Jean Harlow
b.3/03/1911 Kansas City, Missouri
d.6/07/1937
Birth name Harlean Carpenter Elopes with boyfriend from Kansas City to Los Angeles and is cast as extras on film lots Discovered by Hal Roach as an extra and adopts mother’s maiden name of Harlow Traded by Roach to Howard Hughes’ Studios where she becomes top box office female lead Died of brain hemorrhage at age twenty-six First cinematic movie “Saturday Night Kid” 1929
Filmography:
Saturday Night Kid, Hell’s Angels, Secret Six, Iron Man, Public Enemy, Goldie, Platinum Blonde, Three Wise Girls, Beast of the City, Red Headed Women, Red Dust, Hold Your Man, Bombshell, Dinner at Eight, Girl from Missouri, Reckless, China Sea, Rifraff, Suzy, Libeled Lady, Personal Property, Saratoga