Amusing, fast, in-joke MGM comedy around the supposed life of film star Jean Harlow right after Red Dust (which is referenced in the film). PR man Lee Tracy continually gives Harlow problems, her family are moochers, her secretary steals her clothes and has unofficial parties, her European boyfriend is a bastard. It catches early thirties Hollywood life well. Harlow's great, stropping around in long takes.
With Frank Morgan (her father), Pat O'Brien (film director), Franchot Tone, Una Merkel, Ted Healy, Isabel Jewell...
TANGENT ALERT: A Tiger Walks. Disney film with Merkel and Pamela Franklin about a small town with an escaped tiger, also with Brian Keith, Vera Miles, Sabu, Edward Andrews, Frank McHugh. 1964. DVD available but expensive.
...Louise Beavers, Mary Forbes, C. Aubrey Smith. Photographed by Hal Rosson, edited by Margaret Booth.
John Lee Mahin and Jules Furthman wrote it (with Norman Krasna), from a play by Caroline Francke and Mack Crane.
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