Download American Legends: The Life of Jean Harlow AudioBook Free
"I wasn't given birth to an actress. Happenings just made me one." (Jean Harlow) A whole lot of ink has been spilled within the lives of history's most influential characters, but how a lot of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to rate on the lives of America's most important women and men in the time it takes to complete a commute, while learning interesting facts long ignored or never known. If the North american Film Institute placed its top 50 display legends of the 20th century, many of the people named possessed jobs spanning several ages, but one of them monitored the feat despite living significantly less than three decades. Placed as the 22nd greatest actress of the 20th century, Jean Harlow was on the display for less than 10 years, but in that time the "blonde bombshell" became the most popular actress of the 1930s, eclipsing superstars like Joan Crawford and Norma Shearer on the way. Actually the platinum blonde accomplished that feat as a leading lady for five years before her early loss of life of renal inability at only 26 years of age. Although Harlow is kept in mind today more for her tragic destiny than for her career, she was influential well beyond the 1930s. Despite being so young, she managed to create a persona as a seductive femme fatale that could critically condition how subsequent actresses approached similar jobs. Obviously her platinum-blonde head of hair served as a design template for future blonde bombshells like Marilyn Monroe, who actually watched Harlow's videos and examined her performances to model her own early career off of the dead legend.
