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Release Date: 04 November, 2003 Retail Price: $14.94 OUR Price: $12.99 You SAVE: $1.95! Cast: Complete Cast (11 total) |
Platinum Blonde Reviews
The Best Actor You've Never Seen
Robert Williams doesn't even get any billing n the DVD cover or on other promotions of this film, but he IS the star of the film....and he is outstanding.
Williams could have been a major star, a very well-known actor, had he not died four days after this picture was released with a ruptured appendix. The man simply puts on an acting clinic here. I wonder if young aspiring actors are ever shown this film and told to study Williams? If is wasn't for this film, I assume nobody would ever know about this guy.
Anyway, the movie is really dated but its interesting thanks to some great dialog, mainly, once again, by Williams. Jean Harlow gets the billing but a young Loretta Young has the real beauty and charm here. Too bad her role was so minor and bland. She looked absolutely gorgeous.
The storyline is one of Hollywood's favorite themes: the average Joe beating up on the snobby rich people. Harlow's "mother" in here (Louise Closser Hale) plays that snob role perfectly.
Even though I just gave it only three stars, there are lots of laughs in this film and it was a lot better than I thought it would be. Watching Williams' acting performance is worth the price of the disc, and then some.
They can't all be gems.
Working my way thru Harlow films in no particular order, this is so far the worst. But one of them has to be, even so it's not bad, just not very good. First of all the title is a fraud. It has absolutely nothing to do with the movie. Harlow was a platinum blonde & they didn't need to lighten her up. They toned it down just a bit after this but title stuck & did pave the way for her super-star status. Loretta Young, as Gallagher, however, looks & is much better. She's cute as one of the guys, the only female reporter in the press room of a major newspaper. Only when she shows up to cover a society soiree in a backless evening gown do we see how beautiful & well put together she really is. Not one of the boys. Her co-worker, Stew, played by Robert Williams is too stupid to see that she is in love with him. He sees her merely as his good bud. He become infatuated with Anne, (Harlow) a rich girl diletante, & she with him & his working class background. They marry she immediately sets out to change him. He moves in with her & her family. He resists to no avail & soon is refered to as a kept man by his fellow reporters, a bird in a gilded cage. Eventually, he rebels. He hooks up with Gallagher, starts divorce proceedings, & together they start writing the great American play.
This is Frank Capra's first movie & kind of a prototype for the thousands of romantic, screw-ball comedies that followed, even today.
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