In the 1930s, There was a blonde superstar in Hollywood, Jane Harlow, who was beautiful, charming, and wild, which turned thousands of movie fans upside down.
Before her, Hollywood was the domain of brunettes, but the appearance of Jane Harlow broke the inherent aesthetic, and people found that a blonde hair could be so charming...
Unfortunately, Jane Harlow's splendor was extremely short-lived, and at the age of 26, she died.
Jane Harlow was born on March 3, 1911 in Kansas City, Missouri, as Harleen Harupent.
Her father is a dentist, her mother is rich second generation, and she is the only daughter in the family.
Seemingly beautiful birth, should be carefree, pampered, but her childhood is not happy, her parents are arranged marriages, feelings are not harmonious, there are quarrels in the family.
Jane was weak and immune from childhood, contracted meningitis and scarlet fever at the age of 5, and since then, she has rarely played outdoors with her friends, and can only stay in the house to read, fortunately, the story in the book opened another window for her, stimulating her endless imagination and desire to perform.
At the age of 11, her parents' marriage was broken, and her mother took Jane to her grandfather and refused to let Jane meet her father.
In order to make up for the emotional emptiness, the mother loves Jane and pins her dream of becoming an actor on her daughter.
However, even if her mother is obedient to Zhenbaibai, she cannot make up for her regret of losing her father, and the lack of father's love is a lingering pain in her life.
Life in my grandfather's home was also fraught with unhappiness, and my grandfather was a domineering and conservative Christian scientologist, and then my mother remarried with Jane and moved to Chicago.
Wandering and wandering is Jane's entire childhood, and she has gradually grown into a beautiful and rebellious big girl.
Jane's beauty is bold and dazzling, her skin is snowy, her figure is exquisite, and she walks with grace, "Even if she wears a school uniform, it is also full of charm, and no one in the school can wear a sailor-style blouse like her." ”
At the age of sixteen, after a big fight with her stepfather, Jane ran away from home and hurriedly married her first husband, Charles McGrew.
But it was a young impulsive marriage without the blessings of their families, and the two soon parted ways.
After the divorce, 19-year-old Jane entered Hollywood as an extra, starring in Howard Hughes's "Hell's Angels."
"Jane" is her stage name, but also her mother's name, and she fulfills her mother's dream in this way.
I have to say that Zhen, who is as beautiful as a star, is born to be a person who "God appreciates food and eats".
Due to the long shooting time of "Hell's Angel", there were financial problems in the later stage, and the director was not satisfied with the original heroine at that time, and did not have money to hire a big star, so he decided to boldly use the unknown newcomer Jane to be the heroine.
In the film, Jane plays a beautiful woman with a wandering skeleton and revealing clothes, who is eye-catching.
Sure enough, "Hell's Angel" became a sensation in the film world, Jane became a hit, her white blond curly hair also became a sexy symbol, everyone rushed to imitate, and fans even formed a "platinum" club.
In fact, Jane's native hair color is reddish-brown, and after she became famous, she had to dye her hair almost once a week to maintain her "blonde" personality.
Such a high-frequency hair color, although she achieved a short and extreme beauty, but also seriously damaged her hair and health, so that she later had to wear a wig.
After becoming popular, Jane successfully entered MGM and soon welcomed another of her blockbuster works, "Red Dust", with the dashing clark Gable.
Along with the cause, there is also love.
MGM President Paul Bourne, 22 years older than Jane and mature and multi-gold, launched a passionate pursuit of her.
The two dated, engaged, and married, and Jane thought she had met true love.
However, on the first night of the wedding, Jane was hit in the head.
Paul, who seems to be a gentleman and elegant, is actually a sexual incompetence and domestic violence maniac, and he marries Jane in the hope that Jane can cure him. When his hopes were dashed, he punched and kicked her.
Two months later, Paul committed suicide due to emotional and mental problems.
The marriage began with great fanfare and ended absurdly. For a time, rumors spread that Jane became a bad woman who "murdered her husband".
Three days later, the body of Bourne's lover was found, the police convicted him of an altercation with her lover, and Jane managed to clear her grievances.
As a capitalist, MGM Company will naturally not let go of this opportunity to eat people's blood and make a lot of money.
They used Jane's tragedy to portray her as a victim, and even re-shot part of "Red Dust", specifically raising the chest line of Jane's skirt to prove her status as a good family woman.
Two consecutive failed marriages dealt Jane a huge blow, and Bourne left her with huge debts after her death, and Jane's life was out of control.
She desperately longs to be loved, tries to make up for the emptiness in her heart by finding a lover, and desperately wants to have a child to enjoy the real family life.
In 1933, Jane proposed to photographer Harold Rosen.
The third husband is still an older man 16 years older than her, and she goes around and searches, always seeking to make up for the lack of paternal love in her childhood.
Unfortunately, she failed again.
The marriage lasted for two years, and the couple broke up in a quarrel all day.
At this time, Jane was only 24 years old, but she was hurt by her childhood and marriage, and despite her fame and fortune, she became more and more indulgent because she did not feel happy, and used alcohol to numb herself all day.
Congenital infirmity, busy work, inner pain, long-term alcoholism, and frequent use of hair dyes, Jane's body is weakening.
So much so that when love came again, she was powerless to grasp it.
At that time, she fell deeply in love with william Powell, a 19-year-old actor, and became engaged.
Just as she was about to start a new life, she developed symptoms such as headaches, fatigue, nausea and abdominal pain, and fainted on the set of the movie "Saratoga".
A week later, Jane, 26, died in hospital due to ineffective rescue, caused by complications of cerebral edema and kidney failure.
Jane's death was caught off guard, many people could not accept it, and her fiancé Powell was even more grief-stricken, he spent $25,000 to deal with Jane's aftermath, and built another burial chamber next to Jane's tomb, hoping that he could be buried with Jane after he died...
In honor of the star, Hollywood held a grand funeral for her, MGM Pictures closed for a day, and employees of other studios also observed a minute of collective silence.
This beautiful girl, in the afterlife for 26 years, her life is gorgeous but short, sighing fireworks are easy to cold, red face and thin life.
After Jane Harlow ended her saga, Marilyn Monroe inherited her sensuality by emulating her idol with blonde hair and black moles around her mouth.
In 1997, Jane Harlow was named the 22nd "Greatest Actress of a Hundred Years".