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best movie i've ever seen.

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

It's nice to see Jean Harlow in a major role after her breakout performances in 1932, but this film is saddled with a weak script, and filled with noisy and annoying performances. Harlow plays a Hollywood starlet and is awfully shrill in the first half of the film, but the biggest problem is Lee Tracy, who plays a slick studio publicity agent. His actions in keeping Harlow in line, his voice, and his smugness all made me want to reach back in time 83 years and punch him in the face, and yet he is positioned as the 'good guy'. Ugh! The attempts at comedy are dated, but Tracy manipulating it so Harlow can't adopt a child because he believes she couldn't do that and have a career is just sickening, not clever.There are some in-jokes in the film, the best of which is 'Harlow playing Harlow' and the barrel scene from 'Red Dust'. It's nice to see Frank Morgan, better known as being the Wizard of Oz, and it's always nice to see Harlow, and here she tells off the leeches in her life in a nice scene, coos over a baby, and later rides a horse. However, it's pretty bad when your favorite part of the movie is the three sheepdogs! This one is overrated and disappointing.

Fun Jean Harlow movie here as she plays a starlet pretty much created by the media via sensational headlines and her trying to get away from all of it (gee, how times change). The movie has that 1930's crackle where everyone is super hyper talking all at once, and you're struggling to catch up with all of it. Even though Harlow is the title Bombshell, I was really impressed with Lee Tracy as her publicist who seems to know Harlow more than she knows herself. It sort of does get monotonous towards the end, and the twist just doesn't really resolve anything, as a matter of fact, we're right back where we started. But it's still a fun sit through.

Lola Burns is a star. Her antics and films are lapped up by an eager, movie star mad public. The reality is very different. She doesn't have a minute to call her own. Her free loading family are bleeding her dry. Her dipsomaniac father is continually asking for large sums of money for his race track habit. She is also financing her loafer brother to pay his gambling debts in Tijuana.Lola longs for respectability. During an interview with a woman from "The Ladies Home Companion" talk turns to motherhood and Lola begins to yearn for a cosy home, a husband and babies!!!! She decides to adopt a baby but the interview with two women from the adoption agency turns into a disaster as brother rolls up with his girlfriend and a fight breaks out between brother, father and gentlemen of the press!!!Lee Tracy is superb as Hanlon, the newspaper reporter, who really loves Lola. With his machine gun delivery of witty one liners - I haven't seen him in many films but I want to see more. "I feel like a gentleman down here" says Tracy, while staying at a resort. Lola retorts - "that's the nearest you'll ever get to one."Ted Healey plays her brother (he looks old enough to be her father)!! Isabel Jewel plays his dizzy girlfriend (one of Hollywood's most under-rated actresses, in my opinion). Franchot Tone is the "gentle- man". "Your hair is like a field of daisies - I'd like to run bare- foot through your hair". Tracy retorts "he looks like an athlete - I wouldn't want him putting his foot on my head"!!!! Dorothy Deborba ("Echo" from "Our Gang") plays the little autograph girl. There is a weird continuity mistake in that scene. Franchot Tone's mother has a little pomeranian, in the next shot it isn't there, then it is, then it isn't. I noticed it the first time I saw the film. It was a careless mistake. There is also a running gag involving Bill Dooley as a man claiming to be Lola's husband, who pops up at the most inoportune times.Harlow is the whole show - her big speech to her free-loading family is great - "I'm getting pretty sick of being the goose that lays the golden egg around here" and "I'm just a glorified chump" are some of the wisecracks.In a case of art imitating real life - the movie had a lot in common with Clara Bow's private life - even Una Merkel playing a Daisy De Voe type private secretary (she even looked like her). The studio was Monarch Studios but the hidden sign was clearly MGM. The film she was working on was "Red Dust" - in one scene the director (Pat O'Brien) and Lola were standing around the famous rainwater barrel, discussing how she would play the scene with Clark Gable. At the beginning of the film there is a scene with Gable and Harlow in "Hold Your Man". Gable's name also comes up when Tracy decides to go to some foreign country - Lola says something like "you can't go there remember what happened to Clark Gable in "Susan Lennox" - talk about free publicity!!!!I would really recommend this film.

I would call "The Bombshell" (UK: "The Blonde Bombshell") Jean Harlow's funniest comedy. She exhibits enormous acting range, from emotional anguish to maternal care to melting passion, all in the service of farce. The movie's frenetic dialogue and propulsive urgency also make athletic use of Lee Tracy, the fastest talking lead actor on the screen.In "Platinum Blonde" (1931) Harlow somewhat stiffly embodies genteel sex in service of a comedy. By 1933's "Dinner At Eight" she stands her own paired with two mighty talents. She spars lustily with Wallace Beery, a Falstaffian scene-seizer. Her lines as straight woman to Marie Dressler could not be more exquisitely rendered.To an extent Lola Burns in "The Bombshell" spoofs Harlow's own career and image. Her character even does a retake of the rain barrel scene from "Red Dust" (1932), a picture which had Harlow sunnily portraying a good-time girl along the Malay rivers. More broadly, she helps satirize an entire merciless industry which could cruelly grind up creative personnel's egos, private lives, and sanity.Yet, we don't have the corrosive movie-biz self-criticism of "What Price Hollywood?" (1932) or its "A Star Is Born" descendants. For all the muck it rakes up about the studio system, this remains a fun picture, a supremely good time, and a roisterous showcase for a talented star who died far too soon.Marilyn Monroe had wanted to play Harlow in a biopic. Both luminous women left impressive, abbreviated legacies.