Bombshell (film)
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Bombshell is a 1933 film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Jean Harlow, Lee Tracy, Frank Morgan, C. Aubrey Smith, Mary Forbes and Franchot Tone.
Plot summary
Movie star Lola Burns (Harlow) is angry with her studio publicist E.J. "Space" Hanlon (Tracy), who feeds the press with endless fake scandals about her. Lola's family (Morgan plays her father, Pops Burns) and staff is another cause of distress for her, as everybody is always trying to scrape money from the actress. All she really wants is live a normal life and prove the public that she's not a sexy vamp but a proper lady. She then tries to adopt a baby, but Space, who, more or less, secretly loves her, thwarts all her plans. Lola decides she can't stand no more of such a life, and flights away from Hollywood. Far from the movie fluff, she meets wealthy and romantic Gifford Middleton (Tone), who hates the movies and therefore has never heard about Lola and her bad press. They soon fall in love with each other and Gifford proposes marriage. Lola should meet her fiancée's snobby parents, but everything collapses when Space finds her, together with Lola's family, and tells the Middletons the truth! However, Lola feels hurt by the rude manners with which Gifford and his parents dump her, and accepts Hanlon's suggestion to come back to Hollywood with no regrets: this is, after all, her life. ... Little she knows that the three Middletons were all actors hired by Hanlon himself!
Bombshell is an enjoyable screwball comedy, with good performances by the whole cast and witty, sharp lines. This is a Pre-Code film, so some expressions and situations deal with sex and other hot topics in a very free way. Harlow and Tracy are really good in their constant quarrelling and in their love-hate chemistry. It is easy to see that the character of 'Lola Burns' is very much modelled upon the real life of Jean Harlow.
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