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Her seemingly frank approach to her sexuality, using it like a second skin, made her performances always more suggestible than the Production Code allowed her scripts to be. But, again like Lombard, she also had the air of being as good a pal to the leading man as a love interest.
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After a couple of years of scenery-dressing roles as shopgirls and gangster molls at MGM, she played the leading roles in PLATINUM BLONDE and RED-HEADED WOMAN - yes, they loved that hair - and suddenly her career went stratospheric as Clark Gable's leading lady in RED DUST. Their easy on-screen charisma led to a further four films together. Tragically it was during the filming of their last film together that she collapsed at the studio and within 8 days, was dead from kidney failure at the age of only 26.
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C'mon whoever owns the MGM catalogue - let's be having RED DUST, BOMBSHELL, CHINA SEAS, LIBELLED LADY and DINNER AT EIGHT.
The latter featured one of the best put-downs in film history:
Harlow as Kitty Packard: I was reading a book the other day.
Marie Dressler as Carlotta Vance: *double take* Reading a book?
Kitty: Yes. It's all about civilization or something. A nutty kind of a book. Do you know that the guy says that machinery is going to take the place of every profession?
Carlotta: Oh, my dear, that's something you need never worry about.
Marie Dressler as Carlotta Vance: *double take* Reading a book?
Kitty: Yes. It's all about civilization or something. A nutty kind of a book. Do you know that the guy says that machinery is going to take the place of every profession?
Carlotta: Oh, my dear, that's something you need never worry about.
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