Carroll Baker as Harlow(1965)tearjerker ending.

The newly remastered version of Harlow proves that it is a totally fictitious,often annoying(with a totally overblown,musical score). Still the final death scene is undeniably a tearjerker scene, highlighted by Angela Lansbury's suoperb emoting as "Mama Jean." Enjoy

[@MbartM96]

This film is offensive in its inaccuraces and it doesnt really stay true to the events of harlows life.Even her death is innacurate,jean died of kidney failure not pneumonia.The film is a melodramatic look at Harlow's life.What we need is an accurate film of her life,with an actress that actually looks similar to harlow.Even the costumes look more 60s than 1930s...

[@sweetspirit3887]

MBM96 if this a lie there should be a new movie about Jean Harlow..the honest to goodness story!

[@erikabonato5395]

Sim, concordo plenamente contigo. É horrível esse filme e um desserviço à memória de JEAN HARLOW.

[@Canadiana71]

And they kept the 1960's look fashionable for a woman back then and made ZERO attempt to make her like Jean in the 1930's ie thin eyebrows, crimped hair. She looks more like Jane Mansfield than Jean Harlow. Major FAIL.

[@Canadiana71]

Jean Harlow went into a coma before she died and it wasn't just before she did a monologue either.

[@fromthesidelines]

Let's just say this was as factual as "The Benny Goodman Story".

[@fromthesidelines]

2:41- DOCTOR: "Now, I suggest all of you leave so we can start the montage.......and I can go out and play golf with Bing Crosby."

[@johnm893]

this movie is fun and frothy never to be taken as serious docrudrama.......theme song is one of my very favorites............

[@tonykluck8458]

Fictitious nonsense aside, this notorious film has a lot of great music by Neal Hefti, including the songs, "Lonely Girl" and "Girl Talk" among many other memorable music cues. Yes, it's all overblown and even hysterically funny (in spite of itself) due primarily to Carroll Baker's melodramatic, over-the-top performance. Her breakdown in the dressing room is jaw-dropping. I only wish the "Harlow" album included more of the music lifted directly from the soundtrack instead of re-recordings with arrangements that come across, sadly, as cheesy. The first few minutes of the movie alone, in which the "Lonely Girl" theme is first presented, is a wonderful instrumental arrangement, building in intensity through key changes to a full, orchestral climax. Alas, that is available only in the film itself, not on the album. Even Bobby Vinton's vocal release of "Lonely Girl" is a suped-up mess compared to the more appropriately melancholy rendition you hear at the end of this movie clip.

[@annmeyer2854]

I so wished the lush soundtrack had been used in a real movie. The opening music is brilliant- perfect backdrop for a studio opening at dawn. Melancholy LONELY GIRL, minus the lyrics, is extremely touching. What a waste of a beautiful score.

[@frederickcombs8661]

This movie was filmed in this way. Actors had the script the night before filming the next day, one walk through and it was filmed, cut print it! Almost the entire thing was done with one take for each scene. Less time than a Soap. The reason was because Gulf-Western had just purchased Paramount and they wanted money now with none going out.

[@kvngggaladrosa]

Gulf + Western bought Paramount a year later, actually.

[@davidoman]

Actually she died of Kidney Failure...Not Pneumonia

[@sweetspirit3887]

David Oman this is just so unfortunate that they have to fabricate the story of Jean Harlow!!

[@charlessoutherton8946]

@@sweetspirit3887 every bi-opic has been fabricated from minor to major, look at all the Marilyn Monroe movies/TV shows that have been fabricated, Look at how many stories their are of the Kennedy's, and the rest of hollywood between 1920-1960+

[@jeffreysnydr]

@@sweetspirit3887 Yeah, it's almost insulting to her memory...

[@MovieMusicFun1]

i think the carol lynley version is available from a lowbudget video company for like 7 bux. it use to play on TV. Ginger Rogers played Mama Jean. yea, the book is great and Stella, Carroll,Carol and even ginger as a young chick were all beauties, like Jean. This sure is a sad scene..its playing in the background.

[@Canadiana71]

Wait. Wasn't she in a coma?

[@cashdarealmoney1128]

Yes

[@MovieMusicFun1]

yea angela was great in this. The movie is hard to take, it is just so totally fictiitous. has her as already being in a whole bunch of short films before being cast in hells angels, has her making a pass at her stepfahter(whom i think her mother had divorced when she died), has nothing about her relatinonship with will powell,has nothing about how critcs began to see she had talent,has her career fading at her death,totla fiction...the carpetbaggers is much better,but again harlow is fiction.

[@EOCC13]

Carroll Baker deserved the Oscar.

[@pamelagonzalvez5801]

Rip Angela

[@ForeverJudyGarland]

not the best film about her but the ending is definitely a tearjerker

[@jeanavery2833]

Great movie l really enjoyed it casting Great as well.l laughed, l cried almost every emotion l have l felt from this movie should always be shone .l really cried @the End.calijean

[@skreety0455]

Gotcha! Those big film studios really knew how to jumble those bios. The shock is really how young Harlow was upon death. That's one real fact. Coma or pneumonia or whatever. Mama Jean did exist .

