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Jean Harlow — Beauty and the Beast
First exploited on the screen for various anatomical reasons, Jean Harlow later astounded her public by developing from the platinum blonde siren of Hell's Angels into an expert comedienne who, in Red Dust and Dinner at Eight, became simultaneously a box office sensation and the critics' delight. Born Harlean Carpenter in 1911 in Kansas City, Missouri, she eloped at 16, was divorced at 20. Her subsequent marriages and rumored romances have made newspaper history. Her next film will be Spoiled; she is the author of an unpublished novel, Tonight Is Today; and she holds the unofficial dice record at Agua Caliente casino, with 34 straight passes
