A thought I thunk on Twitter while watching Looper that I’m recycling here specifically for @zgkap.bsky.social who retains the right to get mad at me for this comparison

Marie Prevost and Andy Devine in a production still from Columbia’s Three Wise Girls (1932)

Jean Harlow in the intro to Suzy (1936), which opened on this day ninety years ago at Loew’s State and Grauman’s Chinese Theatres

Jean Harlow and James Cagney #BOTD’s introduction in William A. Wellman’s The Public Enemy (1931). Harlow’s Gwen is the perfect match for Cagney’s Tom and is what Henry Cohen called “a moderately crafty provincial charmer, a kind of Mae West played straight.”

Happy William Wellman Wednesday (here with a “machine gun expert” preparing for a near-miss at James Cagney’s head on the set of The Public Enemy, 1931)

My dream is to have all the bells and whistles that come with a proper “.com” domain, but my web hosting funds pool has run pretty dry from AdrienneDore.com. If you like my Harlow stuff, consider adding to the tip jar for my birthday, if you want: ko-fi.com/vitaphonezone

Over the past year or so I’ve been silently adding bricks to the foundation of my Jean Harlow website (interactive filmography, boatload of trivia, Harlow’s poetry, etc.). The time has come to pass around the tip jar to cover web hosting costs! Link below: harlowheaven.wordpress.com

Over the past year or so I’ve been silently adding bricks to the foundation of my Jean Harlow website (interactive filmography, boatload of trivia, Harlow’s poetry, etc.). The time has come to pass around the tip jar to cover web hosting costs! Link below: harlowheaven.wordpress.com

Van IJsendijk's Koffie en Thee (coffee & tea) by Allan Harker, 1935.

This is what I look like right now, by the way.

Colin Smith@colinsmith.bsky.social · 4w ago

Van IJsendijk's Koffie en Thee (coffee & tea) by Allan Harker, 1935.

Sally Blane #BOTD publicity portrait on the set of the George Stevens short Boys Will Be Boys (1932)

This photo was taken in 1942 at the Florentine Gardens nightclub in Hollywood (Los Angeles, California). Yvonne De Carlo in an exotic dance number called "Jungle Ballet". The role of the gorilla in this show was played by American stuntman and actor Ralph Helfer.

Happy Sam Wood day (born July 10, 1883)! He directed Jean Harlow in Hold Your Man (seen here), saying of her after her death: “She was more eager to be constantly learning than any star I have worked with. She was one of the most genuinely kind-hearted people I have ever known.”

Happy William Wellman Wednesday, here’s a 1920s photo of him about to run stuntman Harvey Parry over with a car

Happy George Cukor Day (#BOTD July 7, 1899!) Here with Jean Harlow and a leaning board on the set of what proved to be their only film together, Dinner at Eight (1933).

Was reminded and keep thinking of the great Louise Brooks vernacular that is “those bums who are presently farting up film history”

Jean Harlow photographed by Clarence Sinclair Bull in one of the bedrooms at her home on Club View Drive 94 years ago today, July 5, 1932

Adrienne Doré in an explosive Fourth of July-themed publicity portrait from my collection. Shot by Elmer Fryer to promote Doré’s last film for Warner Bros, Street of Women (1932) 🧨🎇

Madge Evans #BOTD and Robert Montgomery take a selfie on the set of Harry Beaumont’s Made on Broadway (1933)

Spencer Tracy takes a picture of Madge Evans (#BOTD) on the set of The Show-Off in February 1934

Sensing a pattern with Chester Morris.

“You Like Jean Harlow or You Don’t” by Bert Foster, an interview with Harlow on the set of Reckless (1935) that reveals much about her values and work ethic. From Motion Picture magazine, May 1935:

As a novel, Dorothy Wegman's Glorified (1930) is forgettable. As autobiography, however, it's candid and entertaining, one of the few first-hand accounts of life as a chorus girl and as one of the legendary Ziegfeld Follies girls in roaring 1920s New York. neglectedbooks.com/?...

@celluloidsoul.bsky.social hopefully the winner was you? www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/...

This app sucks lol

94 years ago tonight, June 24, 1932: screenwriter Anita Loos, director Jack Conway, and star Jean Harlow make a personal appearance at Loew’s on Broadway for the premiere of Red-Headed Woman (1932)

Jun 23, 1926: Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson stumbled out of the Mexican desert 100 years ago, after mysteriously disappearing from #VeniceCA the previous month. “Aimee’s disappearance had made national news, but her resurrection made global headlines," Claire Hoffman. #AimeeSempleMcPherson #OTD

This app should be renamed “Adult Babysitters Online”.

Jean Harlow has golf champ Leo Diegel hold up the mirror in her makeup case as she touches up for a publicity portrait taken during a lesson in late 1932:

Lola Todd photographed by Freulich for the lost short, Down in Texas (1924)