Emanuel Levy
Cinema 24/7
Jean Harlow (born 1910) was Hollywood’s first bona fide Blonde Bombshell, but sadly she died at the prime of her career, at age 26.
It would take another two decades for Hollywood to manufacture and market the next big Blonde Bombshell, Marilyn Monroe.
In 1950s, Cleo Moore was one of several buxom blondes to achieve notability after Monroe’s breakthrough.
In the mid 1950s, Columbia considered Cleo Moore to star in a film biography of Jean Harlow, but the project did not materialize.
The others included:
Jayne Mansfield
Mamie Van Doren
Diana Dors
Sheree North
Anita Ekberg
Barbara Lang
Barbara Nichols
Joi Lansing
Carol Ohmar
Pat Sheehan
Greta Thyssen
1 Levy: Book: Blonde Bombshells–from Jean Harlow
Jean Harlow (born 1910) was Hollywood’s first bona fide Blonde Bombshell, but sadly she died at the prime of her career, at age 26.
It would take another two decades for Hollywood to manufacture and market the next big Blonde Bombshell, Marilyn Monroe.
In 1950s, Cleo Moore was one of several buxom blondes to achieve notability after Monroe’s breakthrough.
In the mid 1950s, Columbia considered Cleo Moore to star in a film biography of Jean Harlow, but the project did not materialize.
The others included:
Jayne Mansfield
Mamie Van Doren
Diana Dors
Sheree North
Anita Ekberg
Barbara Lang
Barbara Nichols
Joi Lansing
Carol Ohmar
Pat Sheehan
Greta Thyssen