Jean Harlow was not only gorgeous but a very natural actor, too. Good movie. Thanks.

You can see why Jean Harlowe was a star. She's amazing! And what a superb script. Puts today's writers to shame.

@stevenmaginnis1965

5 ай бұрын

Harlow is wonderful here. Go, go, Jeannie, go! 😃

@akrenwinkle

Ай бұрын

She's even better with an "e" at the end of her name!

What I won't do , just to have a moment with my mom( 4:35) On February 21, 2016 ; she passed away, 7 years ago. Feels like yesterday. Rest in peace Mami, missing and loving you always.

The glorious Harlow just melts my heart when she calls the little girl "darling".

Such a shame Jean died so young .. What a lovely actress ..

Adorable Jean in her last picture before signing with MGM . In this film the "Harlow style" comes into its own and if you saw any of her earlier films ; "Public Enemy" , "Hell's Angels" and especially "Platinum Blonde" you'll see how dramatically her acting ability improved in just 2 years. After some slow starts, THIS is finally the Harlow we all know and love. And everyone did love her, from the lowliest crew members to Louis B. Mayer himself, she treated everyone equally and with kindness. I was brought up in Hollywood and read many many books on the people that made up that "golden age of film", and never once did I come across an unkind word about Jean.

@typower9

Жыл бұрын

I love her too.

@ebonyrose4511

Жыл бұрын

I thought she signed with mgm straight after Howard Hughes sold her

@ladywisewolf3942

Жыл бұрын

@@ebonyrose4511 Howard Hughes did own her contract for a few years but didn't make that many pictures with her so she was loaned out to other studios to make films until she signed her exclusive contract with MGM.

@karenhill3970

9 ай бұрын

So very interesting! ....yes She was wonderful...my Grandmom loved her ..can remember as a teenager She exclaiming about about She really liked her..

@nbrown8464

9 ай бұрын

Who wouldn’t love Jean Harlow? Men loved her and women idolized her. Unfortunately her life was cut short due to kidney problems. God bless her sweet soul.🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼

I love watching these old films. They really give you a piece of reality of how time, customs, decorum, and even mentality were a lot simpler and even a bit slower. Even the riff-raff, lower class had manners. What a great cast ❣

@redpoint8823

Жыл бұрын

Love you! I wish to have the chance to meet people like you.

@ausendundeinenacht1

Жыл бұрын

your Even the riff-raff, lower class had manners....ummm DODGY sentiment!

@craigathonian

Жыл бұрын

@@ausendundeinenacht1 Sounds like you don't even know the meaning of the word "DODGY" ummm...get yourself a dictionary !

@steveweinstein3222

Жыл бұрын

It's a movie. Trust me, the riffraff's manners weren't so hot. The Dead End Kids were a lot closer to the reality of how they behaved.

@loljustlovinlife50

Жыл бұрын

.it's funny the movie is one long selling commercial...that's the top of the line in styles of the day..

I just love these old movies. Jean Harlow, magnificent just the whole style. The politeness, the clothes everything about it definitely wonderful

What an amazing screen presence Jean Harlow had, even when she was not the focus of a scene. She was genuinely unique.

Mae Clarke will forever be remembered as the recipient of James Cagney's grapefruit in the move Public Enemy in 1932.

@keithharvey7230

Жыл бұрын

Yes and Frankenstein.Lovely lady.

@deguilhemcorinne418

11 ай бұрын

I remember her because of her very moving and convincing role in Waterloo Bridge (1931), where she makes you cry if you have not a heart of stone.

@michaelgardner-vn6kn

11 ай бұрын

@@deguilhemcorinne418 Yes! I very much prefer the 1931 version of Waterloo Bridge. Mae Clarke and Kent Douglas's performances are outstanding. Anyone who has seen the more popular Leigh/Taylor version should seek out the original, it's better.

@stanedwards309

24 күн бұрын

I wish she was remembered more than she is. She's never a disappointment.

Well bless my soul, Andy Devine as the chauffeur.Harlow was incredible ,such a 🌟.

@ginnylorenz5265

Жыл бұрын

I love Andy Devine. Always great in everything he performs in.

