Bombshell
An explosion of laughter...with beautiful Jean Harlow as the female fire-cracker of filmdom!
1933 | 96m | English
Popularity: 1 (history)
| Director: | Victor Fleming |
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| Writer: | John Lee Mahin, Jules Furthman, C. Graham Baker, Gene Towne |
| Staring: |
| A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on. | |
| Release Date: | Oct 13, 1933 |
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| Director: | Victor Fleming |
| Writer: | John Lee Mahin, Jules Furthman, C. Graham Baker, Gene Towne |
| Genres: | Comedy, Romance |
| Keywords | newspaper, publicity, paparazzi, celebrity, hollywood, screwball comedy, pre-code, movie star, press agent, tabloid reporter, publicity stunt, old hollywood, blonde bombshell, publicity agent |
| Production Companies | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 (Update) Entered: Apr 15, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Jean Harlow | Lola Burns |
| Lee Tracy | E.J. 'Space' Hanlon |
| Frank Morgan | Pops Burns |
| Franchot Tone | Gifford Middleton |
| Pat O’Brien | Jim Brogan |
| Una Merkel | Mac |
| Ted Healy | Junior Burns |
| Ivan Lebedeff | Marquis Hugo di Binelli di Pisa |
| Isabel Jewell | Nellie, Junior's Girlfriend |
| Louise Beavers | Loretta |
| Leonard Carey | Winters |
| Mary Forbes | Mrs. Middleton |
| C. Aubrey Smith | Mr. Middleton |
| June Brewster | Alice Cole |
| Minerva Urecal | Autograph Seeker (uncredited) |
| Dorothy DeBorba | Girl Getting Lola's Autograph at Table (uncredited) |
| Grace Hayle | Mrs. Titcomb (uncredited) |
| Martha Sleeper | Lola's Hair Stylist (uncredited) |
| Gus Arnheim | Gus Arnheim - Coconut Grove Bandleader (uncredited) |
| Hooper Atchley | Car Salesman (uncredited) |
| Ed Brady | Photographer (uncredited) |
| Don Brodie | Photographer (uncredited) |
| James Burke | First Immigration Officer (uncredited) |
| Primo Carnera | Primo Carnera - in the Opening Montage (uncredited) |
| Billy Dooley | Man Claiming to Be Lola's Husband (uncredited) |
| Ben Erway | Reporter (uncredited) |
| Edward Gargan | Second Immigration Officer (uncredited) |
| Harrison Greene | Reporter (uncredited) |
| Ethel Griffies | Mrs. Ward - Orphanage Representative (uncredited) |
| Tenen Holtz | White - Lola's Agent (uncredited) |
| Kenner G. Kemp | Nightclub Patron (uncredited) |
| Donald Kerr | Monte - Lola's Makeup Man (uncredited) |
| Wilbur Mack | Van Randolph - Hugo's Lawyer (uncredited) |
| Philo McCullough | Reporter (uncredited) |
| Greta Meyer | Lola's Masseuse (uncredited) |
| Miki Morita | Yokahama (uncredited) |
| Philip Morris | Studio Workman (uncredited) |
| Louis Natheaux | Car Salesman (uncredited) |
| William Newell | Lola's Chauffeur (uncredited) |
| Dennis O'Keefe | Nightclub Patron (uncredited) |
| Paul Power | Cocoanut Grove Patron (uncredited) |
| Shirley Ross | Singer (uncredited) |
| Leonard Sillman | Minor Role (uncredited) |
| Dale Van Sickel | Cocoanut Grove Patron (uncredited) |
| Morgan Wallace | H.E. Gillette (uncredited) |
| Kathrin Clare Ward | Older Orphanage Nurse (uncredited) |
| Ruth Warren | Miss Carroll from Photoplay Magazine (uncredited) |
| Allen Wood | Frankie (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Victor Fleming | Director |
| John Lee Mahin | Screenplay |
| Jules Furthman | Screenplay |
| Margaret Booth | Editor |
| Adrian | Costume Design |
| Douglas Shearer | Sound Director |
| Harold Rosson | Director of Photography |
| Norman Krasna | Additional Writing |
| Edwin B. Willis | Set Decoration |
| Dale Van Sickel | Stunts |
| Caroline Francke | Theatre Play |
| Mack Crane | Theatre Play |
| Merrill Pye | Art Direction |
| C. Graham Baker | Writer |
| Gene Towne | Writer |
| William Axt | Original Music Composer |
| Chester A. Lyons | Director of Photography |
| Robert Lee | Assistant Director |
| William Steinkamp | Sound Mixer |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Hunt Stromberg | Associate Producer |
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9.0
This was so much fun to watch, as Harlow tries to have her cake and eat it too, in having both the fine career, adopt a baby, and have true love, which she's trying to discover amongst four very different suitors. Twists abound, and I greatly admire how unchanged she seemed to be (at least in her pe ... rformance here) from her real self. She was definitely one of the best in this period of coming off that way. I simply wish she had made many more films, and hadn't died at such a young age. I definitely look forward to seeing the other six films in the 100th Anniversary Collection I found this in, from Warner Archives.
Jun 23, 2021