Word: jeans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christ"; Bed Reader. When Howard Hughes sold Jean Harlow to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it helped to ripen her friendship with Paul Bern, one of MGM's ablest associate producers. Handsome, slender, melancholy, brilliant and distinguished by his profound sympathy for other people's troubles, Paul Bern was called by his friends "a motion picture Christ." The phrase had no wide currency until Labor Day, 1932-the day, two months after his marriage to Jean Harlow, that Paul Bern was found naked in his bathroom, face down and dead, with a bullet in his brain. His friends might have...
...Stage. In private life, Jean Harlow still lives with her mother and the mysterious Marino Bello, now the owner of some mines to which he is usually just going or from which he has just returned. Besides playing golf, Jean Harlow likes swimming which she does every day in her own pool and a parlor game called "Murder Mystery" in which whoever is "it" mentally constructs a crime which the other players try to solve by asking questions in turn. Because a smudge of dust is as visible on her hair as a thumbprint on white paper, she visits...
Since the collapse of her marriage with Hal Rosson, Jean Harlow has been involved in neither romance nor scandal. Currently, her most frequent escort is Actor William Powell, who ferried her about the lot in his car when she was making China Seas. She enjoys giving away money which she does on an incredibly large scale. She has a habit of speaking of herself in the third person which seems to confirm her mother's impression that the cinema star, Jean Harlow, is their joint creation. Mrs. Bello still stage-manages the Harlow menage...
...there is any fly in the scented ointment of Jean Harlow's current celebrity, it is her occasional dissatisfaction with the character which her appearance and her mother, by a sort of conspiracy of nature and circumstance, have built up for her. Her determination to achieve a form of self-expression distinct from the one she has achieved on the screen shows itself in different ways. For her game of "Murder Mystery," she prefers writers as opponents, as she believes they think up the best crimes. She herself wants to write and spent last year completing a novel called...
Last week at a party, when she made what she considered a bright remark, the person to whom she was speaking asked: "Who did you hear say that?" Jean Harlow paused bitterly before making another remark which was both brighter and indubitably her own: "My God, must I always wear a low-cut dress to be important...