
It Happened One Night(1934)
A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind.


“An explosion of laughter...with beautiful Jean Harlow as the female fire-cracker of filmdom!”
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.

Jean Harlow
Lola Burns

Lee Tracy
E.J. 'Space' Hanlon

Frank Morgan
Pops Burns

Franchot Tone
Gifford Middleton

Pat O'Brien
Jim Brogan

Una Merkel
Mac

Ted Healy
Junior Burns

Ivan Lebedeff
Marquis Hugo di Binelli di Pisa

Isabel Jewell
Nellie, Junior's Girlfriend

Louise Beavers
Loretta
Bombshell is a comedy, romance film released in 1933 exploring themes of newspaper, publicity, paparazzi, celebrity, hollywood, screwball comedy. Directed by Victor Fleming, it stars Jean Harlow, Lee Tracy, Frank Morgan. A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.
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