Platinum Blonde

1931
U
1h 29m

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Jean Harlow, Robert Williams, and Loretta Young in Platinum Blonde (1931)

Romantic Comedy Screwball Comedy Comedy Romance

A young woman from a very rich family impulsively marries a reporter, but each assumes the other is the one whose lifestyle must change.A young woman from a very rich family impulsively marries a reporter, but each assumes the other is the one whose lifestyle must change.A young woman from a very rich family impulsively marries a reporter, but each assumes the other is the one whose lifestyle must change.

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Awards
- 2 wins total

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Jean Harlow

Ann Schuyler

Loretta Young

Gallagher

Robert Williams

Stew Smith

Halliwell Hobbes

Butler

Reginald Owen

Grayson

Edmund Breese

Conroy - The Editor

Don Dillaway

Michael Schuyler
(as Donald Dillaway)

Walter Catlett

Bingy

Claud Allister

Dawson - The Valet
(as Claude Allister)

Louise Closser Hale

Mrs. Schuyler

Wilson Benge

Butler
(uncredited)

Vance Carroll

Reporter
(uncredited)

Eddy Chandler

Hank - A Reporter
(uncredited)

Richard Cramer

Speakeasy Proprietor
(uncredited)

Oliver Eckhardt

Reporter
(uncredited)

Bill Elliott

Ann's Beau - The Round-the-World Flyer
(uncredited)

Adolph Faylauer

Party Guest
(uncredited)

J.C. Fowler

Reporter
(uncredited)

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Trivia
In a 2008 interview, actor Christopher Plummer called Williams "...one of the most realistic comedians the screen had. He made Cary Grant look like he was overacting... To watch Robert Williams act was like seeing a comic using the Method, long before the Method became famous with Marlon [Brando] (Marlon Brando) and Monty [Clift] (Montgomery Clift)."

Goofs
When they are looking at the front page of "The Tribune Paper", in the headlines, the word "okay" is misspelled. It shows "It's okey with me."

The spelling of "OK" was not standardized for a long time. Writer Dashiell Hammett among others spelled it "okeh" and "oke",

Quotes
Dexter Grayson: Where were you yesterday?
Anne Schuyler: Oh, Stew and I went for a long ride. Dexter, is there any finishing school we could send him to?
Dexter Grayson: Yes - Sing Sing!

Connections
Edited into 365 Days, also Known as a Year (2019)

Soundtracks
Manhattan
(uncredited)
Music by Richard Rodgers
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A Delight

There is a scene with Robert Williams and Jean Harlow singing a ditty to each other. There was such natural wit and affection that their infatuation and joy in each others company was perfectly expressed. This was love, this was sensuality, without a hint of the physicality that modern movies are forced to graphicly depict. Seeing a movie like this, made in low fidelity black and white seventy years ago shows what we have lost.