Although at first Jean was not interested in making films, she received her first role in Why is a Plumber? She and McGrew divorced after two years, but her big career break was about to occur.
This victory was followed by another hit, Platinum Blonde, and several films with Clark Gable. Later that year she starred in Bombshell , a Hollywood parody based loosely on her real-life experiences with her controlling mother and greedy stepfather. Also in , Jean married cinematographer Harold Rosson in a union that would only last eight months. Following the end of her marriage, Jean found the love of her life in actor William Powell.
While filming Saratoga in , Jean was hospitalized with uremic poisoning and kidney failure, a result of the scarlet fever she had suffered during childhood. In the days before dialysis and kidney transplants, nothing could be done and Jean died on June 7, Born sometime around , Seattle Seathl was a chief of the Duwamish and Suquamish tribes who lived around the Pacific Coast bay that is today called On June 7, , a massive earthquake devastates the town of Port Royal in Jamaica, killing thousands.
The strong tremors, soil liquefaction and a tsunami brought on by the earthquake combined to destroy the entire town. Port Royal was built on a small island off the coast of Live TV. This Day In History. History Vault. Black History. World War II. Great Britain. Sign Up. Native American History. Art, Literature, and Film History. American Revolution. Dory DeAngelo. Jean Harlow, Courtesy of the Missouri Valley Special Collections. Secondary Sources:. Show Me Missouri Women.
Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion. Jean Harlow's Life Story.
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