| Front Cover |
Actor |
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| Jean Harlow |
Lillian 'Lil'/'Red' Andrews Legendre
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| Chester Morris |
William 'Bill'/'Willie' Legendre Jr.
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| Lewis Stone |
William 'Will' Legendre Sr.
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| Leila Hyams |
Irene 'Rene' Legendre
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| Una Merkel |
Sally, Lillian's Roommate
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| Henry Stephenson |
Charles B. 'Charlie'/'C.B.' Gaerste
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| May Robson |
Aunt Jane
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| Charles Boyer |
Albert, Gaerste's Chauffeur
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| Harvey Clark |
Uncle Fred
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| Movie Details |
| Genre |
Drama |
| Director |
Jack Conway |
| Writer |
Katherine Brush; Anita Loos |
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| Language |
English |
| Audience Rating |
Approved |
| Running Time |
79 mins |
| Country |
USA |
| Color |
Black and White |
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| Plot |
| Lil is the classic girl "from the wrong side of the tracks" She's a secretary with a bootlegger boyfriend and a wisecracking roommate named Sal (Una Merkel, who was a delightful foil to Harlow in several films). But Lil has ambitions. She plans to snag Bill Legendre, son of the venerable company head. No matter that he's happily married to his childhood sweetheart, Irene. Lil throws herself at Legendre until he can resist no longer and she snares him. But things don't work out as planned. Instead of making a big splash in society, she bombs, so she casts her attention ever upwards to Gaersate, a coal king. But a wrench is thrown into her scheme when she goes mad for his French chauffeur (Charles Boyer). "I've fallen in love and I'm going to be married!" she gleefully tells Sal, before explaining that it's the chauffeur she loves and Gaersate whom she will marry. However, Legendre Sr. has put a detective on Lil's trail and he shows Gaersate a handful of compromising photos. It looks like her game is up, but the last we see of the mercenary miss, she's leaving a fashionable Paris racetrack with a bearded old sugar daddy and her beloved chauffeur driving them away. In spite of all her blatant manipulations, Harlow gives Lil a childlike appeal, which makes her actions nearly forgivable (it also helps that the men are such dolts). But not everyone was able to accept a movie bad-girl who did not pay for her sins and, in fact, actually benefited from them The film was banned in Germany and England. |
| Personal Details |
| My Rating |
6 |
| Seen It |
Yes |
| Index |
834 |
| In Collection |
Yes |
| Links |
IMDB
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| Product Details |
| Format |
SVCD |
| Region |
Region 1 |
| Release Date |
2003 |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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Notes
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| Had to have this one because I had a red headed girlfriend. Both were crazy. |
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