Today’s film is adapts the successful stage play directed by George Cukor. It’s a Who’s Who of actors telling a story about the society…and yet I was left bored. I’m all for high-society ensemble films but Dinner at Eight is like a long-winded play filled with characters I had little interest in. Harlow plays a…
Last November, I covered the first 1965 biopic about Jean Harlow (also titled Harlow) starring Carol Lynley. If you’d like to read that review, you can do so here. Being made for television and filmed in black and white, that film wasn’t the best known of the Harlow biopics. This Harlow saw a theatrical release,…
I figured I’d do something a little different in today’s entry and do a list…my first of hopefully many. I started with a list of my ten favorite movies of the 1930s. Again, these aren’t “the best” or “must-sees” they’re my favorites. And favorite is a loose word as I only picked movies I really…
I thought instead of a summation of Harlow’s life and works I’d include a DVD review of the two box sets I was working with while doing this retrospective (might also grease the wheels with some DVD companies too!). The only films I had to find via outside resources were the earlier films of Harlow’s…
The Films of Jean Harlow comes to a close and it’s all rather bittersweet as Harlow didn’t complete this final film. Saratoga just wasn’t for me, namely because I don’t find anything compelling about horse racing, but her relationship with Gable’s character is great and if anything Harlow goes out with a great performance. Sadly,…
Another less than good movie and we’re coming down to the final days of Jean Harlow and her films. Personal Property was released three months before her death and while the story is lifeless, it’s evident Harlow herself is in ill health which ultimately colors the movie as a whole. A riff on My Man…
Well it seems Wife vs. Secretary was a fluke because another weak movie today. It’s not that Suzy’s bad, it just doesn’t know if it wants to be a war film with spies and intrigue, or a Jean Harlow romance. Sure the movie follows Harlow’s character, the aforementioned Suzy, but the majority of the plot…
