[...] Don’t forget about Jean Harlow month [...]

Grant, thanks for those additional mentions. I admit, I haven’t gotten any further in the week in planning my TCM viewing than Tuesday, but I’ll watch for those.

La Cava is probably best known to most people as director of the classic screwball comedy My Man Godfrey and the comedy drama Stage Door (great comedy with a staggering cast of very talented women and a must see).

Those two classics won’t be part of the marathon, but of the 9 films they’re showing, I can vouch for four of them; Laugh And Get Rich (1931)with the great Edna Mae Oliver, Smart Woman (1931) with Mary Astor, What Every Woman Knows (1934) with Helen Hayes, a very funny movie, and She Married Her Boss (1935) with Claudette Colbert. All four are fun, very entertaining romantic comedies worth checking out.

This also reminds me that I really should get around to watching the DVD of “Hell’s Angels” that I got ages ago.

The DVD collection is made up of movies that had already been released separately, so it looks like they just ordered a double-sided repressing to make up the set.

Johnny, I hadn’t realized that was her! I know her from the first Waterloo Bridge, which is heartbreaking.

One of her movies that TCM is showing is Beast Of The City, a violent, pre code crime drama with Walter Huston. It’s her first film for MGM and it’s pretty good, even if it is more of a Huston vehicle than a Harlow showcase.

Red Headed Woman is a really fun, sexy movie. The scene where her boss slaps her is not to be missed. I also want to praise Bombshell. This isn’t just a fun variation of Harlows actuall life, but it’s also a very funny, frenetic, witty look at life as a movie star, right down to her having a stalker.

I didn’t know about that dvd collection. But I wish that, instead of China Seas (which isn’t a bad film) and Wife vs Secretary, they had included “Hold Your Man” and “Red Dust”. Red Dust, for my money, is the best movie Harlow ever made (and one of the most beautifully photographed films of the 30s). It was remade years later as “Mogambo” with Gable, Grace Kelly and Ava Gardner.

Also, there are two really great bios on harlow. One by David Stenn called Bombshell, the other by Eve Golden called “Platinum Girl”. The latter focuses more on her career (and had a better picture section), the former is more about her personal life and relationships, so they’re both good to have if difficult to find.

I think your analysis of Wife vs Secretary and Girl From Missouri is right on. Three Wise Girls is a pretty solid little drama. Not prime Harlow, but entertaining.

Great stuff!