1933

96m

Bombshell

Summary

A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.

Cast

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)

Crew

Director

Victor Fleming

Screenplay

Jules Furthman

Screenplay

John Lee Mahin

Theatre Play

Caroline Francke

Theatre Play

Mack Crane

Writer

C. Graham Baker

Writer

Gene Towne

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 performance 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.