Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Dramatic Club will exchange actors for the plays produced during the year. The complete cast of "The Enchanted April" is as follows: Mrs. Fisher, Agnes Love '34; Mrs. Wilkins, Elizabeth G. Morrison '34; Mrs. Arbuthnot, Edwina Morgulis, '32; Francesca, Marie Driscoll '32; Lady Caroline Dexter, Bettye Jean Crocker '32; Clerk, Florence Usher '33; Thomas Briggs, P. G. Hoffman '32; Ferdinand Arundel, V. S. Hodges '34; Dominico, S. D. King '34; Mr. Wilkins, J. F. Joyce...
Marian Marsh's real name is Violet Krauth. She spent the first seven years of her life in Trinidad, British West Indies, the next seven in Massachusetts, and the last four in Hollywood. Her sister Jean, who had been trying to get parts for herself, helped Marian along till Barrymore noticed her. Cinemactress Marsh has greenish eyes, a faintly English accent, a toothy but ingratiating smile. Her next picture, Under Eighteen, will be an anachronism: she had her 18th birthday last week...
Robert Williams was excellent as Stew Smith, the cynical and garterless reporter. He has a plentiful supply of amusing lines, and he handles these excellently. Loretta Young is capable as the girl pal sob sister, but the producers were rather unfortunate to cast her with Jean Harlow, for the contrast between the two shows all too clearly that Miss Harlow is a very poor actress and rather plain in comparison with Miss Young's almost classic beauty...
...title of the picture is very misleading; the mere fact that Jean Harlow is a platinum blonde and plays the part of a society girl seems little cause for this misnomer. There is scarcely any connection between the title and the story of the reporter who leaves his faithful girl pal on the paper to marry the snobbish society heiress. The confines of the plutocracy make him unhappy, and he returns to the comparative freedom of his independence, via a pending divorce, and finds his true love in the girl he left behind...
This picture, save for the miscasting of Jean Harlow, offers fair entertainment, since it contains many amusing lines and situations; but it is one of that kind makes the audience think that it would be on so much fun to go home and be whimsical and bohemian. So they are just as likely to go home, mess up the living room, drink some rotten gin, and make unbearable attempts at sprightly conversation. The next morning they regret their impulsive assininity. Such a picture is "Platinum Bloude"; it is more or less entertaining while it happens, but at the end there...