TopTenREVIEWS presents the film career and movie reviews of Jean Harlow.

Jean Harlow
Birthdate: March 3, 1911
Death date: June 7, 1937

Jean Harlow

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CAREER SPAN

Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1920s
No Reviews
3
1930s
3.7776
25
total ranking of 3.7776
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: Jean Harlow is ranked overall as 2.9726 of of 4 stars2.9726

Jean Harlow Movie Rankings

1
Jean Harlow starring in City Lights
Jean Harlow scores a combined 3.2290 out of 4 stars for City Lights3.2290
A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind girl. Her family is in financial trouble. The tramp's on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor. ...more about City Lights
2
Jean Harlow starring in China Seas
Jean Harlow scores a combined 3.0980 out of 4 stars for China Seas3.0980
Dynamic Alan Gaskell captains a ship bound from Hong Kong to Singapore. Gaskell tries to turn over a new leaf from his hard-drinking lifestyle after becoming attached to a refined high class English lady, Sybil Barclay. ...more about China Seas
3
Jean Harlow starring in Public Enemy
Jean Harlow scores a combined 3.0706 out of 4 stars for Public Enemy3.0706
Tom's bad way of life is constantly set up against his brother Mike's, who has a job during the day and goes to night school. Mike will enroll in the Marines to fight in WWI. He will come back and will constantly try to put Tom back on the right path. ...more about Public Enemy
4
Dinner at Eight (1933)
Jean Harlow scores a combined 2.9480 out of 4 stars for Dinner at Eight2.9480
Millicent Jordan is pre-occupied with the plans she is making for a high-class dinner party. ...more about Dinner at Eight
5
Libeled Lady (1936)
Jean Harlow scores a combined 2.9288 out of 4 stars for Libeled Lady2.9288
Warren Haggerty is the chief editor of the New York Evening Star. He keeps on delaying his marriage with Gladys because of problems his newspapers must face. ...more about Libeled Lady
6
Hell's Angels (1930)
Jean Harlow scores a combined 2.9163 out of 4 stars for Hell's Angels2.9163
Two brothers attending Oxford enlist with the RAF when World War I breaks out. Roy and Monte Rutledge have very different personalities. Monte is a freewheeling womanizer, even with his brother's girlfriend Helen. ...more about Hell's Angels
7
Bombshell (1933)
Jean Harlow scores a combined 2.8492 out of 4 stars for Bombshell2.8492
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. ...more about Bombshell
  • Not Available on DVD
8
Platinum Blonde (1931)
Jean Harlow scores a combined 2.7560 out of 4 stars for Platinum Blonde2.7560
Reporter Gallagher loves reporter Smith who marries Anne. He's soon born being married to a socialite and asks Gallagher to help him write a play. She arrives with a bunch of reporters and the mansion turns into a party. ...more about Platinum Blonde
9
Red Dust (1932)
Jean Harlow scores a combined 2.6255 out of 4 stars for Red Dust2.6255
Conditions are spartan on Dennis Carson's Indochina rubber plantation during a dusty dry monsoon. The latest boat upriver brings Carson an unwelcome guest: Vantine, a floozy from Saigon, hoping to evade the police by a stay upcountry. ...more about Red Dust
10
Secret Six, The (1931)
Jean Harlow scores a combined 2.6209 out of 4 stars for Secret Six2.6209
Bootlegger/cafe owner Ralph Bellamy recruits crude working man Wallace Beery to join his gang which is masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Lewis Stone. ...more about Secret Six
  • Not Available on DVD
11
Wife vs. Secretary (1936)
Jean Harlow scores a combined 2.6140 out of 4 stars for Wife vs. Secretary2.6140
Linda Stanhope isn't jealous of beautiful Whitey Wilson, secretary to her magazine publisher husband Van ... until his mother plants the seed of doubt. ...more about Wife vs. Secretary
12
Suzy (1936)
Jean Harlow scores a combined 2.5752 out of 4 stars for Suzy2.5752
American showgirl Suzy is in London in 1914. She loves Irish inventor Terry who works for an engineering firm owned by a German woman. After their marriage Terry is murdered and Suzy flees to Paris where she meets flyer Andre as war is breaking out. ...more about Suzy
  • Not Available on DVD
13
Saratoga (1937)
