The Girl from Missouri **** (1934, Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore, Franchot Tone, Lewis Stone, Alan Mowbray, Patsy Kelly) – Classic Movie Review 7196

Anita Loos from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes helps to provide the sparkling, witty original screenplay (with John Emerson) for director Jack Conway’s entertaining Jean Harlow 1934 screwball comedy film vehicle The Girl from Missouri about Eadie Chapman, a 100 per cent pure blonde, an inn-keeper’s daughter turned Broadway chorus girl, who prefers gentlemen, as long as they are rich.

Harlow shines vibrantly, there is bright support from the men (especially the father son relationship team of Lionel Barrymore as Thomas Randall Paige and Franchot Tone as Thomas Randall Paige Jr, Lewis Stone as Frank Cousins and Alan Mowbray as Lord Douglas), and funny Patsy Kelly upstages them all as Harlow’s gold-digging pal, Kitty Lennihan.

Also in the cast are Clara Blandick, Henry Kolker, Russell Hopton, Hale Hamilton, Nat Pendleton, Carol Tevis, James Burke, Dennis O’Keefe, Brooke Benedict, Sidney Bracey, William Boyd, Charles Coleman, Lita Chevret, Fuzzy Knight, Wilbur Mack, Hank Mann, Sam McDaniel, Harry Depp, Maude Eburne, Pat Flaherty, Marion Lord, Sam Flint, Lee Phelps, Jack Rice, Addison Richards, Charles Williams, Charles Wilson, Richard Tucker, Wyndham Standing and Shirley Ross.

The Girl from Missouri (aka One Hundred Per Cent Pure) is directed by Jack Conway, runs 75 minutes, is made and released by MGM, is written by Anita Loos and John Emerson, is shot in black and white by Ray June and Harold Rosson, is produced by Bernard H Hyman and Jack Conway, is scored by William Axt and is designed by Cedric Gibbons.

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