Jean Harlow Net Worth

Jean Harlow's Quotes

• [on Hell's Angels (1930)] When I was making a personal appearance, I'd always sneak in the back of the house to watch the zeppelin airplane attack. I never failed to get a tremendous thrill out of it. I probably saw that scene hundreds of times.
• I was not a born actress. No one knows it better than I. If I had any latent talent, I have had to work hard, listen carefully, do things over and over and then over again in order to bring it out.
• Men like me because I don't wear a brassiere. Women like me because I don't look like a girl who would steal a husband. At least not for long.
• To me, love has always meant friendship.
• No one ever expects a great lay to pay all the bills.

Interesting Facts about Jean Harlow

1. Was the godmother of Millicent Siegel, daughter of the notorious mobster Benjamin Bugsy Siegel.
2. Dated notorious New Jersey mobster Abner Zwillman (aka 'Longy"), who secured a two-picture deal for her with Harry Cohn of Columbia Pictures by loaning Cohn $500,000 in cash. He also purchased her a jeweled charm bracelet and a red Cadillac.
3. Refused the lead in King Kong (1933), as well as the lead in the Tod Browning classic Freaks (1932).
4. Was photographed nude at age 17 by Hollywood photographer Edwin Bower Hesser in Los Angeles' Griffith Park in 1928.
5. In the Hollywood satire Blonde Bombshell (1933), she is known as "the If girl"--a spoof loosely based on 1920s sex symbol and "It girl" Clara Bow.
6. Went on a salary strike from MGM in 1934, during which she wrote a novel, "Today is Tonight". The book was not published until 1965.
7. Her final film, Saratoga (1937), became the highest-grossing film of 1937 and set all-time house records, due almost entirely to her untimely death.
8. Was the idol of Marilyn Monroe, who backed out of a biographical picture on her life. After reading the script, Monroe reportedly told her agent, "I hope they don't do that to me after I'm gone." Both Harlow and Monroe co-starred in their last films with Clark Gable, Harlow in Saratoga (1937) and Monroe in The Misfits (1961).
9. The premiere of her first feature film, Hell's Angels (1930), on May 27, 1930, drew an estimated crowd of 50,000 at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard. The film also has an expensive eight-minute two-color Technicolor sequence--the only color footage of her that exists.
10. In June 1999 she was ranked #22 on the American Film Institute's "100 Years, 100 Legends" list.
11. In May 1937 she was the very first motion picture actress to grace the cover of "Life" magazine.
12. Born at 5:40pm-CST
13. Her funeral was not the average funeral. Louis B. Mayer, head of MGM, took charge and made it a Hollywood event. Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy sang his favorite song, "Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life", in the church chapel, followed by a huge banquet with an orchestra.
14. She was at a dinner party and continuously addressed Margot Asquith (wife of British prime minister H.H. Asquith) as "Margot", pronouncing the "T". Margot finally had enough and said to her, "No, Jean, the 'T' is silent, like in 'Harlow'.".
15. Had two famous superstitions: She always wore a lucky ankle chain on her left leg, which is visible in some films if you look closely, and had a lucky mirror in her dressing room. She would not leave the room without first looking in it.
16. Following her untimely death, she was interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California in the Great Mausoleum, Sanctuary of Benediction.
17. Favorite brand of cigarette: Fatima.
18. Never wore any underwear and always slept in the nude.
19. She had to stick to a strict diet to keep thin, eating mostly vegetables and salads.
20. She used to put ice on her nipples right before shooting a scene in order to appear sexier.