orig. Harlean Carpenter
born March 3, 1911, Kansas City, Mo., U.S.
died June 7, 1937, Los Angeles, Calif.
U.S. film actress.
She worked as an extra and played bit parts before her first success, in Hell's Angels (1930). With her platinum-blonde hair and flashy vulgarity, she became Warner Brothers' resident sex symbol in The Public Enemy and Platinum Blonde (1931). At MGM she showed herself to be an able actress with a flair for comedy in films such as Dinner at Eight (1933), China Seas (1935), Libeled Lady (1936), and Saratoga (1937). After surviving two divorces, the suicide of her second husband, and public scandal, she died of uremic poisoning at 26.
Jean Harlow.
Brown Brothers