This is a very good depression era film. Jean Harlow just had that special something.

Jean Harlow is a good actress too. This is good.

One of Miss Harlow's lesser known but very fine films on her way to superstar status. She is surrounded by a great supporting cast of actresses: Mae Clark, Natale Morehead and Marie Prevost. Miss Prevost was a greet beauty in the silent movies, when the talkies came in she put on a few pounds and transformed into one of the movies best wise cracking dames, I just love her voice!

The unique Jean Harlow so brave and beautiful!

Wonderful. I didn't remember seeing this before but I certainly remember a lot of the slang from this movie. Jean Harlowe was a doll. Marie Prevost adds witty sparkle in her scenes with Jean.

Harlow isn't so much an actress (though she is a fine one) as a force of Nature! Good movie, not exactly a rom-com, but a smart cautionary tale. The world may be filled with married men ripe for the picking but it's a good idea to remember one thing: they always get to go home! Also showing another great actress, Marie Prevost. Watch her delivery, the gestures, and she was one of Mack Sennett's "Bathing Beauties"! The fact that she could hold her own with Harlow - and occasionally the scene with a little help from Andy Devine - says it all.

I agree with the comment below, I just happened to find this and loving Mae Clarke it was well worth a watch. I too love these types of pre code films , what a great way to spend just over an hour on a lazy Saturday afternoon in Australia

I loved Mae Clarke in this film!! Thank-You!

Mae Clarke was in '' Frankenstien '' , 1931, and was very good in her role , convincing and vulnerable . A good actress !

"Wanna ride sister?" "No thanks, I'm just walking home from one..." Hmmmm😉

@abagthiari9666

Жыл бұрын

😂😅😆😄😃

The swell movie,jem of a classic. Love the slang of the 30s.

Harlowe's glamor was indefinably incomparable.

No one I have ever known could explain Harlowe's dominating sexuality. She simply exudes the strongest feminine attraction imaginable. I am a fan. Her innate body language may have no comparable example in Hollywood history. And all she seems to be is perfectly honest. I would have trusted her with my life. Harlowe, for a platinum blonde, was pure gold.

@samuelwashington3031

Жыл бұрын

My father was a Harlow fan, he was born in 1937. I too am a fan born in 1963.

@luciollelsa

Жыл бұрын

Plus she had great timing for comedy too, she was so adorable!

@Denbysk

Жыл бұрын

If she lived in todays world she would not have died so young, its a shame she did die so young

@eileenweeks1815

Жыл бұрын

Ufbkio

@eileenweeks1815

Жыл бұрын

😂

I love watching Jean Harlow _not_ play a vamp

Harrow’s ice blonde visage provides the perfect contrast for Powells swarthy masculinity❣️ The perfect couple❣️

Not exactly what I would consider a comedy, but I totally enjoyed the movie. I didn't even recognize Andy Devine. Awesome!!!

@MossyMozart

Жыл бұрын

@Patricia Ribaric - Before he type-cast himself, I guess. I would not have recognized him save for the credits.

@petegregory517

8 ай бұрын

Recognized the voice but took me a while to realize.

Had this movie -- released Jan. 1932 -- been made after the draconian censorship of the Production Code began July 1934, thereby burdening writers, directors, producers, performers AND the audience, I think Gladys's suicide -- successful -- would have been 86'd, blue-penciled, excised, forbidden. I half expected the ambulance, called by a frantic Jean, would suddenly appear, Gladys's stomach pumped and she survives to find true love. The open window was a tease, a good tease; IF she was so despondent, which she was, as filmed and edited, THAT was the way she was gonna 'take herself out'. Jean Harlow and an appreciation for Pre-Code and silent movies brought me here. I wasn't disappointed. In fact viewing this was a joy, a real treat -- almost as good as the ice cream combo prepared by Jean that the little girl's going to be devouring right after "The End". "Alright, darling," over-the-moon and smiling Jean says to her, softly caressing her head. Interesting how the writer and director benefited from twice-daily newspaper headlines progressing key plot points throughout the movie. With the 21st century's demise of newspapers, the same creative types today would have to come up with dialogue to do what the print headlines did. Thank you, "Retrospective - Classic Movies".

