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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harlow, clattering into theaters hard on the heels of Producer Bill Sargent's fast-buck Electronovision film of the same title, is the best movie to be made this year about Hollywood's legendary platinum blonde-which means simply that it is bad in a big, bold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bunking a Legend | 7/23/1965 | See Source »

Ostensibly based on Irving Shulman's "intimate biography," this gaudy, highly publicized valentine from Producer Joseph E. Levine stars Carroll Baker, suitably bleached and lacquered, as the Blonde Bombshell. Actually, Actress Baker seems more the bomb blonde-shell, as she shallowly traces the famous footsteps that led Harlow from Kansas City to Hollywood scandal, tragedy, and death from uremic poisoning in 1937 at age 26. Under Gordon Douglas' direction, the film takes frequent side trips into those gossamer realms of fiction where high seriousness begins to sound suspiciously like high camp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bunking a Legend | 7/23/1965 | See Source »

...question of about the same importance now confronts the world of letters: Who wrote the novel that contains this gooey hooey? Jean Harlow wrote it, with the help of an M-G-M journeyman. Completed before Harlow's death, the manuscript has been hidden away for the past 32 years. Published last week in the midst of a harrowing Harlow revival, Today Is Tonight (Grove Press; $5) reads like the first crude script of a Harlow movie-happy but sappy, and crammed with such insights as: "Funny that a man should want you tanned all over." An earnest preface...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 16, 1965 | 7/16/1965 | See Source »

Surprisingly, the acting in this otherwise total mess is decent. Carol Baker chose to play Harlow as a bewildered little girl, though with a woman's anger, and she is the only truly pleasing part of the movie. Raf Vallone and Anglea Lansbury make convincing parents, and Michael Connors is a charming man-who-Harlow-didn't-marry. Only Red Buttons, as Arthur Landua, really stinks...

Author: By Gregory P. Pressman, | Title: Harlow | 7/15/1965 | See Source »

...Harlow isn't bad, it's disappointing, which is worse. So much could have been done with the life is the 1930's sex goddess, and so little was, that all the good acting and photography is wasted. At least in Hercules and its uproarious sequels Mr. Levine didn't try for anything more than unbelievable adventure, and he succeeded. The films were funny because they were so bad. But his attempt at believable biography, at a good film, is not bad enough to be funny, just stupid enough to be pathetic...

Author: By Gregory P. Pressman, | Title: Harlow | 7/15/1965 | See Source »

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