Platinum Blonde

Platinum Blonde

Director: Frank Capra Cast: Robert Williams
Robert Williams
, Jean Harlow
Jean Harlow
, Loretta Young
Loretta Young
, Louise Closser Hale
Louise Closser Hale
Frank Capra
Platinum Blonde

Platinum Blonde

Director: Frank Capra Cast: Robert Williams
Robert Williams
, Jean Harlow
Jean Harlow
, Loretta Young
Loretta Young
, Louise Closser Hale
Louise Closser Hale
Frank Capra

DVD (Remastered / B&W)

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Overview

Jean Harlow may have been under contract to MGM, but it was at lowly Columbia Pictures that she played the title role in the aptly titled Platinum Blonde. Director Frank Capra always claimed that he and screenwriter Robert Riskin "stole" the plot from The Front Page, but beyond their mutual "newspaper" backgrounds there is no real resemblance between the two films. Robert Williams, a comic actor who died in 1932, plays a wisecracking, easily distracted reporter who manages to insult wealthy socialite Harlow (playing an uncharacteristically unsympathetic character). As retaliation, the girl inveigles Williams into marrying her, which not only shocks his news-hound buddies but sends his erstwhile sweetheart, sob sister Loretta Young, into an emotional tailspin -- though she won't let him know that. Williams tries to remain his old down-to-earth self, but soon his head has been turned 180 degrees by Harlow and her society chums, whereupon he gives up journalism to become an artsy-fartsy playwright. Finally brought to his senses, Williams gives Harlow the ozone and returns to his old job -- and to Young, who has never stopped loving the big lug. Many of the elements prevalent in Platinum Blonde were echoed in Capra's later films, notably the hero's preoccupation with such trivial pursuit as a pocket-sized puzzle and his tendency to settle arguments with stuffed shirts by punching them out.

Product Details

Release Date: 11/04/2014
UPC: 0043396452800
Original Release: 1931
Rating: NR
Source: SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMT
Region Code: 1
Presentation: [B&W]
Sound: [Dolby Digital]
Language: English
Time: 1:29:00
Sales rank: 36,157

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Robert Williams Actor
Jean Harlow Actor
Loretta Young Actor
Louise Closser Hale Actor
Donald Dillaway Michael Schuyler,Actor
Reginald Owen Dexter Grayson
Walter Catlett Bing Baker
Edmund Breese Conroy, the Editor
Halliwell Hobbes Smythe, the Butler
Claud Allister Dawson, the Violinist
Bill Elliott Dinner Guest
Harry Semels Waiter
Olaf Hytten Radcliffe
Tom London Reporter
Hal Price Reporter
Eddy Chandler Reporter
Charles Jordan Reporter
Dick Cramer Speakeasy Proprietor
Wilson Benge Butler
Dick Pritchard Actor

Technical Credits
Frank Capra Director
Robert Riskin Screenwriter
Jo Swerling Screenwriter
Harry Cohn Producer
Harry Chandlee Screenwriter
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