riffraff (1935) — I don’t care for this one, too downbeat. Co-stars Spencer Tracy.
• Suzy (1936) — Co-starring Cary Grant and Franchot Tone in a love triangle of people torn apart by World War I and mistaken reports of a spouse’s death.
• Personal Property (1937) — Timely, as the story of a widow at risk of having everything repossessed, and I appreciate co-star Robert Taylor, but not really the right role for Harlow.
• Saratoga (1937) — Harlow’s final movie, with frequent co-star Clark Gable. She died during filming and several of her scenes were played by a double.

I guess, they are probably waiting to make another set with Red Dust, and the early films that a lotta people don’t like that get a bad rap like Hold Your Man, Iron Man, The Beast of the City, and Goldie (all of these were important in continuation of “the build up” of her career after Hell’s Angels, and they were key in defining her image).

Good Night Jean!  I wish you would have lived to be 100, but now a whole new generation prepares to love you, too.