Purring pussycat Nov 20, 2009
From the outset, MGM tapped into the audience's desire for glamour and the company created a stable of stars, including legends such as Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow and Clark Gable. Like its rivals, MGM produced 50 films a year, including seminal titles such as The Wizard of Oz, Northwest Passage and Gone With the Wind. (BBC News -- Business)
The man behind Mickey and the theme parks Oct 25, 2009
The short showcases a parade of the era s stars - including Greta Garbo, Laurel and Hardy, Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, Charlie Chaplin, the Marx Brothers, all in cartoon form - as they arrive at Grauman s Chinese Theatre for Mickey s new movie release (it was called Galloping Romance ). The studio s preparation in the years leading up to 1937 s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first feature-length cartoon, was extraordinary: Disney paid for his animators to attend figure-drawing classes, and... (Boston Globe)
The Secret Glamour of the Tin Man Sep 22, 2009
Old Hollywood glamour is Jean Harlow lounging suggestively in a white satin gown or Fred Astaire sweeping Ginger Rogers across a ballroom floor; Rita Hayworth peeling off long black gloves or Greta Garbo staring mysteriously off to sea. It is decidedly not a gingham-clad, jolie laide farm girl and her scrappy little dog. (Slate)
Looking at how film comedy lasts - or doesn't Sep 12, 2009
They have their place in the Funny Lady pantheon (ruled to this day, by Jean Harlow, Carole Lombard and Lucille Ball). Speaking of "Funny Lady," is there anything less funny than a Barbra Streisand movie from the 1970s. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Last Goodbye Sep 5, 2009
Jackson will share eternity at Forest Lawn with the likes of Clark Gable, Jean Harlow and W.C. Fields, entombed alongside them in the mausoleum that will be all but off-limits to adoring fans who might otherwise turn the pop star's grave into a shrine. The closest the public will be able to get to Jackson's vault is a portion of the mausoleum that displays "The Last Supper Window," a life-size stained-glass re-creation of Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece. (Fox News)
Poignant final farewell as Jackson laid to rest Sep 4, 2009
The mausoleum housing Jackson is also home to Hollywood icons Clark Gable, Jean Harlow and Carole Lombard. Other stars buried elsewhere at Forest Lawn include Humphrey Bogart, James Stewart, Spencer Tracy and Walt Disney. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Sprinkling of fans seek view of Jackson funeral Sep 4, 2009
Jackson is scheduled to be interred in the Great Mausoleum, where he will be joining Hollywood legends such as Clark Gable, Jean Harlow and W.C. Fields. (AP Photo/Nick Ut). (Rapid City Journal, SD)
Star-Studded Mausoleum Awaits Jackson Sep 4, 2009
Cemetery Where King of Pop will be Laid to Rest Holds Hollywood Icons Clark Gable, Jean Harlow ... Michael Jackson will rest in the cemetery's Great Mausoleum with Hollywood stars including Clark Gable, Jean Harlow and W.C. Fields ... Jackson will rest in the with Hollywood stars including Clark Gable, Jean Harlow and W.C. Fields. (CBS News -- Early Show)
Final farewell for Michael Jackson at star-studded LA cemetery Sep 4, 2009
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Jackson entombment far from cameras Sep 4, 2009
-- Michael Jackson will share eternity with the likes of Clark Gable, Jean Harlow and W.C. Fields, entombed alongside them in a grand marble mausoleum that will be all but off-limits to adoring fans who might otherwise turn the pop star s grave into a shrine. AP photo. (KHOU.com, TX)
Star-filled mausoleum awaits Michael Jackson Sep 3, 2009
Jackson will rest in the cemetery's Great Mausoleum with Hollywood stars including Clark Gable, Jean Harlow and W.C. Fields. Jackson's funeral won't end the legal drama over his drug-induced death at age 50, which authorities have labeled a homicide. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
Michael Jackson's estate ordered to foot bill for interment Sep 3, 2009
The Great Mausoleum of the cemetery will become Jackson's last resting place, where he'll join Hollywood legends such as Clark Gable, Jean Harlow as well as vivid or life-sized replicas by masters of the Renaissance era. Editor: Mu Xuequan. (Xinhuanet, China)
Judge: Jackson's Estate to Pay for Funeral Sep 3, 2009
