Jean Harlow News

November 10, 2009, 7:02 AM / 1.Who was the shortest U. S. president? 2. What famous and lasting automobile was introduced in 1908, made by Ford? 3.Who is married to Jean Harlow in the movie "Dinner at Eight"? This picture won the Academy Award for 1931-32. 4. Alaska became the 49th state in 1959.

Jean Harlow plays patsy in this sharp-toothed comedy of a movie queen who squirms vainly under the thumb of her publicity agent.

Clark Gable and director Victor Fleming - who would reunite a few years later for a little drama called "Gone With the Wind" - collaborated on this soapy 1932 drama about an American rubber plantation owner in Indochina who finds himself swept up in a triangle with a floozy from Saigon and the beautiful wife of a visiting engineer.

In 1995, wild man indie animator Bill Plympton took his first stab at a live action feature film, a mockumentary in the vein of This is Spinal Tap called Guns on the Clackamas .

Three Wise Girls is a 1932 pre-code film starring Jean Harlow in one of her first starring roles.

The showbiz world was left spellbound when an 18-year-old Jean Harlow first appeared on the silver screen.

The Brattle continues its Classic Gangsters series with a pair of pre-Code gems.