Platinum Blonde
by Frank Capra
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Actor: Halliwell Hobbes, Jean Harlow, Loretta Young, Reginald Owen, Robert WilliamsDirector: Frank Capra
Brand: Sony
Cinematographer: Joseph Walker
Producer: Harry Cohn
Writer: Dorothy Howell
Writer: Douglas W. Churchill
Writer: Harry Chandlee
Writer: Jo Swerling
Writer: Robert Riskin
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Japanese (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-11-04
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of Platinum Blonde
Movie Review: Platinum Blond
Summary: 5 Stars
A very amusing tale of role reversal. A wealthy woman involved with an "average joe" who still wants the
independence to live his life without the yoke of high society's false "airs."
Summary of Platinum Blonde
A socialite heiress defeats a journalist in a competition for the attention of a frustrated playwright but when her lifestyle begins to stifle him the reporter comes to his rescue. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 11/22/2005 Starring: Jean Harlow Loretta Young Run time: 89 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Frank CapraThis Frank Capra comedy from 1931 helped define the screwball-comedy genre that became so popular with films like It Happened One Night and The Awful Truth. In this witty romp, Jean Harlow plays an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband (Robert Williams) into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the confinement of high society, though, and yearns for a creative outlet. He decides to write a play and collaborates with a fellow reporter (Loretta Young); the results are unexpectedly hilarious, especially when Young shows up at the mansion with a gaggle of boozehound reporters in tow. With snappy, ribald dialogue (allowable in those pre-Hays Code days), Capra keeps the gags flying fast and furious, taking special delight in having Williams's journalist pals rib him endlessly over his kept-man status. Platinum Blonde was a great success at the time of its release during the class-conscious Depression; for better or worse, its star Harlow was identified with the tag "platinum blonde" until her untimely death. --Jerry Renshaw
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