He will be placed in the Great Mausoleum, where he'll join Hollywood legends such as Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, W.C. Fields and Red Skelton, as well as "The Last Supper Window," a life-size stained glass recreation of Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece. MMIX, The Associated Press. (CBS News)
Quiet, historical final resting place for Jackson Sep 2, 2009
He will join Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, W.C. Fields in mausoleum ... In the Great Mausoleum, he will join Hollywood legends of yesterday like Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, W.C. Fields and Red Skelton, as well as The Last Supper Window, a lifesize stained glass recreation of Leonardo da Vincis masterpiece, and Moses, a reproduction of Michelangelos sculpture for the tomb of Pope Julius II in Rome. (MSNBC -- News)
Jacko's New Tomb-Mates Aug 20, 2009
Other famous occupants of the burial chamber include screen legends Clark Gable, W.C. Fields, Red Skelton and Jean Harlow. Among Jacko's other notable 00003F18 neighbors are Lon Chaney Sr.; Gable's third wife, actress Carole Lombard; writer Louis L'Amour; and Seabiscuit jockey George Woolf. (Fox News)
The Ugly Truth Aug 8, 2009
The Sydney Morning Herald: national, world, business, entertainment, sport and technology news from Australia's leading newspaper. Sandra HallAugust 7, 2009. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
A challenge for celebrity-grave hunters Jul 9, 2009
Company officials wouldn't say whether Jackson's body was, or could be, tucked into one of the cemetery's locked gardens where celebrities like Humphrey Bogart, Jean Harlow and Sammy Davis Jr. are laid to rest. If Jackson is buried in Forest Lawn, that won't stop fans and grave hunters from trying to sneak in, says Karen Fogarty, a paralegal from the San Fernando Valley area in California and an occasional celebrity grave hunter. (CNN)
MJ's mother loses control Jul 8, 2009
Acting Los Angeles mayor Jan Perry said Jackson would be buried shortly before the service at Forest Lawn, one of the city's best-known cemeteries which is the final resting spot of screen legends Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable and Jean Harlow. As preparations for Tuesday's memorial continued, investigators probing the circumstances of Jackson's mysterious death are reportedly looking at the role of five doctors who prescribed drugs to the star. (iAfrica.com)
When Celebrities Die Too Young Jul 2, 2009
Jean Harlow Jean is still that Thirties blonde sex symbol, after dying of kidney failure at 26. Janis Joplin Her raspy voice is still heard on the radio, even after a heroine overdose at 27. (Suite101.com)
* [HARDCOVER: UK] Game, set and love match May 17, 2009
He briefly dated the original blonde bombshell Jean Harlow, of whom the Hollywood trade paper Variety once noted: It doesnt matter what degree of talent she possesses. nobody ever starved possessing what shes got. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
The Way We Were Mar 29, 2009
MGM, contrary to its staid reputation (gained during the late 1930s and '40s), was one of the most risque studios, mainly because it specialized in female stars (Greta Garbo, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow, Madge Evans), and actress vehicles of the day dealt mainly with sex and feminism. Warner Bros. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Warner Bros. brings film vault into digital age Mar 24, 2009
He bubbled at hearing of releases such as Beast of the City (1932) starring Walter Huston and Jean Harlow, or Rasputin and the Empress (1932), which features three Barrymore siblings, including modern Charlie's Angels actress Drew Barrymore's grandfather, John. Some of these films I've been waiting on for years, Mr. Crawford said. (Globe and Mail)
The Almanac -- weekly Feb 24, 2009
They include English poet Edmund Waller in 1606; industrialist George Pullman, inventor of the railway sleeping car, in 1831; telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell in 1847; U.S. Army Gen. Matthew Ridgway in 1895; movie star Jean Harlow in 1911; Star Trek actor James Scotty Doohan in 1920; Lee Radziwill, sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, in 1933 (age 76); former football star Herschel Walker, the 1982 Heisman Trophy winner, and Olympic gold medal heptathlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee, both in... (Yahoo News -- Auto Racing)