@MossyMozart

Жыл бұрын

@SC Vandy - The open window was foreshadowing.

The 1930s....Americas hangover from the 1920s.....cigarettes....bootleg liquor, and vast gaps in the ratio of rich to poor...the perfect storm....but, this is a fine film many thanks to the short-lived talents of Jean Harlow whose own real life was a classic movie in itself....go figgah!!

Dot, Marie Provost, was awesome.

@kidmohair8151

Жыл бұрын

I'm with you there!

Excellent film. A gem. Very well cast and acted. Great screenplay.

A woman like Gladys would never have been mixed up with a cad like Arthur in the first place.

@karenhill3970

Жыл бұрын

Basically good women fall in love w cads everyday .......😔

THE WONDERFUL HARLOW ⭐️🌷

I've never seen this Harlow movie. I've been to her home, her grave, now seeing a movie of hers that's escaped me

*These ladies should move to San Francisco or LA, and start over again ... together.* *My wise auntie told me, "If a man stops loving me, I stop loving him."* *Like I said ... a wise auntie !!!*

@karenhill3970

Жыл бұрын

You said it !! Wise Auntie ....my precious Granmom always said" Karen, honey protect yourself ....I't hasn't been easy ...but I've never forgotten what she said when I was a teenager🙏

Never saw this before! Thanks!

Now I finally know where the saying ‘behind the 8-ball’ comes from! …I love all the things One can learn from classic-films!! ;)

Mae Clarke was a dam good actress. I am sorry her career wasn't longer with A productions! Marie Prevost was a casuality of alcohol and gaining weight. It was a very sad ending. Jean had her beauty and talent but had a disturbing love life and a MOMAGER from hell.

Enjoyable movie, wonderful quality, thank you for posting!

How sweet! Thanks.

Who classified single girls vamping after married men & getting into depressing no win situations as comedy ? 18:40 - Okay - THAT move made me laugh!🤣

Love Riskin, and cheese with my corn. These early Columbia’s are such fun, as is Harlow-she could do innocent and red hot temptress! 😅😊

Jean....bless her.😍

Enjoyed. Tku for post.

Jameson Thomas was good at playing weasels and jerks. I remember seeing one where he turned out to be the good guy though.

Happy to see Dot landed her man.😊Harlow, 🥰 Good movie. Thanks

Very,very good movie,with a good story,good acting. Thank you,for showing it.

So nice to have a non-confrontational movie to watch!! TY:))

I like old movies...

@MossyMozart

Жыл бұрын

I_am_a freespirit - Especially Jean Harlow.

Great film.

This lovely movie reminds me of another one, with also 3 young, swell women, true friend one-another, which look for happiness

First time to see Jean! Marvellosa!

@MossyMozart

Жыл бұрын

Glen Robinson - Please, go on to watch her great films. Unfortunately, her catalog is abbreviated because of her very premature death at age 26. >_ * "Red Dust" is problematically bigoted, but Harlow's free-spirited performance saves the film. * "Dinner at Eight" is a true comedy/drama classic with a star-studded cast. * "China Seas" finds Harlow in a tug of war with Rosalind Russell for the hand of Clark Gable. * "Libeled Lady", another great ensemble cast, nominated for 'Best Picture'. * "Bombshell" could nearly be a biography of Harlow, beleaguered by her family in life. It is uncontrolled chaos, swirling around the frazzled Harlow.

Sweet movie Marie Prevost / Dot . Did a similar apartment scene in the movie Strange Marriage. Also staring Walter Byron as Jimmy. He was also a drunk in that movie as well. Two great movies right here . Any way they’re both great actors. I love Marie Prevost . She’s a tough cookie 🙏🏻💕❤️💗🥰😊

What a cute ending. Except for that poor girl who drank the poison. So sad.

@dougn2350

Жыл бұрын

She was saved. They pumped the poison out of her stomach.

good movie

THX much

Thanks for uploading this movie. The only thing is I can't figure out why I'm watching it...