[@MovieMusicFun1]

Carroll looked so beautiful in this and Sylvia. She really swtiched her image, from cllean cut days of But not for me and The Big country...I guess she wanted to be the next Marilyn. I think Stella Stevens could have been the next Marilyn. Carroll was small chested for an actress of that time, surprised they didnt pad her.BTW, wtached The Carpetbaggers again,and it is now really quite a good film, with Carroll in an even less flattering totally fictitious variation on Jean.Alan ladd was great.

[@Ate310]

I saw this movie and I thought it wasn't that bad(it wasn't also that good). it works as a movie, just not as a Jean Harlow Biopic.

[@tkegal]

Jean Harlow's mother was a nightmare. Angela Lansbury gave her more heart than she really had.

[@JacobSmith-yh7yo]

Song!?

[@stephenbyrne2170]

Poor lass.

[@klaus-dieterkoch363]

This harlot movie is not about the real Jean Harlow. It's timing exploits the audience 's adulation after MM' s death in 1962.

[@cynthiahawkins2389]

I know. I really like Carroll Baker. She is a fine actress. But I share the oy-veys about all this. Myrna Loy was a close friend of Harlow's, and because of Jean's relationship with William Powell, they often saw one another socially. When asked, later...Miss Loy clearly recalled Jean's odd 'sunburn', an indication of serious renal failure. This was years before transplants or dialysis so unfortunately, Miss Harlow was doomed. The speculation about an abortion, lack of good care, or her mother forbidding the doctors to treat her - all lies. Jean was extremely well-looked after. She just was too gravely ill, and in hat time and place, could not have survived.

[@gatitoiberico]

Jessica fletcher♥️♥️

[@JacobLomax]

Her giant wig while dying

[@kvngggaladrosa]

BRO SHUT UP THAT’S ALL I CAN SAY 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@MovieMusicFun1]

Speaking of Carol Lynley. I saw her about 2 years ago, on TV, and she doesn't look well at all. I wonder how she is making out. I always enjoyed watching her on the screen,esp The Cardinal, Blue Denim and The Poseidon Adventure....

[@annmeyer2854]

She died in 2020

This movie has terrific performances, Carol Baker , Angela Lansbury, Red Buttons they all give great performances, yes the script and facts are skewed and the period is not authentic and there is a lot of crap, but it is a campy, trashy, cult favorite . Hollywood covered up a lot about Jean Harlow and Paul Bern,and the circumstances surrounding his death and his life. The films were not about to delve into that in the 60's , but Baker is a joy to watch here as was Lynley,who did well in her own right, but I felt Baker had more of Harlow's Glamor and sexiness,and she is one of my favorite blonde beauties, this is a bad film in some aspects,yes but one of the BEST BAD FILMS EVER!I loved Baker as Rina Marlowe in Carpet Baggers, also who is a thinly disquised Jean Harlow, type.

[@maryexstroughtonaire4244]

Looks like the old Batman background 😂

[@mj75au]

I'd assume Carroll hammed up her performance quite alot as she didn't want to do the film, she was contractually bound to do it for MGM... she even made her friend a script writer write it as she ran away when reading the first script... true OTT Hollywood of the day, and love Carroll Baker. Was any movie on a famous stars life accurate back then, or even now!!?? Lol

[@MovieMusicFun1]

thanks for the review of the Carol Lynley version. If you go to the youtube clip of Ms. Lynleys version ,I think it is available on dvd,for a better low price. I seem to remember someone playing Marie Dressler in that version. It was shock in a then pioneering sort of video that transferred to film,very quick to competer with this version. Does anyone know which one got released first? Also to confuse the public they chose another Carol in the low budget version.

[@bobs2272]

The Lynley version was released 2 months before the Baker version, and it got panned even worse than this version. I must disagree with the comment about the soundtrack, however. Neal Hefti was a brilliant composer/conductor, Girl Talk was nominated for an Oscar (from this movie), and Lonely Girl (not the lyrics, but the music) is one of my all-time favorite pieces that I thought caught the sadness of Harlow better than anything else in this movie. Both are on YT.

[@dennismichael5891]

my fav movie as a young boy...

[@johnboys4697]

Mine too

[@cynthiahawkins2389]

Jean Harlow's medical records were unsealed after years of wrangling. It turns out she was extremely well cared for, but doomed. Her kidney problems, which lead to uremic poisoning, in the days before dialysis, antibiotics and surgery, sealed her fate. Her mother, religious beliefs aside - did NOT forbid them to look after her. So much of this is typical Hollywood tweaking. Like many, I love Angela Lansbury, and Carroll Baker was no slouch in other stuff. This is fun for just what it is - mental potato chips.

[@songbirdy]

People are remarking how she died was inaccurate here. Could it be that she did die of kidney failure secondary to the primary case of pneumonia? Eventually, as you die, all of your organs start to shut down. Also, wasn't it b/c her mother was a Christian Scientist and did not believe in doctors there was a delay in medical treatment?t. Just what I always heard.

[@cindy-hz2xb]

They need to do a better film on harlow

[@MovieMusicFun1]

i thought i would like it as i did as a kid. but it was just so phony,and that music they played that song til i was ready to puke. Was the carol lynley version any better? Did you hear there is a new picture book, Harlow in Hollywood. It sounds great. the cover is awesome. This scene is the only great part of the film. It made me cry a lot of times when you relate it to the real jean. It is true she gave so much for others,esp mom and step dad supported them. She didnt die of pneumonia tho.

[@kvngggaladrosa]

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