Three Wise Girls *** (1932, Jean Harlow, Mae Clarke, Marie Prevost, Walter Byron) – Classic Movie Review 10,476

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Director William Beaudine’s 1932 Three Wise Girls stars Jean Harlow as country bumpkin Cassie, who heads for the big city of New York and takes a job as a model at her pal Gladys (Mae Clarke)’s company, learning to swim fast to avoid the sharks of the metropolis.

Three Wise Girls is a predictable, unsurprising Thirties melodrama, but it is nevertheless quite well told, with the ‘Platinum Blonde’ Harlow appearing quite at home with her new-found popularity (although she was hardly a major star yet).

Her story is intertwined with those of two other single girls trying to make it in New York and hook a handsome hubby. Marie Prevost plays Dot, Cassie’s plump, work-weary roommate .

Unfortunately, both Cassie and Gladys find themselves falling for married men, respectively the wealthy Jerry Dexter (Walter Byron) and Arthur Phelps (Jameson Thomas).

It is made by Columbia Pictures, the last film for which Jean Harlow was loaned out to another studio by her own studio MGM.

The screenplay by Robert Riskin and Agnes Christine Johnston (adaptation) is based on Wilson Collison’s story Blonde Baby.

Also in the cast are Andy Devine, Natalie Moorhead, Jameson Thomas, Lucy Beaumont, Kathrin Clare Ward, Robert Dudley, Marcia Harris, Walter Miller, and Armand Kaliz.

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