I LIVE IN 24hr dress down New York City environment of the modern hi tech world BUT! i balance my lifestyle and still being a FORERUNNER OF THE GOLDEN AGE OF HOLLYWOOD CLASSY MEN DRESS ATTIRE LIFESTYLE FRENCH ANTIQUE HOME DECOR AND CLASSY DRESS CODE OF THE CLASSIC DRESS ERA OF THE 1920s and 1930S such as these movies. Jacket just to have coffee ☕️ and break in fine glass dining where all antique glasswares everyday in New York City USA where it was all perfected back in the 1920S 1930S etc

I see Tony Curtis whenever Jean is on stage. Can't help it.

@jaimeshoe841

Жыл бұрын

That's the funniest thing I've heard in a long time. I will never unsee it now. Lol

@typower9

Жыл бұрын

She had class, he didn't. No connection.

@MossyMozart

Жыл бұрын

@Henrik Carlsen - Why in the world would you do that?

This story is mediocre at best, but t's a wonderful showcase for a young Jean Harlow. Boy, was she beautiful. Talk about screen presence; no wonder she was such a big star! The scenes with her modeling show off her perfect figure. I've heard accounts that one of her best assets was her skin. She was supposed to have had a most beautiful complexion.

One of my favorite actors, Walter Byron! And with Jean Harlow, another favorite. Thank you, sooo much! And the quality is great, also!!!🤩

Andy Devine was the chauffeur.

If not being used by one of the big studios, actors would make their way to the Poverty Row outfits for work. Columbia still fit that bill in 1931, and gets a couple of good ones here in Jean Harlow and Mae Clarke. Harlow would hit it big a few months later, signing with MGM and doing "Red Dust" with Clark Gable.

From the beginning of movies they always and still do write in the quirky friend.

this is one of my favorites from the 1930's, a great find thanx!!

@samuelwashington3031

Жыл бұрын

Wife vs. Secretary is also a great film.

@scvandy3129

Жыл бұрын

@@samuelwashington3031 Close, but "Wife vs. Secretary" -- yes "also a great film" -- was saddled with being produced under the restrictive Production Code (censorship; guidelines; blue-penciling) launched by the (damn) Hays Office mid-1934. "Three Wise Girls" could be more real, raw and blunt in terms of conflicted, intimate relationships. We are the beneficiaries of its timing -- 1932.

Thank you 😊

Yep...never...never...a married man.

Apparently in the early 30's everyone carried scary little bottles in their medicine cabinet with POISON on the label.

Great film, but I wouldn't really put it in the romantic comedy genre.

*Good to see even beauties like HARLOW brush their teeth before bed !!!* 3:12 /

@scvandy3129

Жыл бұрын

"Cynthia Rogers," yes, indeed. But I cringed when at first she didn't wash her hands -- directly after manhandling her over-worked shoe(s) losing their leather sole(s).

@thankthelord4536

Жыл бұрын

Beauty? Her nose gives her a bad profile. Just average pretty . Beauty would be Ava Gardner, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Eden.

😊😊😊

💚🙏😇🙏💚

@30:25 so much for Netflix and chill😂😂😂

Her Last movie was Saratoga!

Jean & Mae were great & very believable in their roles, which went against type. It wasn’t quite clear, however, what happened to Mae’s character in the end...did she survive? Or not?

I enjoyed this movie. I thought it was cute as can be. Darling!

@scvandy3129

Жыл бұрын

"Linda Barrett," very much enjoyed it too, 'dear.'"

Enjoyed the film. However it was not a comedy as is stated in the video title.

It’s so nice to watch movies that isn’t full of the F word and violence. No woke ways

@MossyMozart

Жыл бұрын

@1951RKP - I enjoyed this film, but Hollywood would not have allowed heavy swearing. It was not from the goodness of their hearts, believe me, but from fear of damaging their reputation with the audience. (I am relieved to have been awakened to the needs of our society. Hopefully, we all will be some day.)

@kidmohair8151

Жыл бұрын

do please define what "woke" means. to you, of course. because like all catchwords, its real meaning has been lost in the culture wars that are being used to artificially split the US.

@deguilhemcorinne418

11 ай бұрын

You mean, not the Hays Code way. Just think to all these people who enjoyed this film without even having heard of (and so escaped being obsessed by) your so called w.way.

Kind of seems like a different version of How To Marry a Millionaire to me.

