Bombshell
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on. Lola Burns is at the top of the pile in Hollywood. But life ain't easy, what with her father and brot…
Bombshell
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on. 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 honcho Space Hanlon cooking up endless lurid newspaper stories. Makes a girl want to give up pictures. —Jeremy Perkins {J-26} Your hair is like a field of silver daisies, a rhapsodic suitor tells Tinseltown megastar Lola Burns. I'd like to run barefoot through your hair. In her signature comedy, Jean Harlow shimmers and smolders as Lola, whose life is a dizzy whirlpool of studio expectations, adoring fans, familial leeches and most of all, a firecracker of a freewheeling press agent (Lee Tracy) who'd do handsprings through a minefield if it would keep Lola's name in the tabloids. But Lola is ready to provide a final headline herself. She's quitting the biz. Leaving. Abandoning the sham and the glam for the pitter-patter of tiny feet. Can Hollywood and a certain P.R. flack prevent it? Under the assured yet nimble direction of Victor Fleming (Red Dust), explosive laughter is in store with the comedy Bombshell. —Anonymous Lola Burns is arguably the most beautiful, famous and temperamental movie star in Hollywood. She is constantly surrounded by her entourage. Included within this group are her personal secretary, her father and her brother who want their pound of flesh from the famous Lola. It also includes a corral of beaus and wannabe beaus. But her best friend and her worst enemy is Space Hanlon, the studio publicist who is jealous of all the other men in Lola's life. Space created "Lola Burns", the "Hollywood Bombshell" as the public refers to her. Space's approach to his job seemingly is the old motto that no publicity is bad publicity. The publicity that he develops for Lola primarily leans toward the salacious. Lola, getting tired of being treated solely as a studio commodity, contemplates giving up her movie career. Her resolve in this direction is strengthened when she meets Gifford Middleton of the Boston Middletons. Space's spin machine hasn't even managed to penetrate the shell of the upper crust Middletons, who have never heard of Lola. As such, Gifford loves Lola for who she really is. Space will do whatever he needs to to protect his job, and regain his favorite client and his true love. —Huggo
Bombshell
Comedy,Drama,Mystery
Film Details
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on. 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 honcho Space Hanlon cooking up endless lurid newspaper stories.
Makes a girl want to give up pictures. —Jeremy Perkins {J-26} Your hair is like a field of silver daisies, a rhapsodic suitor tells Tinseltown megastar Lola Burns. I'd like to run barefoot through your hair.
In her signature comedy, Jean Harlow shimmers and smolders as Lola, whose life is a dizzy whirlpool of studio expectations, adoring fans, familial leeches and most of all, a firecracker of a freewheeling press agent (Lee Tracy) who'd do handsprings through a minefield if it would keep Lola's name in the tabloids. But Lola is ready to provide a final headline herself. She's quitting the biz.
Leaving. Abandoning the sham and the glam for the pitter-patter of tiny feet. Can Hollywood and a certain P.R.
flack prevent it? Under the assured yet nimble direction of Victor Fleming (Red Dust), explosive laughter is in store with the comedy Bombshell. —Anonymous Lola Burns is arguably the most beautiful, famous and temperamental movie star in Hollywood. She is constantly surrounded by her entourage.
Included within this group are her personal secretary, her father and her brother who want their pound of flesh from the famous Lola. It also includes a corral of beaus and wannabe beaus. But her best friend and her worst enemy is Space Hanlon, the studio publicist who is jealous of all the other men in Lola's life.
Space created "Lola Burns", the "Hollywood Bombshell" as the public refers to her. Space's approach to his job seemingly is the old motto that no publicity is bad publicity. The publicity that he develops for Lola primarily leans toward the salacious.
Lola, getting tired of being treated solely as a studio commodity, contemplates giving up her movie career. Her resolve in this direction is strengthened when she meets Gifford Middleton of the Boston Middletons. Space's spin machine hasn't even managed to penetrate the shell of the upper crust Middletons, who have never heard of Lola.
As such, Gifford loves Lola for who she really is. Space will do whatever he needs to to protect his job, and regain his favorite client and his true love. —Huggo.