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Bombshell
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301967617
Format: Black & White, NTSC
ISBN: 6301967615
Label: MGM (Warner)
Languages: English (Original Language), Analog
Manufacturer: MGM (Warner)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Warner)
Release Date: March 07, 1994
Running Time: 96 minutes
Studio: MGM (Warner)
Theatrical Release Date: October 13, 1933
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Editorial Review:
The whirlwind comedy Bombshell deserves a place in the pantheon next to such screwball cinema classics as Bringing Up Baby and My Man Godfrey. The incomparable "laughing vamp" Jean Harlow, for whom the term bombshell might well have been coined, scintillates in this ferocious exposé of the Hollywood studio system. Harlow essentially plays herself: a platinum blond sex goddess--here named Lola Burns--who every woman wants to be and every man wants to bed. (The line between fiction and reality is so thin here that Lola shoots retakes of Harlow's movie Red Dust.) The world sees Lola's life as a glamorous bed of roses, but her real existence abounds with thorns. She's a "glorified chump," surrounded by sycophants, spongers, and salesmen--not to mention a rabid press, egged on by the studio's double-dealing freight train of a press agent, Space Hanlon (the kinetic Lee Tracy). Lola even has a stalker! But she longs for life's simple pleasures: a quiet home and the patter of little feet (at least that's what she wants this week).
The film is blessed with a first-rate supporting cast, especially Frank Morgan (the Wizard in The Wizard of Oz) as Lola's blowhard, boozing father; Una Merkel as her sour, sticky-fingered personal assistant; and Louise Beavers as her much-beleaguered maid. Three enormous, energetic English sheepdogs--Harlow's own--jump into the fray whenever a dull moment threatens. Luckily, none come to pass. --Laura Mirsky
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - "I'm getting sober, ain't you?"
At a time when Hollywood actresses are flying about the third world in search of adorable photogenic orphans, this pre-Code screwball comedy is more relevant than ever. Jean Harlow shows surprising comic depth as a peroxide blonde actress suddenly struck with the desire to adopt a baby. And what a supporting cast: Louise Beavers, Frank Morgan (the Wizard of Oz in, you know), Una Merkel (W.C Fields' daughter in the Bank Dick), Ted Healy (of Ted Healy and his [3]Stooges), C. Aubrey Smith, Pat O'Brien, ... Read More
Rating: - Action so fast and funny you'd swear The Keystone Cops directed it
Bombshell keeps viewers laughing all the way while giving them an inside look at the abuse of stars under the old Hollywood studio system. Other reviewers are right--the lines ARE funny and double entendres pop out at you all throughout the film. Jean Harlow plays an actress being driven crazy by her mooching family and the movie studio where she works. The striking similarities between Harlow's real life and her character of actress Lola Burns abound. Bombshell even takes it to the point where she has ... Read More
Rating:  - Early screwball comedy
Fast-paced early send-up of Hollywood. Jean Harlow is the actress who gets tired of the whirlwind life and thinks about adopting kids or getting married and quitting pictures; Lee Tracy is the fast-talking, scheming publicity agent who can accomplish more things than a roomful of politicians. The humor is fast and furious and not very subtle (there are some terrific pre-Hayes Office double-entendres), and comes at you like a speeding locomotive. It's a loud, slap-on-the-back sort of comedy that doesn't ... Read More
Rating:  - Hey, Jean Harlow has done much better,
before & after Bombshell. How many times has it been said of this movie that art imitates life. The movie star playing a movie star, barely disguised & made funny. Her real life wasn't funny actually it was a bit too sordid for that. But she did have fun making this. She lampooned herself, Hollywood, agents, relatives & all the other parasites that lived off of her. All in the guise of fiction. That's the heart of this movie right there. There is even a lengthy reference to "Red Dust" an actual movie ... Read More
Rating: - When is Bombshell coming out on DVD?
Does anyone know how to get the studios to put Bombshell on DVD?I hope Amazon could help notify people who has the power to do so.Thanks a ton.
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