Andre is she okay, Ma we beau de toute beaute, meg nif ic, what he say? think he said your good

I remember 60's and 70's sitting around my nanny's kitchen table, single mom of four, putting together pens for a paycheck. Idk, every l000 a fixed price.

@eileenweeks1815

Жыл бұрын

You

That movie must have been hated by every film critic in the country when it came out. It promotes divorce, something that was not condoned by most people at the time.

@MossyMozart

Жыл бұрын

@deezynar - The quoted reviews on Wikipedia don't mention any such thing - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Wise_Girls#Reviews And looking through old newspaper archives will disabuse you of the idea that divorce was not condoned by the general public as long as there was a "good reason".

@deezynar

Жыл бұрын

@@MossyMozart I'm not a kid, I personally remember that people were afraid what a divorce would do to their reputation. Your "research" is pretty weak if you didn't run across stories of famous people who stayed married to avoid the scandal it would cause. Note that I am not saying that every American wanted to lynch divorcees. Not at all. Many didn't care one way, or the other. But enough people had strong feelings against divorce that it created tension for people who relied on the public having a positive view of them. That changed over the course of the last century as fewer people claimed to be Christians, and more Christians got divorces.

@johnnyb4187

7 ай бұрын

Pre code era. Wasn't too much off the table then with infidelity and divorce a common in the movies, even comedies.

@deezynar

7 ай бұрын

@@johnnyb4187 I already commented on the morals of the day in a reply to MossyMozart.

@34:10+ was that the beyotch from Those We Love that almost broke up that sweet couple and their son, Ricky? 😡😡😡

😅

Dot reminds me of or is the girlfriend in the movie where her friend doesn't want to tell the husband shes pregnant. Was always harping on her larger than her boyfriend about what he loved to eat in the restaurant they ran together 🤔

columbia pictures

Стилист полина вахитова в своем блоге обсуждает девушку, внешность которой довольно близка мерилин монро

The comments against Jean Harlow are cringe inducing. She is absolutely brilliant 💅

This film is no comedy!

Not a big Harlow fan, in fact, a very little one.

@Zahra-wd3md

6 ай бұрын

Me neither. We seem to be one of the few if I read all the positive comments.

It's been said that Harlow's fatal kidney failure was caused by her use of toxic hair-dyes.

1932 and people making 200 dollars a week???? This is 2024 and people are still earning 200 a week in the warehouses????????

I wish the men were handsomer

Sorry about your mom. John 5:28&29. 🌷🌷🌷

Not exactly a romantic comedy. Some depressing situations.

Unless the female has wattery blue eyes, she has not inherited platlem blond hair!??? Genitics dont lie.

@angela__angel

8 ай бұрын

Not true at all. I had natural platinum blonde hair as a child (with many photos to prove it), and my eyes are green.

Ads, ads, ads!!!

@scvandy3129

Жыл бұрын

"Von Cooper," and DAMN them, DAMN them, DAMN them !!! p.s. Really enjoyed "Three Wise Girls". If it hadn't been so good I may have quit a third of the way in after the latest intrusion by advertisers. They don't even schedule them at an opportune time like when a scene ends after a L O N G fade-to-black leading into a L O N G fade-in. Starting with the brilliant, can't-take-your-eyes-off, Jean Harlow, the entire cast is excellent -- chronologically from those portraying Jean's mother, grouchy landlady, fashion show's Frenchman . . . to the cute girl with the 50 cent piece (remember those?) asking for ice cream while Jean busies herself with the man in her life -- "Alright, darling," she says to the tyke.

@sandy3482

Жыл бұрын

get an ad remover - well worth it

@MossyMozart

Жыл бұрын

@Von Cooper - Try a different ad blocker.

Mae is better looking.

Why did the movie makers want everyone,, blonde, during the 30's?. They redicilously wrong and sad. And the movies pushed it add well.Why?.

First time I watched a movie with Jean Harlow. Never got why she was so popular, don't find her pretty, especially compared to other actresses from those days, like Vivien Leigh, Ginger Rogers etc. I guess there were different beauty standards back then. Didn't find her a real good actress either. Do like the movie and to see how it was back then.