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Jean Harlow

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Actress

The Resume

    (March 3, 1911-June 7, 1937)
    Birth name is Harlean Harlow Carpenter
    Appeared in 'Hell's Angels (1930),' 'Public Enemy,' 'The (1931),' 'Platinum Blonde (1931),' 'Red Dust (1932),' 'Dinner at Eight (1933),' 'Bombshell (1933),' 'Girl from Missouri,' 'The (1934),' 'Reckless (1935),' 'Libeled Lady (1936)' and 'Saratoga (1937)'
    Her nickname was 'The Blonde Bombshell'

Why she might be annoying:

    She smoked.
    She was twice divorced.
    Her famous platinum blonde hair was actuality bottle-fed.
    She refered to herself in the third person.
    She refused the blond female lead in King Kong (1933), as well as the female lead in the Todd Browning cult-classic Freaks (1932).
    She was superstitious. She always wore a 'lucky' ankle chain on her left leg (visible in some films if you look closely). She had a 'lucky' mirror in her dressing room. She wouldn't leave the room without first looking at it.
    She didn't wear underwear.
    She married at fifteen.

Why she might not be annoying:

    She died of uremic poisoning brought on by acute nephritis when she was only twenty-six.
    She ranked #10 in Playboy's Sex Stars of the Century.
    She ranked #22 on the American Film Institute's '100 Years, 100 Legends' list (June, 1999).
    She was the very first film actress to grace the cover of LIFE magazine (May, 1937).
    Marilyn Monroe, idolized her.
    Her final film Saratoga (1937) became the highest grossing film of 1937 and set all-time house records, due almost entirely to Harlow's untimely death.
    Clark Gable described her as 'the bravest girl I ever met.'
    She posed nude at seventeen.

Credit: Cosmic Princess


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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 5 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 23 Votes: 39.13% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 85 Votes: 51.76% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 64 Votes: 42.19% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 118 Votes: 42.37% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 52 Votes: 48.08% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 24 Votes: 54.17% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 35 Votes: 51.43% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 22 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 22 Votes: 13.64% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 65 Votes: 44.62% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 164 Votes: 64.63% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 55 Votes: 36.36% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 87 Votes: 44.83% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 265 Votes: 66.42% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 168 Votes: 38.69% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 353 Votes: 32.58% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 917 Votes: 43.51% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 398 Votes: 40.20% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 837 Votes: 42.53% Annoying
    In 2004, Out of 564 Votes: 41.31% Annoying
    In 2003, Out of 1061 Votes: 42.60% Annoying
    In 2002, Out of 2868 Votes: 35.39% Annoying