Jean Harlow Movies

An examination of "The Public Enemy" (1931) by film historians and critics.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Martin Scorsese

Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is after gangster Sam Belmonte. He uses his own corrupt brother Ed to watch over Daisy who was associated with Belmonte.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Walter Huston

When the Great War breaks out, brothers Roy and Monte Rutledge, each attending Oxford University, enlist with the Royal Flying Corps.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ben Lyon

When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Harlow

Anne Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Harlow

Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Newton....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Wallace Beery

A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Harlow

Raymond Dabney returns to his family after trouble with the law. He convinces the sheriff to give him a job watching the house and furniture of widow...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Harlow

Dennis, owner of a rubber plantation in Cochinchina, is involved with Vantine, who left Saigon to evade the police. When his new surveyor arrives...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Clark Gable

A horse breeder's granddaughter falls in love with a gambler in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Harlow

Linda, the wife of a publishing executive, suspects that her husband Van’s relationship with his attractive secretary Whitey is more than...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Clark Gable

An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marie Dressler

Film historian Robert Youngson presents a feature-length anthology of rarely seen silent films by comedy legends Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Along...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charley Chase

Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and...

Genre: Crime

Cast: James Cagney

While changing clothes in a getaway car, escaped convicts Stan and Ollie mistakenly put on each other's pants. They spend the rest of the film trying...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Stan Laurel

Stan and Ollie wreak havoc at an upper class hotel in their jobs as footman (Hardy) and doorman (Laurel). They partially undress blonde bombshell...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Stan Laurel

Laurel and Hardy are debt collectors trying to repossess a console radio.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Stan Laurel

A French air ace discovers that his showgirl wife's first husband is still alive.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Harlow

A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire.

Genre: Music

Cast: Jean Harlow

Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Clark Gable

From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies. In this dazzling work, Andersen...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Encke King

Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bud Abbott

Ruby falls in love with small-time con man Eddie. During a botched blackmail scheme, Eddie accidentally kills the man they were setting up. Eddie...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Harlow

How did Marilyn Monroe become one of the greatest sex symbols of all time? What drove a prudish little Californian girl, who was not especially...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ian Ayres

Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste and uses him to force...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Harlow

Leaving Missouri to find a wealthy husband in New York City, Eadie Chapman becomes a chorus girl and soon entertains at the lavish home of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Harlow

Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie. After he is kicked out of his union and fired from his job he leaves Hattie who steals money for him...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jean Harlow

A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Dick Cavett

A look at the forces that shaped Pre-Code Hollywood and brought about the strict enforcement of the Hays Code in 1934.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Valerie Spencer

Show girl Jill Deverne is married to song writer Fred Deverne, and everyone is involved in the Broadway night life and endless parties. Jill is being...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Norma Talmadge

Mayme and sister Janie are salesgirls in Ginsberg's Department Store. Mayme is in love with store clerk Bill, but Janie tries to steal him from her....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Clara Bow

Actress Sharon Stone hosts this documentary about the life and career of 1930s sex symbol Jean Harlow. Included are clips from many of her films,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sharon Stone

Prizefighter Mason loses his opening fight so wife Rose leaves him for Hollywood. Without her around Mason trains and starts winning. Rose comes back...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lew Ayres

Marjorie, a song-and-dance girl in the stage show of a palatial movie theater, becomes interested in Al West, a warehouse clerk who has put together...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Charles "Buddy" Rogers

The reclusive Patricia Douglas comes out of hiding to discuss the 1937 MGM scandal, in which the powerful film studio tricked her and over 100 other...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Patricia Douglas

A reclusive millionaire who owed his fortune to his father, Howard Hughes staked his fame on many things, including his credits as a producer,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Billy Zane

From the A&E "Biography" series, a review of the birth, development and cinematic history of Betty Boop, the flapper cartoon character who has been a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Eddie Borden

Clara Bow: Discovering the 'It' Girl features scenes from 25 of her films, as well as interviews with family members and acquaintances.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Courtney Love

Her story is well-known — the lonely child who yearned for affection and approval which she finally seemed to find as Hollywood's greatest love...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Marilyn Monroe

Romantic comedy drama about three friends in New York. Cassie has come to New York and goes to work as a model where her friend Gladys works. She...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Harlow

A look back at 25 years of Columbia's series of newsreels chronicling the film industry and the lives of Hollywood stars. Clips from earlier films in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Art Baker

The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Art Acord

Sailor Spike dates girls whose names he finds in an address book. Each girl has the same tatoo, placed there by another sailor Bill. When Spike meets...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Spencer Tracy

Until 1932's Grand Hotel, never had there existed an all-star ensemble cast on film. Conceived by MGM's production genius Irving Thalberg, the film...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tom Kane

Making-of documentary about the 1933 musical, 42nd Street.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Martin Rubin

We are drowning in celebrity culture and certainly no tabloid topic has been as big as Paris Hilton. Her incarceration and subsequent release, then...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ann-Marie MacDonald

From the Classic Movie Docs library- Discovering, celebrates the lives of those who soared the highest. From Marlon Brando to Elizabeth Taylor, we...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jean Harlow

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Preston

HBO (in association with the American Film Institute) presents this 1997 anthology, narrated by Liev Schreiber, which looks at sports in cinema from...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Liev Schreiber

Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Henry Fonda

Documentary on the various mysteries in Hollywood.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lauren Bacall

A flapper unwittingly falls for the boss' son.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Colleen Moore

Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Fred Astaire

In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Paul Muni

Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Clark Gable

Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: June Allyson

Rare footage of Jean Harlow and Bela Lugosi discussing Dracula, as well as Walter Huston performing a musical number. It exists solely in fragmentary...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jean Harlow

The queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maurice Chevalier

As Hollywood biographies go, Judy Garland's story is one of the saddest success stories you'll ever hear. The sanitized studio version of her life...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Judy Garland

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Laverne Andrews

Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jane Fonda

Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Fred Astaire

In this tribute to her frequent co-star and longtime love, Katharine Hepburn hosts a behind-the-scenes look at Spencer Tracy's personal and...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Spencer Tracy

A documentary reflecting on women in film and the entertainment industry through the ages led and hosted by some of its most beloved female icons.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Laura San Giacomo

Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well, nothing. This eye-opening documentary examines...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Diane Lane

Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: James Stewart

A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and the Keystone Cops.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Stan Laurel

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charley Chase

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Vivien Oakland

Dave Finkel's family and friends take him out to a Speakeasy for a birthday celebration. Many distractions prevent him from enjoying his meal,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Will King

Adventures of a marine in China.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Richard Dix

The second version of Louis Joseph Vance's 1907 mystery melodrama The Brass Bowl. The story of a wealthy world traveler and his evil lookalike, the...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Alan Birmingham

When a woman accidentally kills her detested husband, a selfless young man takes the blame and goes to prison. Complications ensue when he is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: George O’Brien

A romance runs into difficulties because the girl has seen a great deal of the turbulence in her sister's household, and has no illusions about...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edmund Lowe

Nightclub singer Alice Carroll is found in the office of club owner Al Barrow, who is lying dead on the floor. Alice has been overheard threatening...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Madge Bellamy

Stan and Ollie join the French Foreign Legion after Ollie's sweetheart rejects him.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Stan Laurel

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edgar Kennedy

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Harlow