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On June 7, 1937, Hollywood is shocked to learn of the sudden and tragic death of the actress Jean Harlow, who succumbs to uremic poisoning (now better known as acute renal failure, or acute kidney failure) at the age of 26.
The last recorded picture of Hollywood starlet Jean Harlow, taken on June 6th 1937 on the movie set of Saratoga - one day before her death from kidney failure and cerebral edema at the age of 26.
- Before Jean
- The Making of A Movie Star
- More Tragedy Than Comedy
- A Falling Star
Just as Marilyn Monroe used to be Norma Jean, Jean Harlow was born Harlean Carpenteron March 3, 1911, in Kansas City, Missouri. Harlean's mother's name was actually Jean Harlow, but after her daughter took on the screen name, she began going by "Mother Jean". (Similarly, Norma Jean would borrow her mother's maiden name of Monroe.) Meanwhile Harlean...
Harlean was discovered by Fox executives while she was visiting a movie lot with a friend. Apparently, she wasn't all that interested in becoming a star, even giving them a fake name: her mom's. But certainly, they were interested in her—or at least, in her look: a glamorous blonde with killer curves. At the insistence of Mother Jean, the newly dub...
Jean's personal life was less stable than her work life. In 1932 Jean married MGM executive Paul Bern. Only two months after their wedding, Paul was found dead from a gun shot wound to the head in their home; Jean had been staying with her mother at the time. Despite rumors that he was murdered at the hands of a former lover (it turned out Paul was...
However happy she may have been personally with William, Jean continued to drink heavily, which as Longworth notes, "may have obscured other health problems," including headaches mistaken for hangovers and a puffy face and swollen belly that Jean likely believed to be alcohol-related weight gain (her mother's solution was apparently to put her on a...
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Jean Harlow. Actress: China Seas. Harlean Carpenter, who later became Jean Harlow, was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on March 3, 1911. She was the daughter of a successful dentist and his wife. In 1927, at the age of 16, she ran away from home to marry a young businessman named Charles McGrew, who was 23. The couple pulled up stakes and moved to Los Angeles, not long after they...
- Actress, Soundtrack
- June 7, 1937
- March 3, 1911
Jean Harlow, was born Harlean Harlow Carpenter on March 3, 1911. She was a film actress and top sex symbol of the 1930s. Her big break came in 1930 when she landed a role in Howard Hughes' WWI epic, "Hell's Angels." In 1932 Hughes sold her contract to MGM for $60,000 and from there her career shot to unprecedented heights. By the mid-1930s Harlow was one of the biggest stars in America. In the ...
Apr 29, 2016 · Jean Harlow standing beside Eleanor Roosevelt, with other celebrities invited to Washington, DC, for the President’s Birthday Ball (January 30, 1937) Photo Credit In 1933 Harlow married Harold “Hal” Rosson, a cinematographer who worked on movies such as The Wizard of Oz, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo and The Asphalt Jungle.
