Post by Doghouse6 on Apr 2, 2018 1:44:28 GMT
While the aforementioned Stanwyck and Crawford were doing the same, Jean Harlow appeared as several ladies of the lower classes.
In 1932, the amoral Red Headed Woman schemed to snag well-to-do Chester Morris by any pre-code means:
After the 1934 advent of the PCA, The Girl From Missouri resolved to land a wealthy husband while retaining her virtue...
...but wasn't above a dirty trick or two in a pinch to derail Lionel Barrymore's objections to son Franchot Tone's attractions to her.
In 1932's Red Dust, she competed for the affections of Clark Gable with the more refined Mary Astor...
...and did so again with the veddy uppah crust Rosalind Russell in 1935's China Seas:
1933 gave us two Harlow iterations of having made good after modest upbringings, the effects of which still linger:
Dinner At Eight, in which hubby Wallace Beery threatens to throw her "back into the gutter" whence she came...
...and Bombshell, as a successful film actress who finally rebels against the "pack of leeches" - her shady brother Ted Healy and father Frank Morgan, unscrupulous press agent Lee Tracy and various hangers-on - incessantly scuttling her aspirations to social respectability:
In 1932, the amoral Red Headed Woman schemed to snag well-to-do Chester Morris by any pre-code means:
After the 1934 advent of the PCA, The Girl From Missouri resolved to land a wealthy husband while retaining her virtue...
...but wasn't above a dirty trick or two in a pinch to derail Lionel Barrymore's objections to son Franchot Tone's attractions to her.
In 1932's Red Dust, she competed for the affections of Clark Gable with the more refined Mary Astor...
...and did so again with the veddy uppah crust Rosalind Russell in 1935's China Seas:
1933 gave us two Harlow iterations of having made good after modest upbringings, the effects of which still linger:
Dinner At Eight, in which hubby Wallace Beery threatens to throw her "back into the gutter" whence she came...
...and Bombshell, as a successful film actress who finally rebels against the "pack of leeches" - her shady brother Ted Healy and father Frank Morgan, unscrupulous press agent Lee Tracy and various hangers-on - incessantly scuttling her aspirations to social respectability: