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Commemorating Jean Harlow, plus assorted reflections by Sophia D'Aurelio

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“Gossip of Society” (Kansas City Star, October 2, 1917)

Mrs. Mont Clair Carpenter and daughter, Harlean, have returned from a month’s stay at the Elms, Excelsior Springs.

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94 years ago today in Harlow History, September 5, 1932: The body of Jean Harlow’s second husband, MGM producer Paul Bern, is found inside their shared Easton Drive home. Butler John Carmichael made the grim discovery in the dressing room of the master bedroom; the situation would then be irreversibly tampered with by the Studio, who did not send for police for several hours. As a result, conspiracies and purported “final” or “complete” explanations abound. There aren’t and won’t be any. 90 years ago today in Harlow History, September 4, 1936: a “Mother Jean”-signed letter is typed and postmarked to Virginia pen pal Nellie, one of a handful of women Harlow and Co. readily and repeatedly corresponded with, which bolstered her image as a grateful and accessible woman. Though in this case, Harlow seemed to have been called out for a lapse in communication:

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