Bombshell (VHS, 1990) 
Bombshell (VHS, 1990)

 
Bombshell (VHS, 1990)

Leading Role: Jean Harlow
Director: Victor Fleming
Rating: Not Rated
Release Date: Dec 1990
Format: VHS
Product ID: EPID3153565
Description: Called the fastest, funniest movie of Hollywood's golden era, BOMBSHELL offers up the hottest sex symbol of the 1930s, Jean Harlow, in a role that mirrored her real-life persona. Playing Lola Burns, a Hollywood starlet, Harlow decides sh...
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Movie Description
Called the fastest, funniest movie of Hollywood's golden era, BOMBSHELL offers up the hottest sex symbol of the 1930s, Jean Harlow, in a role that mirrored her real-life persona. Playing Lola Burns, a Hollywood starlet, Harlow decides she's tired of the Hollywood game and calls it quits. But her plans for marriage and adoption are ripped apart by her scheming publicist (Lee Tracy) and her alcoholic con-man father (Frank Morgan). Can a Hollywood sex queen find happiness off the screen? Find out in this sharp-tongued satire.

Credits
Cast:Franchot Tone, Frank Morgan, Jean Harlow

Notes
Released theatrically on October 13, 1933

The connections between BOMBSHELL's fictional Lola Burns and the real life of Jean Harlow were numerous. The bathing scenes in BOMBSHELL were outtakes from Harlow's 1932 film RED DUST. Harlow had indeed run afoul of the Hays Office in both RED HEADED WOMAN and RED DUST. The role of Lola’s publicist, Space Hanlon, was understood to be a loose characterization of Harlow’s mean-spirited agent, Arthur Landau, while the character of Lola’s alcoholic father bore more than a passing resemblance to Harlow’s own stepfather. The big difference between the fiction and the reality is that Harlow’s own life was more tragic than comic. Her second husband, MGM producer Paul Bern, committed suicide, while Harlow herself died at 26, just four years after BOMBSHELLl’s release.

Lee Tracy asked to be released from the picture because he didn't feel his role was extensive enough. Norman Krasna made last-minute script changes to give Tracy more screen time.

The film is based on a play by Caroline Francke and Mack Crane.

Editorial Reviews
"...One of the funniest and most accurate satires ever made about the Hollywood studio system....A key '30s comedy..."
USA Today - Mike Clark (12/07/1990)

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