Bombshell (1933)

User Rating:

7.5/10   

Writers:

Caroline Francke (play) and
Mack Crane (play) ...

Release Date:

13 October 1933 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

Plot:

Sexpot film star Lola Burns seeks a new image and tries marrying a marquis, adopting a baby -- all sorts of schemes which go awry.

Plot Keywords:

Newspaper | Baby | Hollywood | Movie Fan | Male Female Relationship

Cast

Jean Harlow	...	Lola Burns
Lee Tracy	...	E.J."Space"Hanlon
Frank Morgan	...	Pops Burns
Franchot Tone	...	Gifford Middleton
Pat O'Brien	...	Jim Brogan
Una Merkel	...	Mac
Ted Healy	...	Junior Burns
Ivan Lebedeff	...	Hugo, Marquis Di Pisa Di Pisa
Isabel Jewell	...	Lily, Junior's Girl Friend (as Isobel Jewell)
Louise Beavers	...	Loretta
Leonard Carey	...	Winters
Mary Forbes	...	Mrs. Middleton
C. Aubrey Smith	...	Mr. Wendell Middleton
June Brewster	...	Alice Cole
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Nils Asther	...	Undetermined Role (scenes deleted)
Marcia Mae Jones	...	Flower girl at wedding
Willard Mack	...	Hugo's Lawyer (scenes deleted)
Etta Moten	...	Undetermined Role (scenes deleted)

Also Known As:

Blonde Bombshell (UK)

Runtime:

96 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Certification:

Australia:G | USA:Passed

Filming Locations:

Ambassador Hotel - 3400 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Trivia:

The Three Stooges (Larry Fine, Curly Howard and Moe Howard) were to be in the movie but never appeared.

Quotes:

Lola Burns: Get away from me, all of you! you're nothing but a pack of leeches!
Pops: Leeches?
Lola Burns: Yes, leeches! At least he
[motions to Space]
Lola Burns: was right; I don't know how I expected to bring a baby in here with an old fool for his grandfather who's half-drunk all the time!
Mac: Lola, you're exciting yourself...
Lola Burns: And what about you? Don't think I don't know about your stealing and all the cuts you get from the stores! And you
[to Bro]
Lola Burns: who hasn't had a job to your name in three years and bringing her in here like it was a hotel for traveling salesman! I've only stood it because it's the only home and family I've got. But I'm sick of it, you understand? There's only Loretta and the dogs that ever do a single thing for me. The rest of you are only out for what you can get, and I'm sick of being a golden goose or whatever you call it!
Space Hanlon: Atta girl, Sugar!
[...]

Movie Connections:

Featured in Harlow: The Blonde Bombshell (1993) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Lazybones

Shining jazz comedy from one of America's best directors

Jean Harlow shines as a movie sex starlet who's tired of all the negative publicity drummed up by her studio's publicist (Tracy) to promote her career. she wants to adopt a baby and play "respectable" roles, but society's mavens continually reject her (this "picture girl") and everything she tries to do for herself is thwarted by Tracy, who (more or less) secretly loves her. Very funny and well directed by Fleming, not slapstick as some claim, but more like Hawks/Sturges/Wilder style "screwball."