Comments on: Jean Harlow Mystery Photo http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/jean-harlow-mystery-photo/ thinking film Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:41:03 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Alissa http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/jean-harlow-mystery-photo/#comment-483346 Alissa Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:30:53 +0000 http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/jean-harlow-mystery-photo/#comment-483346 Richard Atkins- This was VERY informative. I'm going as Jean for halloween with a shorter hemline dress and I didnt know about ankle bracelets, perhaps i'll pick one up. I was also debating about wearing stockings with a seam in the back, but she doesnt appear to be wearing any. P.S. "MT": She was never chubby in the least, she was always very thin. She had a full face. Richard Atkins-
This was VERY informative. I’m going as Jean for halloween with a shorter hemline dress and I didnt know about ankle bracelets, perhaps i’ll pick one up. I was also debating about wearing stockings with a seam in the back, but she doesnt appear to be wearing any.

P.S. “MT”: She was never chubby in the least, she was always very thin. She had a full face.

]]> By: pop http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/jean-harlow-mystery-photo/#comment-474275 pop Sun, 08 Mar 2009 10:15:13 +0000 http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/jean-harlow-mystery-photo/#comment-474275 Jean Harlow is unrecognizable here. Clearly this is from her pre-MGM period, when she was glamorized to the point when she looked more like a doll than a real person. I can't understand why Hollywood studios would do that to people, especially women. Jean Harlow is unrecognizable here. Clearly this is from her pre-MGM period, when she was glamorized to the point when she looked more like a doll than a real person. I can’t understand why Hollywood studios would do that to people, especially women.

]]> By: Richard Adkins http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/jean-harlow-mystery-photo/#comment-468294 Richard Adkins Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:40:06 +0000 http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/jean-harlow-mystery-photo/#comment-468294 I don't believe this to be a scene from a Harlow film. The set appears to be that of "The Last of Mrs. Cheney" with Norma Shearer and Basil Rathbone. This would make it 1929 which would be correct for her appearance, including the slightly short dress for the year. Hemlines were still all over the place, whereas the three films mentioned were slightly earlier and hemlines shorter. Harlow would have begun to see Paul Bern at this time and it was he who escorted her to the premiere of "Hells Angels" that same year. So her visiting an M.G.M. set is also not out of character for the time. She is also wearing the ankle bracelet she obtained about this time. Bern was championing Harlow for an M.G.M. contract, but wasn't successful until late '31 after she had appeared in M.G.M.'s "Secret Six" and "Beast of the City" to the first good reviews of her career. I don’t believe this to be a scene from a Harlow film. The set appears to be that of “The Last of Mrs. Cheney” with Norma Shearer and Basil Rathbone. This would make it 1929 which would be correct for her appearance, including the slightly short dress for the year. Hemlines were still all over the place, whereas the three films mentioned were slightly earlier and hemlines shorter. Harlow would have begun to see Paul Bern at this time and it was he who escorted her to the premiere of “Hells Angels” that same year. So her visiting an M.G.M. set is also not out of character for the time. She is also wearing the ankle bracelet she obtained about this time. Bern was championing Harlow for an M.G.M. contract, but wasn’t successful until late ‘31 after she had appeared in M.G.M.’s “Secret Six” and “Beast of the City” to the first good reviews of her career.

]]> By: M. T. http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/jean-harlow-mystery-photo/#comment-323277 M. T. Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:15:49 +0000 http://www.altfg.com/blog/actors/jean-harlow-mystery-photo/#comment-323277 She looks a little chubby there. Still pretty, but different from the later Harlow. She looks a little chubby there. Still pretty, but different from the later Harlow.

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