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Released October 13, 1933
Featuring Ted Healy (Solo)
MGM
95.5 min. (Feature Film)

Lola Burns (Jean Harlow) is a famous movie superstar who has grown tired of the life of glamour and wants something more fulfilling. However, her publicity agent Space Hanlon (Lee Tracy) is always dreaming up scandalous tales to keep her name in the headlines. Lola tries to bring a sense of home-life to her harried existence by adding a family. She plans to adopt a baby and settle down with her director (Pat O'Brien), but each of her plans are dashed by Hanlon's sneaky duplicity. Meanwhile, her freeloading father (Frank Morgan) and drunkard brother Junior (Ted Healy) keep mucking up her chances at a normal life. Hanlon hatches a plan to end her desires for home and family, but eventually realizes that the reason he is spending so much time on Lola's publicity is that he's falling for her.

So as not to mislead audiences into thinking this was a war picture, MGM re-titled the film BLONDE BOMBSHELL for its initial run in the United Kingdom.

Frank Morgan is best remembered for his 1939 role of the Wizard in THE WIZARD OF OZ.

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Jean Harlow
Lola Burns

Lee Tracy
E. J. Hanlon

Pat O'Brien
Jim Brogan

Frank Morgan
Pops Burns

Ted Healy
Junior Burns

Franchot Tone
Gifford Middleton

Mary Forbes
Mrs. Middleton

C. Aubrey Smith
Mr. Middleton

June Brewster
Alice Cole

Primo Carnera
Himself, opening montage

Clark Gable
1st lover, opening montage

Nils Asther
2nd lover, opening montage

Donald Kerr
Monte, makeup man

Martha Sleeper
Hair stylist

Greta Meyer
Masseuse

Ruth Warren
Miss Carroll

Minerva Urecal
Autograph seeker

William Newell
Lola's chauffeur

Bill Dooley
Lola's 'husband'

Allen Wood
Frankie

Tenen Holtz
Lola's agent

Louis Natheaux
Car salesman

Philip Morris
Studio workman

Ivan Lebedeff
Hugo di Binelli

James Burke
Immigration officer

Edward Gargan
Immigration officer

Kenner G. Kemp
Nightclub patron

Dennis O'Keefe
Nightclub patron

Ben Erway
Reporter

Morgan Wallace
H. E. Gillette

Wilbur Mack
Ben Randolph

Don Brodie
Publicity photographer

Grace Hayle
Mrs. Titcomb

Kathrin Clare Ward
Orphanage nurse

Ed Brady
Press photographer

Miki Morita
Yokohama

Leonard Sillman
Jerry Beyers

Mary Carr
Miss Talley

Hooper Atchley
Desk clerk

Dorothy DeBorba
Girl at autograph table

Marcia Mae Jones
Flower girl


Hunt Stromberg
Associate Producer

Robert Lee
Assistant Director

Jules Furthman
Screenplay

John Lee Mahin
Screenplay

Caroline Francke
Original Play

Mack Crane
Original Play

Norman Krasna
Additional Dialogue

Harold Rosson
Photography

Chester A. Lyons
Assistant Photography

Margaret Booth
Film Editor

Merrill Pye
Art Director

Douglas Shearer
Recording Director

Edwin B. Willis
Set Decoration

Adrian
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