China Seas 1935  N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Tay Garnett
Cast: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Rosalind Russell, C. Aubrey Smith, Robert Benchley, Akim Tamiroff, Hattie McDaniel, Dudley Digges
Chinese riverboat Captain Al Gaskell (Clark Gable) has his hands full with pirates as well as China Doll (Jean Harlow) and Sybil (Rosalind Russell).
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 City Lights 1931  N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Charles Chaplin
Cast: Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Harry Myers, Florence Lee, Hank Mann, Jean Harlow, Al Ernest Garcia, T.S. Alexander, Henry Bergman, Eddie McAuliffe, Granville Redman, Willie Keeler, Robert Parrish, Robert Graves, Tom Dempsey
This highly entertaining film is classic Charlie Chaplin fare. The plot involves the Little Tramp's love for a blind, flower girl (Virginia Cherrill). The story involves a comedy of mistaken identities in which an eccentric millionaire (Harry Myers) only recognizes the Little Tramp when he has been drinking. After a night of drinking, the millionaire gives the Little Tramp $1,000 for the flower girl's rent. After a few misadventures involving burglars in the millionaire's home, the Little Tramp gives the flower girl the money to pay for her rent and an eye operation. The operation is performed, and, later, the Little Tramp sees her through her window and shyly smiles. She goes outside and gives him money and a flower. She recognizes him as her benefactor and all ends happily when she tells him, "I can see."
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 Dinner at Eight 1933  N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: George Cukor
Cast: Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore, Lee Tracy, Edmund Lowe, Billie Burke, Jean Hersholt, Madge Evans, Karen Morley, Louise Closser Hale, Phillips Holmes, May Robson, Grant Mitchell
Millicent Jordan (Billie Burke) arranges a dinner party that she believes will help her husband Oliver's (Lionel Barrymore) career. Among the guests are business executive Dan Packard (Wallace Beery) and his wife Kitty (Jean Harlow) who just happens to be having an affair with another guest, Dr. Wayne Talbot (Edmund Lowe). Also at the dinner party are matinee idol Larry Renault (John Barrymore), who is involved with the Jordans' daughter Paula (Madge Evans), and aging stage actress Carlotta (Marie Dressler). The personal lives of the guests at this dinner party are scrutinized, and the result is a highly entertaining, sophisticated comedy.
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The Golden Age of Comedy 1957 N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Robert Youngson
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Ben Turpin, Carole Lombard, Will Rogers, Harry Langdon, Jean Harlow, Keystone Cops, Billy Bevan, Andy Clyde, Edgar Kennedy, Charles Murray, Harry Gribbon
Producer/Director Robert Youngson presents some of the greatest moments in silent comedy. Highlights include the physical comedy of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, young starlets Jean Harlow and Carole Lombard, and the versatility of Ben Turpin. The film provides good moments in viewing pleasure.
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 Hell's Angels 1930 N/R, 127 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Howard Hughes
Cast: Ben Lyon, James Hall, Jean Harlow, John Darrow, Lucien Prival, Roy Wilson, Wyndham Standing, Pat Somerset, Thomas Carr
Howard Hughes spent heavily on this film, which paid off with some spectacular aerial footage of zeppelin warfare. The story revolves around two Oxford grads who enter the RAF during World War I. A fellow grad becomes a member of the German air wing and takes part in bombing runs to England. The storyline is weak, but the action makes up for it. This film launched Jean Harlow on her career.
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 Hold Your Man 1933 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Sam Wood
Cast: Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, Stuart Erwin, Dorothy Burgess, Elizabeth Patterson, Garry Owen, Paul Hurst, Theresa Harris, Inez Courtney, Blanche Friderici
Ruby (Jean Harlow) sticks by Eddie (Clark Gable) even through brushes with the law that will bring a jail term.
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Iron Man 1931  N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Tod Browning
Cast: Lew Ayres, Robert Armstrong, Jean Harlow, John Miljan, Edward Dillon, Mike Donlin, Morrie Cohan, Mary Doran, Ned Sparks
Boxing champion Mason (Lew Ayres) wins his fights and keeps boxing for financial gain despite problems with his wife, Rose (Jean Harlow).
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Libeled Lady 1936 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jack Conway
Cast: Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy, William Powell, Walter Connolly, Charley Grapewin, Cora Witherspoon, E.E. Clive, Charles Trowbridge, Spencer Charters, Otto Yamaoka, Bunny Beatty, George Chandler, Greta Meyer, Hal K. Dawson
After newspaper editor Warren Haggerty (Spencer Tracy) prints a story about wealthy Connie Allenbury (Myrna Loy) stealing the husband of another woman, Connie sues the paper for printing a false story. Warren is about to marry Gladys (Jean Harlow) but now postpones the wedding and hires Bill Chandler (William Powell) to marry Gladys in name only and then pursue Connie. The plan is for Gladys to sue Connie for alienation of affections and get her to drop the lawsuit against Warren. But, plans backfire when true love enters the picture. Remade in 1946 as "Easy to Wed."