Jean Harlow scores a combined 2.5615 out of 4 stars for Saratoga2.5615
Carol Clayton is the daughter of a horse breeder at Saratoga. Though engaged to wealthy Hartley Madison, and disgusted by bookie Duke Bradley, her father owes Bradley a lot of money and Bradley takes a shine to her. ...more about Saratoga
  • Not Available on DVD
14
Personal Property (1937)
Jean Harlow scores a combined 2.4200 out of 4 stars for Personal Property2.4200
Robert Dabney returns to his family after trouble with the law. The sheriff gets him a job watching the house and furniture of widow Crystal Wetherby. ...more about Personal Property
  • Not Available on DVD
15
Beast of the City, The (1932)
Jean Harlow scores a combined 2.4154 out of 4 stars for Beast of the City2.4154
Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is fighting gangster Sam Belmonte. He asks his dishonest brother Ed to keep an eye on Daisy who was connected with Belmonte. ...more about Beast of the City
  • Not Available on DVD
16
Hold Your Man (1933)
Jean Harlow scores a combined 1.7351 out of 4 stars for Hold Your Man1.7351
  • Not Available on DVD
17
Bacon Grabbers (1929)
No Reviews Available
Stan & Ollie find work as debt collectors. Their first assignment is to collect a late payment on a radio set. The owner refuses to pay the debt, so Stan & Ollie decide to reclaim the set. ...more about Bacon Grabbers
18
Double Whoopee (1929)
No Reviews Available
Stanley and Oliver, in their new jobs as footman and doorman at a ritzy hotel, wreak their usual havoc on the guests, including partially undressing a swanky blonde guest and repeatedly escorting a haughty Prussian nobleman into an empty elevator shaft. ...more about Double Whoopee
19
Girl from Missouri, The (1934)
No Reviews Available
With her pal Kitty, Eadie Chapman escapes from the sleazy roadhouse run by her mother and stepfather, only to become a showgirl. ...more about Girl from Missouri
  • Not Available on DVD
20
Goldie (1931)
No Reviews Available
Sailor Spike dates girls whose names he finds in an address book. Each girl has the same tatoo, placed there by another sailor Bill. When Spike meets Bill they become friends. In Calais Spike meets Goldie. ...more about Goldie
  • Not Available on DVD
21
Hollywood on Parade (1932/II)
No Reviews Available
Short film filled with cameo appearances by many of the top film stars of the time. The best scene is at the film premiere, apparently the premiere was a costume event and many of the stars are dressed in various costumes. ...more about Hollywood on Parade
  • Not Available on DVD
22
Iron Man (1931)
No Reviews Available
Prizefighter Mason loses his opening fight so wife Rose leaves him for Hollywood. Without her around Mason trains and starts winning. Rose comes back and wants Mason to dump his manager Regan and replace him with her secret lover Lewis. ...more about Iron Man
  • Not Available on DVD
23
Liberty (1929)
No Reviews Available
Two escaped convicts (Laurel & Hardy) change clothes in the getaway car, but wind up wearing each other's pants. ...more about Liberty
24
Reckless (1935)
No Reviews Available
Wealthy Bob Harrison buys all the seats in the theatre to watch Mona Leslie's musical by himself. He loves her, her agent Ned Riley loves her. Conflict ensues. ...more about Reckless
  • Not Available on DVD
25
Red-Headed Woman (1932)
No Reviews Available
Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste and uses him to force society to pay attention to her. She has another affair with the chauffeur Albert. ...more about Red-Headed Woman
26
Riffraff (1936)
No Reviews Available
Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie. After he is kicked out of his union and fired from his job he leaves Hattie who steals money for him and goes to jail. He gets a new job, foils a plot to dynamite the ship, and promises to wait for Hattie. ...more about Riffraff
  • Not Available on DVD
27
Screen Snapshots (1932/II)
No Reviews Available
  • Not Available on DVD
28
Three Wise Girls (1932)
No Reviews Available
Cassie has come to New York and goes to work as a model where her friend Gladys works. She falls in love with wealthy young Jerry who is already married. Gladys has the same probelm with her man Phelps. ...more about Three Wise Girls
  • Not Available on DVD