Word: harlean
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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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...
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...
When Miss Harlow recently set out to make a personal appearance tour, Loew's Inc. published a 28-page brochure on the subject, rehearsing the familiar milestones in her career. She started life 21 years ago as Harlean Carpenter in Kansas City, Mo. She was married at 16, divorced last year. She got her first important part when Howard Hughes, remaking Hell's Angels as a talking picture, gave her Greta Nissen's role. In effect, Jean Harlow is a shiny refinement of Clara Bow. She is a competent though not a brilliant actress. Her contours are luxurious though slender...
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