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...Paul" was Paul Bern, 42-year-old associate producer at Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer, which in recent years has produced more big successes than any other company. Hollywood knew and admired Bern as the No. 1 assistant of Production Chief Irving Thalberg. "Dearest Dear" was Paul Bern's wife, Jean Harlow, 21-year-old film actress (Hell's Angels, Red Headed Woman), whose marriage to Bern last July was the most surprising, most gala, most romanticized wedding of Hollywood's summer. When the note was found last week near Bern's unclothed body, in the bedroom where...
What Hollywood knew about Paul Bern made his suicide last week even more amazing than his marriage to Jean Harlow who, daughter of a Kansas City dentist, was christened Harlean Carpenter; married at 16 to a young Chicago broker named Charles Freemont McGrew II, divorced three years later after he had accused her of posing nude for photographers; and ballyhooed into a $1,250-a-week star when Producer Howard Hughes decided that her silvery blonde hair and peculiarly voluptuous physique might be even more profitable elements in his $4,000,000 Hell's Angels than burning airplanes...
Hollywood knew Paul Bern as an adroit and skilful cinema craftsman. Associate producers generally are not credited for their work, but he was considered largely responsible for MGM's Grand Hotel. Paul Bern came to the U. S. from Germany when he was nine. Educated in Manhattan public schools, he studied further at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, became a theatrical director, went to Hollywood to write scenarios. His work on The Marriage Circle, The Christian, The Dove caused him to be made an executive. In a community founded upon the assumption that to be blatant...
Routine police investigation was fruitful of few essential facts. At the home of her mother and stepfather (a Chicago hotelman named Marino Bello whom sleek Mrs. Carpenter had married after a divorce from her first husband), Jean Harlow told detectives that she and Bern had dinner at home the night he shot himself. Afterward she had gone to spend the night at her mother's house because her stepfather was going fishing and her mother wanted company. Bern was expected to follow, but instead he telephoned to say that his headache was worse and he pre ferred to stay...
Died. Paul Bern, 42, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer executive, husband of Harlean Carpenter McGrew Bern (Jean Harlow), film actress; by his own hand (shooting); in Hollywood...