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HARLOW Jean
Born Harlean Harlow Carpenter.
Date of birth : March 3, 1911,
Kansas City.
Date of death : June 7, 1937, Los Angeles (
,
).
Profession actress.
* 1932 : 1353 Club View Drive, Los Angeles
* 1937 : 512 North Palm Drive, Los Angeles
Story
Her parents were Mont Clair Carpenter (September 12, 1877, Iowa-May 1st, 1974, Missouri), dentist
(
) and Jean Poe Harlow Bello (April 9, 1891, Colorado-June 11, 1958, Los Angeles)(
,
).
They married on September 30, 1908 à Kansas City before divorcing between 1920 and 1928. Both of them remarried.
Little girl, she was called "The Baby" (
) and was raised by her maternal grand-parents.
She first married on September 21, 1927 with Charles Fremont McGrew (
). They divorced on January 29, 1931.She began to play as an extra in 1928.
In 1930
Howard Hughes (
) engaged her in "Hell's Angels", a movie in which she imposed an insidious
and poised sensuality (
).
Frank Capra became famous with the unforgettable pictures he took of her on the set of "Platinum Blonde"
(1931)(
).
A year later, she incured the anger of the censure in "Red-Headed Woman" (
).
On July 2, 1932 she married Paul Bern in Los Angeles (
-
;
,
,
,
). He was tragically shot 2 months later on September 2, 1932
(
,
).
Norma Jeane often went with Gladys Baker and Grace McKee to admire their mutual idol in "Dinner at Eight"
(1933)(
,
) or "Hold Your Man" (1933)(
).
On September 17, 1933 she married her 3rd husband Harold G. Rosson, in Arizona (
,
;
). They divorced on March 14, 1936.
Her last partner was William Powell (
,
,
).
;
).
She died on June 7, 1937, hardly aged 26, from an acute nephritis complications (
).
Her funeral took place on June 10, 1937 (
,
,
).
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