Cast: Jean Harlow

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Jean Harlow. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Public Enemy

1931 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast James Cagney · Jean Harlow · Edward Woods · Joan Blondell

Plot A young hoodlum rises up through the ranks of the Chicago underworld, even as a gangster's accidental death threatens to spark a bloody mob war.

7.6

4K votes

7.6

4K votes

Dinner at Eight

1933 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction George Cukor

Cast Marie Dressler · John Barrymore · Wallace Beery · Jean Harlow

Plot Millicent Jordan is pre-occupied with the plans she is making for a high-class dinner party. Her husband Oliver is in failing health, and he is also worried because someone is...

7.2

853 votes

7.2

853 votes

Libeled Lady

1936 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Jack Conway

Cast Jean Harlow · William Powell · Myrna Loy · Spencer Tracy

Plot Warren Haggerty is the chief editor of the New York Evening Star. He keeps on delaying his marriage with Gladys because of problems his newspapers must face. When it is...

7.0

468 votes

7.0

468 votes

Red Dust

1932 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Victor Fleming

Cast Clark Gable · Jean Harlow · Gene Raymond · Mary Astor

Plot Conditions are spartan on Dennis Carson's Indo-china rubber plantation during a dusty dry monsoon. The latest boat upriver brings Carson an unwelcome guest: Vantine, a floozy from Saigon, hoping to...

6.9

328 votes

6.9

328 votes

Liberty (S)

1929 · Movie · 18 min. · United States

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Tom Kennedy · Sam Lufkin

Plot Two escaped convicts (Laurel & Hardy) change clothes in the getaway car, but wind up wearing each other's pants. The rest of the film involves their trying to exchange pants,...

6.9

366 votes

6.9

366 votes

That's Entertainment, Part II

1976 · Documentary · 126 min. · United States

Direction Gene Kelly

Cast Fred Astaire · Gene Kelly · Judy Garland · Mickey Rooney

Plot 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 numbers.

6.8

165 votes

6.8

165 votes

Hell's Angels

1930 · Movie · 127 min. · United States

Direction Howard Hughes

Cast Ben Lyon · James Hall · Jean Harlow · John Darrow

Plot Two brothers attending Oxford enlist with the RAF when World War I breaks out. Roy and Monte Rutledge have very different personalities. Monte is a freewheeling womanizer, even with his...

6.6

266 votes

6.6

266 votes

Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (TV)

2008 · Documentary · 68 min. · United States

Cast John Landis · Jonathan Kuntz · Rudy Behlmer · Jerry Beck

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

6.6

111 votes

6.6

111 votes

Red-Headed Woman

1932 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Jack Conway

Cast Jean Harlow · Chester Morris · Lewis Stone · Leila Hyams

Plot 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 society to pay...

6.6

110 votes

6.6

110 votes

The Big Parade of Comedy

1964 · Documentary · 90 min. · United States

Direction Robert Youngson

Cast Clark Gable · Greta Garbo · Jean Harlow · Cary Grant

Plot A compilation of scenes from classic MGM comedies from the silent era up to 1948's "A Southern Yankee." Among the films showcased are "The Thin Man," "A Night at the...

6.5

24 votes

6.5

24 votes

Platinum Blonde

1931 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Loretta Young · Robert Williams · Jean Harlow · Don Dillaway

Plot Reporter 'Stew' Smith meets beautiful Ann Schuyler, a rich socialite, while covering the story of a scandal involving Ann's family. Ann takes a liking to the wisecracking Smith and the...

6.5

350 votes

6.5

350 votes

Bombshell

1933 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Victor Fleming

Cast Jean Harlow · Lee Tracy · Frank Morgan · Franchot Tone

Plot Lola Burns is at the top of the pile in Hollywood. But life ain't easy, what with her father and brother always hanging around for handouts, and devious studio publicity...

6.4

43 votes

6.4

43 votes

Double Whoopee (S)

1929 · Movie · 19 min. · United States

6.3

31 votes

6.3

31 votes

The Beast of the City

1932 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Charles Brabin

Cast Walter Huston · Jean Harlow · Wallace Ford · Jean Hersholt

Plot Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is fighting gangster Sam Belmonte. He asks his brother Ed to keep an eye on Daisy who was connected with Belmonte.

6.3

58 votes

6.3

58 votes

China Seas

1935 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Tay Garnett

Cast Clark Gable · Jean Harlow · Wallace Beery · Lewis Stone

Plot A soggy blend of adventure, comedy and romance on the high seas, but what a cast! Gable pilots a steamer plying the China seas, where in one tumultuous journey he...

6.3

396 votes

6.3

396 votes

The Girl from Missouri

1934 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Jack Conway · Sam Wood

Cast Jean Harlow · Lionel Barrymore · Franchot Tone · Lewis Stone

Plot With her pal Kitty, Eadie Chapman escapes from the sleazy roadhouse run by her mother and stepfather, only to become a showgirl. But her former milieu gave her a poor...

6.2

37 votes

6.2

37 votes

The Secret Six

1931 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction George W. Hill

Cast Wallace Beery · Lewis Stone · Johnny Mack Brown · Jean Harlow

Plot Bootlegger/cafe owner Ralph Bellamy recruits crude working man Wallace Beery to join his gang which is masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Lewis Stone. Beery eventually takes over Bellamy's operation,...

6.2

38 votes

6.2

38 votes

Hold Your Man

1933 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Sam Wood

Cast Jean Harlow · Clark Gable · Stuart Erwin · Dorothy Burgess

Plot Eddie Hall and his partner Slim are a pair of nickel-and-dime con men on the hustle. Nearly caught by the police, Eddie ducks into Ruby Adams's apartment and convinces her...

6.2

37 votes

6.2

37 votes

Bacon Grabbers (S)

1929 · Movie · 20 min. · United States

Direction Lewis R. Foster

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Edgar Kennedy · Jean Harlow

Plot Stan & Ollie find work as debt collectors. Their first assignment is to collect a late payment on a radio set. The owner refuses to pay the debt, so Stan...

6.1

27 votes

6.1

27 votes

Wife vs. Secretary

1936 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast Clark Gable · Jean Harlow · Myrna Loy · May Robson

Plot The wife of a publishing executive mistakenly believes that her husband's relationship with his attractive secretary is more than professional.

6.1

104 votes

6.1

104 votes