HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE STAR'S ARCHIVES
From Here to Stardom
Published Dec. 21, 1929
It begins to appear likely the family of another Kansan will have to move to Hollywood and go into the managing business. Word was received today that Jean Harlow, a Kansas City, Kansas, girl who went to the camera colony a short time ago to the extra ranks, has been given the leading feminine role in “Hell’s Angels,” a picture that promises to be the most important release of next year.
A Jean Harlow Ovation
Published Aug. 14, 1930
Jean Harlow may be the villainess in “Hell’s Angels,” but she’s a heroine to the home town.
Jean Harlow is Home
Published Nov. 20, 1930
Jean Harlow, who is twice as good looking as you expect her to be, which is about four times as good looking as any girl has a right to be, arrived in Kansas City today and everybody at the union station and the Hotel Muehlebach took one look at her platinum-blond hair and said, “There ain’t no such animal!”
Jean Is a “Home Girl”
Published Dec. 8, 1931
A grandmother and granddad are about all it takes to make a “home girl” out of a vampire, after all.
Jean a Sleeping Beauty
Published Dec. 8, 1931
Prettier and more platinum than ever, Jean Harlow was a sleeping beauty when a small battery of cameras arrived at 10:30 o’clock today in the hallway of her suite at the Hotel Muehlebach.
Through Trial and Struggle to a Career and Happiness
Published Sept. 18, 1933
The marriage of Jean Harlow, the “platinum blond” of the screen, to Hal Rosson, one of the industry’s “ace” cameramen, was not a surprise to her friends in the movie world and her closest associates in Kansas City.
Invited by Movie Star: S. D. Harlow Will Take First Vacation in 37 Years
Published March 30, 1937
S. D. Harlow, grandfather of Jean Harlow, will take his first vacation in thirty-seven years to visit Holly wood, where his granddaughter is a motion picture star.
Jean Harlow Dies
Published June 7, 1937
Los Angeles, June 7 – Jean Harlow, the platinum blonde film star actress, died at 11:37 o’clock this morning at the Good Samaritan hospital. She was 26 years old.
“Cotton Top” of School Lots Lifts Jean Harlow to Fame
Published June 7, 1937
Jean Harlow, platinum blond screen star, who died in Los Angeles today, was born March 3, 1911, at 3344 Olive street in Kansas City, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Mont C. Carpenter. She was named Harlean, a contraction of her mother’s maiden name, Jean Harlow. When she entered the movies Harlean took her mother’s name and later made it her permanent name by court proceeding.
Shock to Relatives
Published June 8, 1937
Jean Harlow’s grandfather, S.D. Harlow of Kansas City, Kansas, learned of his granddaughter’s death Monday afternoon from a negro woman while the 77-year-old real estate agent was supervising repairs to a clients property.
Public Wonders About Harlow
Published Feb. 11, 1971
Letters seeking information about the late Jean Harlow have been trickling into the Barstow school office here more or less ever since her death June 7, 1937.
