Happy Birthday Jean Harlow!

http://www.jeanharlow.com/

Although she's always described as the first Blonde Bombshell and a Screen Siren, I've always thought she was so much more. Here was the actress who could stand up to Clark Gable in film after film, giving as good as she got. And for all the sexual bravura, there's a tenderness and vulnerability in each of her characters that most modern actresses can't begin to achieve. Reading the various biographies on her, one gets the sense that that was a real part of her. A tragic, brilliant performer. Essential.