Actor: Jean Harlow

Dinner At Eight (1933)

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After seeing Jean Harlow in a role that was all too small in The Public Enemy, I wanted to see more of her as soon as possible. Harlow is great as the whining, spoiled wife of a brash, power-mad businessman (Wallace Beery). “Doctor Talbot says yer a extravurt an I’m a intravurt, and intravurt you [...]


The Public Enemy (1931)

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We are all so used to hearing people do bad impersonations of James Cagney that it is all too easy to dismiss him as a one-trick pony who did nothing but talk tough with a slight lisp and a vibrato in his cadence. In The Public Enemy, the film that made Cagney a star, he [...]


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“You think those brass buttons you got give you a hunting permit on respectable citizens.”
-George Kelly (Charles Bronson)
from Machine-Gun Kelly