List of the best Jean Harlow movies: Libeled Lady(1936), Bombshell(1933), Hold Your Man(1933), Platinum Blonde(1931), Three Wise Girls(1932), Riffraff(1935), The Girl From Missouri(1934), Personal Property(1937), Suzy(1936), Red Headed Woman(1932), The Public Enemy(1931), Dinner at Eight(1933) ... ...
Comedy
USA
1936
98 Minutes
Gladys Benton
Jean Harlow Spencer Tracy Myrna Loy William Powell Walter Connolly Charley Grapewin Cora Witherspoon E.E. Clive Bunny Beatty Otto Yamaoka Charles Trowbridge
editor fiancée friend socialite amusing charming playful new york city ocean liner lake hotel family home love romance lawsuit deception love discovery 1930s
When a socialite sues a big paper for libel, the editor responsible calls in the help of his ignored fiancée and a former employee to frame her and make the false story seem true.
Comedy
USA
1933
95 Minutes
Jean Harlow Lee Tracy Franchot Tone Frank Morgan Una Merkel Pat O'Brien C. Aubrey Smith
movie star publicist father brother millionaire emotional amusing hollywood, calif. fame romance exploitation deception acting love transformation 1930s
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.
Romance
USA
1933
86 Minutes
Ruby Adams
Jean Harlow Clark Gable Stuart Erwin Elizabeth Patterson Blanche Frederici Dorothy Burgess Muriel Kirkland Garry Owen Barbara Barondess Paul Hurst Theresa Harris
con artist woman partner ex-girlfriend minister criminal thrilling amusing tender apartment prison reform school love crime accident blackmail infidelity responsibility love discovery
A woman is sent to a reformatory when her con artist lover flees after killing a man during a botched blackmail scheme.
Romance
USA
1931
90 Minutes
Ann Schuyler
Jean Harlow Robert Williams Loretta Young Louise Closser Hale Don Dillaway Walter Catlett
journalist socialite colleague mother father playwright amusing emotional mansion office ballroom city journalism independence wealth loyalty class conflict love transformation discovery
A young woman from a very rich family impulsively marries a reporter, but each assumes the other is the one whose lifestyle must change.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1932
67 Minutes
Cassie Barnes
Jean Harlow Mae Clarke Walter Byron Marie Prevost Andy Devine Natalie Moorhead Jameson Thomas Armand Kaliz
model friend roommate married man wife chauffeur cheeky small town new york city apartment department store love triangle divorce city vs. country affair deception great depression forbidden love adventure discovery
Cassie moves to New York and jumps from one job to another until she lands a modeling gig.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1935
89 Minutes
Hattie
Jean Harlow Spencer Tracy Una Merkel Joseph Calleia Mickey Rooney Victor Kilian J. Farrell MacDonald Roger Imhof Juanita Quigley Paul Hurst Vince Barnett
fisherman factory worker night watchman union boss sister wife melodramatic fiery bleak coast factory california prison small town house worker's rights marriage thievery pregnancy poverty
Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie. He quits his poorly paid job to concentrate on getting better working conditions as union leader. Unfortunately, the union members disagree ... See full summary »
Comedy
1934
75 Minutes
Eadie
Jean Harlow Lionel Barrymore Franchot Tone Lewis Stone Patsy Kelly Alan Mowbray Clara Blandick Russell Hopton Hale Hamilton Henry Kolker Nat Pendleton
chorus girl wealthy man millionaire son best friend married man playful spirited amusing missouri beer hall new york city stage mansion yacht gold digging father/son relationship suicide frame-up seduction
An innkeeper's daughter (Jean Harlow) runs away from home and meets a Palm Beach millionaire (Lionel Barrymore) and his son (Franchot Tone).
Comedy
1937
88 Minutes
Crystal Wetherby
Jean Harlow Robert Taylor Reginald Owen Una O'Connor Henrietta Crosman E.E. Clive Cora Witherspoon Marla Shelton Forrester Harvey Lionel Braham Barnett Parker
widow fiancé brother maid mother father intricate madcap charming london apartment marrying for money love triangle family business debt unlikely romance forbidden love discovery 1930s
A London playboy (Robert Taylor) moves in with a broke U.S. widow (Jean Harlow), as custodian of her and her possessions.
