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Goldie (1931)
Bombshell (1933)

Goldie (1931)
August 26, 2011 - 7:30 pm
Billy Wilder Theater

Goldie (1931)

Directed by Benjamin Stoloff

Sailor Spike is always looking for girls and when he finds them, Sailor Bill (an early starring role for Spencer Tracy) has been there first and left his mark: a tattoo. A talkie remake of Howard Hawks’ A Girl in Every Port (1928), the title also foreshadows Harlow’s role as a girl with a tattoo, reprising Louise Brooks’ character in the former film. But Jean Harlow looks great in a bathing suit as a high diver, cracking open Fox’s otherwise pedestrian buddy picture. According to The New York Times, Harlow dives 200 feet without wetting her hair or disturbing her make-up. 

Fox Film Corp. Screenwriter: Paul Perez, Gene Towne. Cinematographer: Ernest Palmer. Editor: Alex Troffey. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Warren Hymer, Jean Harlow.

35mm, b/w, 68 min.

Bombshell (1933)

Directed by Victor Fleming

Lola Burns is a big movie star who functions as a cash cow for both her family and her film studio, the latter’s publicity department turning out a steady stream of outrageous fabrications to keep her in the limelight. But Lola only wants to be loved for herself in this screwball comedy that lampoons Clara Bow and Jean Harlow’s own emerging star persona. Given the nastiness of all the other leading men, Harlow not only carries the picture, she turns it into a one-woman show. Ironically, Fleming refused credit on both this film and Red Dust, two of his best works. 

MGM. Screenwriter: John Lee Mahin, Jules Furthman. Cinematographer: Harold Rosson. Editor: Margaret Booth. Cast: Jean Harlow, Lee Tracy, Frank Morgan.

35mm, b/w, 96 min.

Part of: 
Harlow Before the Code