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Summary: DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY!
Review: Don't get me wrong--this is a great read and I highly recommend it. I do object to the quality of this book--it looks like it came off a laser printer, the type on the page is irregular and the picture reproduction is abysmal. ...Great book, lousy publishing!
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Summary: The original Platinum Blond Bombshell
Review: fascinating story, of lost loves, tragic marriages, glamorous career with wonderful Golden era Hollywood gossip thrown in. An Absolute Must Read for Jean Harlow fans or fans of the golden movie era. She was beautiful and his book does her legend justice!
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Summary: The Definitive Bio of Jean Harlow
Review: For any fan of Jean Harlow, this is the book to buy. David Stenn's exhaustive research paid off as this is a very objective and fair book about a subject who has now been dead for over 60 years. Fortunately for the author and his readers, when Mr. Stenn did his research many friends and acquaintances of Jean Harlow's were still with us and lucid enough to provide good information about the life and career of Harlow.
This book is very easy to read and chronicles a short life which was probably as interesting as any character Jean Harlow played in the movies. The anecdotes provided made me feel as though I knew Harlow personally and the end result was that I walked away from this book really caring about the subject and finding that I also really liked her a lot as a person. I have also found that I appreciate her artistry even more each time I watch one of her movies.
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Summary: EXCELLENT CHOICE!
Review: I love true stories and good biographies. Therefore, discovering David Stenn has been a goldmine. His two books (another is called "Running Wild" on the life of Clara Bow) are done professionally, and are highly readable. Jean Harlow was a heroine who was used/abused by a greedy family, a pack of leeches, and unscrupulous movie company executives who treated their stars on contracts more like they were kids trading baseball cards. Although no saint, Jean has a lot of genuine virtues that Stenn manages to bring out. Her dragic demise is heartbreaking. I'm also watching her movies this month. It is Jean Harlow month on TCM! And she is great!
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Summary: Gone too young...
Review: Kudos to David Stern for another carefully researched and well-writen biography of a classic Hollywood legend. Jean Harlow's white blond hair and smoldering looks on screen promised a good time. But under that cloud of hair was a charming and witty person who if she was alive today, I would love to listen too. David Stern shows the young woman who was under her mother (Mama Jean)'s thumb but not completely down-trodden. In her brief life, Jean Harlow made several classic films (Bombshell, Dinner at Eight, Red Headed Woman), endured a string of marriages and even wrote a book that was published many years after her tragic death.
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Summary: GET THIS BOOK -- TODAY
Review: Next month Turner Classic Movies will be running a festival of Jean Harlow films. Do yourself a favor -- get this wonderful book TODAY, because one will aid your appreciation of the other. That is, having the book will make you want to see these films -- which you should see -- and reading the book will make you appreciate them all the more. What a lovely girl. She was SOOOOOO special. And this book is worthy of her, and that IS something.
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Summary: Solid biographic study of 30's Hollywood icon
Review: With "Bombshell", David Stenn has written "the" Harlow biography. Unlike rehashed, repackaged bios which are more about the writer than the subject, Stenn gives us first hand new interviews with family, friends and co-workers that offer insight into the person, not the "goddess" Harlow. Contradictions abound in her personality, not unlike her successor, Marilyn Monroe. Sweet, but exhibitionistic, loyal, yet mult-married, Stenn balances all these qualities and produces a real life Jean Harlow, not always unlike her screen personality, but, with this book, no longer a slave to it.
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