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 Lee Tracy Frank Morgan Franchot Tone Pat O’Brien Una Merkel Ted Healy Ivan Lebedeff Isabel Jewell Louise Beavers Leonard Carey Mary Forbes C. Aubrey Smith June Brewster Minerva Urecal Dorothy DeBorba Grace Hayle Martha Sleeper Gus Arnheim Hooper Atchley Ed Brady Don Brodie James Burke Primo Carnera Billy Dooley Ben Erway Edward Gargan Harrison Greene Ethel Griffies Tenen Holtz Kenner G. Kemp Donald Kerr Wilbur Mack Philo McCullough Greta Meyer Miki Morita Philip Morris Louis Natheaux William Newell Dennis O'Keefe Paul Power Shirley Ross Leonard Sillman Dale Van Sickel Morgan Wallace Kathrin Clare Ward Ruth Warren Allen Wood
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