Programmed August 2021

Platinum Blonde: Starring Jean Harlow

Hollywood’s original blonde bombshell, Jean Harlow rose to become one of the most popular stars of the thirties thanks to her irresistible combination of smoldering sensuality and tart, wisecracking brassiness. Embodying both the escapist glamor and streetwise grit of Depression-era American cinema, Harlow had a particularly potent chemistry with MGM’s top leading man, Clark Gable, with whom she was paired in smash hits like Red Dust , Hold Your Man , and Wife vs. Secretary . Also featuring George Cukor’s star-studded drawing-room tragicomedy Dinner at Eight and the delightful newsroom screwball Libeled Lady (costarring Harlow’s real-life flame William Powell), this tribute to one of the screen’s first truly modern movie stars showcases the marvelous comic timing and saucy allure that have made her—more than eighty years after her tragic death at age twenty six—an enduring legend.

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