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Platinum Blonde 1931 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Frank Capra
Cast: Loretta Young, Robert Williams, Jean Harlow, Louise Closser Hale, Donald Dilloway, Reginald Owen, Walter Catlett, Edmund Breese, Halliwell Hobbes, Claud Allister
When a newsman, Stew Smith (Robert Williams), marries the very wealthy Ann Schuyler (Jean Harlow), he finds that society life is not always to his liking and seeks solace from a female reporter, Gallagher (Loretta Young).
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 The Public Enemy 1931  N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
Director: William A. Wellman
Cast: James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods, Joan Blondell, Donald Cook, Mae Clarke, Beryl Mercer, Leslie Fenton, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Murray Kinnell, Clark "Buddy" Burroughs, Frankie Darro, Frank Coghlan Jr., Tyrell Davis
This gangster film was the vehicle that catapulted James Cagney to the top as a portrayer of tough guys. Tom Powers (Cagney) rises from the slums of Chicago to become a vicious racketeer only to find that the fall from power is inevitable.
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Reckless 1935 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Victor Fleming
Cast: Jean Harlow, William Powell, Franchot Tone, May Robson, Ted Healy, Nat Pendleton, Rosalind Russell, Mickey Rooney, Henry Stephenson, Leon Ames
This musical extravaganza features Jean Harlow as a Broadway singer who finds that gaining acceptance in her playboy husband's (Franchot Tone) home is not an easy thing.
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Riffraff 1935 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: J. Walter Ruben
Cast: Jean Harlow, Spencer Tracy, Una Merkel, Joseph Calleia, Mickey Rooney, Victor Kilian, J. Farrell MacDonald, Roger Imhof, Juanita Quigley, Paul Hurst
Union leader Dutch (Spencer Tracy) fights for the rights of tuna fishermen but has problems settling disputes with cannery worker Hattie (Jean Harlow).
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 Saratoga 1937 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jack Conway
Cast: Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, Lionel Barrymore, Frank Morgan, Walter Pidgeon, Una Merkel, Cliff Edwards, Hattie McDaniel, George Zucco, Jonathan Hale
The racetrack at Saratoga Springs, New York is the setting for this comedy about sly gambler Duke Bradley (Clark Gable) falling in love with the beautiful Carol Clayton (Jean Harlow) whose grandfather (Lionel Barrymore) is a horse breeder. Harlow died during filming at the age of 26.
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The Secret Six 1931 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George W. Hill
Cast: Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Johnny Mack Brown, Jean Harlow, Marjorie Rambeau, Clark Gable, Ralph Bellamy, John Miljan, DeWitt Jennings, Frank McGlynn Sr., Paul Hurst, Louis Natheaux
When bootleggers threaten to undermine Chicago's civil order, the police chief creates a vigilante group of six to go up against the gangsters.
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Suzy 1936  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George Fitzmaurice
Cast: Jean Harlow, Franchot Tone, Cary Grant, Lewis Stone, Benita Hume, Reginald Mason, Inez Courtney, Una O'Connor, Theodore von Eltz, Dennis Morgan
Suzy is a dancer who becomes involved in German intrigue and falls in love with Andre (Cary Grant), a World War I flying ace.
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This Thing Called Love 1929 N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Paul L. Stein
Cast: Edmund Lowe, Constance Bennett, Roscoe Karns, Zasu Pitts, Carmelita Geraghty, John Roche, Stuart Erwin, Ruth Taylor, Wilson Benge, Jean Harlow
Robert Collings (Edmund Lowe) returns home after making a fortune in Peru with the intent of buying a house and finding a wife. But when he goes to his real estate agent's house for dinner and sees the bickering, he decides that marriage is out but still would like to share his house with someone. He meets Ann (Constance Bennett), she moves in, and fulfills the duties of a wife in most respects–except they can each date others. Of course they fall in love. Jean Harlow makes an early film appearance in a bit part.
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Wife vs. Secretary 1936 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Clarence Brown
Cast: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy, May Robson, James Stewart, Tom Dugan, George Barbier, Hobart Cavanaugh
Linda (Myrna Loy) becomes suspicious of an affair between her publisher husband, Van Sanford (Clark Gable), and his beautiful secretary, Whitey (Jean Harlow), when Van and Whitey fly off to Cuba on business.
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| 1. China Seas (1935)
2. City Lights (1931)
3. Dinner at Eight (1933)
4. The Golden Age of Comedy (1957)
5. Hell's Angels (1930)
6. Hold Your Man (1933)
7. Iron Man (1931)
8. Libeled Lady (1936)
9. Platinum Blonde (1931)
10. The Public Enemy (1931)
11. Reckless (1935)
12. Red Dust (1932)
13. Riffraff (1935)
14. Saratoga (1937)
15. The Secret Six (1931)
16. Suzy (1936)
17. This Thing Called Love (1929)
18. Wife vs. Secretary (1936)
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