Drama
1936
99 Minutes
Suzy
Jean Harlow Franchot Tone Cary Grant Benita Hume Lewis Stone Reginald Mason Inez Courtney Greta Meyer David Clyde Elspeth Dudgeon Tyler Brooke
showgirl inventor aviator businesswoman spy engineer melodramatic emotional thrilling passionate paris london cabaret hospital front lines funeral world war i love triangle class distinctions airplane crash
Thinking a German spy has killed her new husband (Franchot Tone), a chorus girl (Jean Harlow) flees to Paris and marries a pilot (Cary Grant).
Drama
1932
79 Minutes
Lillian 'Lil', 'Red' Andrews Legendre
Jean Harlow Chester Morris Una Merkel Lewis Stone Leila Hyams Henry Stephenson May Robson Charles Boyer Harvey Clark
A gold digger (Jean Harlow) breaks up her boss's (Chester Morris) marriage and sins her way to financial success.
Crime, Drama
USA
1931
84 Minutes
Gwen Allen
James Cagney Jean Harlow Mae Clarke Edward Woods Beryl Mercer Donald Cook Joan Blondell
gangster bootlegger police officer veteran friend melodramatic brash gripping suspenseful prison chicago slum nightclub bar organized crime gangs prohibition great depression family dysfunction growing up
An Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime.
Comedy
USA
1933
113 Minutes
Marie Dressler Jean Harlow John Barrymore Wallace Beery Lionel Barrymore Lee Tracy Edmund Lowe Billie Burke Madge Evans Jean Hersholt Karen Morley
businessperson socialite husband wife actor doctor engaging melodramatic playful household new york city social standing marriage social event quest wretched excess 1930s
Affluent Millicent and Oliver Jordan throw a dinner for a handful of wealthy and/or well-born acquaintances, each of whom has much to reveal.
Romance
USA
1932
83 Minutes
Vantine
Clark Gable Jean Harlow Mary Astor Donald Crisp Gene Raymond Tully Marshall Willie Fung
foreman prostitute surveyor wife servant employee passionate engaging fiery indochina plantation jungle love triangle adultery deception rubber business prostitution forbidden love temptation transformation
The owner of a rubber plantation becomes involved with the new wife of one of his employees.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1936
88 Minutes
Clark Gable Jean Harlow Myrna Loy May Robson George Barbier James Stewart Hobart Cavanaugh Tom Dugan Gilbert Emery Marjorie Gateson Gloria Holden
publisher wife secretary mother fiancé lighthearted charming new york city office family home hotel havana jealousy misunderstanding secret plans love triangle love temptation 1930s
The wife of a publishing executive mistakenly believes that her husband's relationship with his attractive secretary is more than professional.
Crime, Drama
USA
1932
80 Minutes
Daisy Stevens, aka Mildred Beaumont
Walter Huston Jean Harlow Wallace Ford Jean Hersholt Dorothy Peterson Tully Marshall John Miljan Emmett Corrigan Warner Richmond Sandy Roth J. Carrol Naish
police chief detective mobster femme fatale wife district attorney brutal gritty wild chicago police station nightclub street organized crime police corruption sibling rivalry deception prohibition violence temptation
Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick ruthlessly goes after organized crime and is prepared to use brutal and violent methods to fight it.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1937
94 Minutes
Clark Gable Jean Harlow Lionel Barrymore Frank Morgan Walter Pidgeon Una Merkel Cliff Edwards George Zucco Hattie McDaniel Margaret Hamilton
After winning a stud farm in lieu of gambling debts, bookie Duke Bradley turns an eye to the daughter of the now deceased gambler and her millionaire fiancée.
Crime, Drama
USA
1931
80 Minutes
Anne Courtland
Wallace Beery Lewis Stone Jean Harlow Johnny Mack Brown Marjorie Rambeau Paul Hurst Clark Gable Ralph Bellamy John Miljan DeWitt Jennings Murray Kinnell
After rising bootlegger Slaughterhouse Scorpio eliminates his gangland competition, two reporters and a cabal of six businessmen work to expose him.
Comedy
1929
20 Minutes
Woman in Cab
Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy Tom Kennedy Sam Lufkin James Finlayson Jack Hill Harry Bernard Jean Harlow
Romance, Comedy, Drama
USA
1931
87 Minutes
Charles Chaplin Virginia Cherrill Harry Myers Hank Mann Al Ernest Garcia Florence Lee Henry Bergman Albert Austin John Rand James Donnelly Robert Parrish
tramp blind person millionaire grandmother amusing heartwarming charming city street boxing ring bridge love mistaken identity wealth virtue love sacrifice transformation 1920s
With the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.