Bombshell (1933)

Directed by

Victor Fleming

Genre

comedy drama, romantic comedy

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 36m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 58 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A famous movie star named Lola Burns wants to escape her controlling father and the public eye. She faces a series of chaotic romantic and career complications as she tries to find a normal life.

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What happens

Bombshell is a 1933 American pre-Code romantic screwball comedy film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Jean Harlow, Lee Tracy, Frank Morgan, C. Aubrey Smith, Mary Forbes and Franchot Tone. It is based on the unproduced play of the same name by Caroline Francke and Mack Crane, and was adapted for the screen by John Lee Mahin and Jules Furthman. The story satirizes the stardom years of Clara Bow, the big screen's original "It girl." Its character Lola Burns mirrors Bow, as Pops Burns does Robert Bow (her father), Mac does Daisy DeVoe (her secretary), Gifford Middleton does Rex Bell (her husband), and E. J. Hanlon does B. P. Schulberg (a producer at Paramount). Fleming, the director, was Bow's fiancée in 1926. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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