Harlow

Year:

1965

Duration:

125 min

Genres:

Biography | Drama | Romance

IMDB rate:

5.5

Director:

Gordon Douglas

Awards:

Nominated for Golden Globe.

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1965-06-23

Filming Locations: Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Cast

Actor

Character

Bing Davidson

Harry Lauter

Raf Vallone

Harlow

Carroll Baker

Jean Harlow

Red Buttons

Arthur Landau

Angela Lansbury

Mama Jean Bello

Peter Lawford

Paul Bern

Mike Connors

Jack Harrison

Martin Balsam

Everett Redman

Leslie Nielsen

Richard Manley

Mary Murphy

Sally Doane

Hanna Landy

Beatrice Landau

Peter Hansen

Hansen - Assistant Director

Kipp Hamilton

Marie Tanner

Peter Leeds

Parker

Bobby Vinton

Theme Song Singer (voice)

Phil Arnold

Comic Baker (uncredited)

Ginny Baker

Bit Role (uncredited)

Jack Baker

Dance Director (uncredited)

Bill Baldwin

Reporter (uncredited)

Elaine Beckett

Bridesmaid (uncredited)

William 'Billy' Benedict

Bespectacled Hero in Movie (uncredited)

Roxane Berard

Secretary (uncredited)

Larry J. Blake

Editor (uncredited)

Billy Bletcher

Policeman (uncredited)

Richard Boyer

Bit Role (uncredited)

Joe Brooks

Assistant Director (uncredited)

Rand Brooks

Casting Director (uncredited)

Robert Carricart

Director (uncredited)

Booth Colman

Minister (uncredited)

Roger Creed

Keystone Kop (uncredited)

Dennis Cross

Second Director - Scene 8 (uncredited)

Billy Curtis

Newsboy (uncredited)

Sayre Dearing

Photographer (uncredited)

Robert Dornan

Photographer (uncredited)

Jerry Douglas

Bit Role (uncredited)

Fritz Feld

Fritz--Window Washer in Movie (uncredited)

Robert Foulk

Marvin Silver - Producer (uncredited)

Gee Gee Galligan

Bus Passenger (uncredited)

Marina Ghane

Showgirl (uncredited)

James Gonzalez

Assistant (uncredited)

Joe Gray

Director (uncredited)

Don Haggerty

Police Captain (uncredited)

Myron Healey

Rex Chambers (uncredited)

Beverly Hills

Bit Role (uncredited)

Harry Holcombe

Doctor (uncredited)

Susan Holloway

Bus Passenger (uncredited)

Shep Houghton

Announcer (uncredited)

Robert F. Hoy

Tim - Unit Manager (uncredited)

Arline Hunter

Girl at Theater (uncredited)

Jim Jacobs

Casting Director (uncredited)

Robert Kino

Manley's Houseboy (uncredited)

Louise Lawson

Pretty Girl (uncredited)

Diki Lerner

Window Designer (uncredited)

Jo Anne Loren

Pretty Girl (uncredited)

Mike Mahoney

Joe - Casting Director (uncredited)

Larry D. Mann

Editor (uncredited)

Bill McLean

Still Photographer (uncredited)

William H. O'Brien

Party Guest (uncredited)

Julie Parrish

Serena Harrison (uncredited)

William Phipps

Reporter (uncredited)

Allan Ray

Man at Central Casting (uncredited)

Jack Reitzen

Reporter (uncredited)

Benny Rubin

Director (uncredited)

Françoise Ruggieri

Bridesmaid (uncredited)

Jeffrey Sayre

Executive on Film Set (uncredited)

Sandra Scott

Pretty Girl (uncredited)

Dianne Simpson

Actress (uncredited)

Bert Stevens

Man on Film Set (uncredited)

Rikki Stevens

Showgirl (uncredited)

Claude Stroud

Bus Passenger (uncredited)

Lyle Sudrow

Dave Northcroft (uncredited)

Hal Taggart

Premiere Attendee (uncredited)

Romo Vincent

Pinky (uncredited)

Guy Way

Assistant (uncredited)

Guy Wilkerson

Comic Hunter (uncredited)

Edy Williams

Mail Room Girl (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

This film neglects to mention any of Jean Harlow's actual films or even the fact that she was under contract to MGM. None of her real-life co-stars is named or depicted in the film, and her first and third marriages are not mentioned. She is said to have died from pneumonia, but it was actually uremic poisoning which killed her at age 26. The only characters given their real names are Harlow herself, her husband Paul Bern, her agent Arthur Landau and her mother and stepfather. The film's claim that Bern committed suicide because he was impotent has been widely questioned - some, such as the director Henry Hathaway (who was a close friend of Bern's), have suggested that he was murdered by gangsters, and that the studio covered this up to avoid bad publicity.

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This film appeared the year after Carroll Baker had played "Rina Marlowe", a Harlow-type Hollywood sex siren, in "The Carpetbaggers", which was also produced by Joseph E. Levine. Critics laughingly suggested that, in a few years' time, Levine might well produce a biopic called "Baker"; in fact, it was only another year before he produced "The Oscar", in which Jean Hale, made up to look like Carroll Baker, played a Hollywood actress called "Cheryl Barker".

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Burt Bacharach and Hal David wrote two songs for the picture, "Harlow" and "Say Goodbye," but they weren't used.

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Goofs

Jean complains about having to report to the studio at 5 a.m. each morning but the shadows as she leaves home are clearly midday.

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While on personal appearance tour, Harlow performs 1960s-style twist dance steps in scene supposedly set in the 1930s.

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In a scene set in late 1920s, Jean pays her agent with 1960s-era currency which looks quite different.

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Quotes

Everett Redman: The time has come for us to start making sex films for the family.

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Jean Harlow: [Crying after a bad day at the studio] Oh, Mom, all they want is my body!

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Everett Redman: [to Jean] Try to stay the same unspoiled movie star you always were.

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