Jean Harlow
In the 1930s, Jean Harlow was very much the “It” girl of the moment, and she shares many similarities with Clara Bow, not least her troubled off-screen life, but their main difference is visual; whereas Bow still looks natural and sexy to modern eyes, Harlow, with her white platinum hair, heavy make-up and penciled eyebrows, looks like an attractive young woman who has been turned into a kind of commodity by her studio, MGM. To her credit, Harlow always managed to mitigate the artificiality of her studio-created looks with her frankly vulgar and likable comedy playing; she died, under still mysterious circumstances, in 1937.
