Bombshell (film)

Bombshell is a 1933 American PreCode romantic comedydrama film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Jean Harlow, Lee Tracy, Frank Morgan, C. Aubrey Smith, Mary Forbes and Franchot Tone. The film is based on the unproduced play of the same name by Caroline Francke and Mack Crane, and was adapted for the screen by John Lee Mahin and Jules Furthman.

Burns decides she cant stand any more of such a life, and flees. Far from the movie fluff, she meets wealthy and romantic Gifford Middleton, who hates the movies and therefore has never heard about Lola Burns and her bad press. They soon fall in love and Gifford proposes marriage. Burns is to meet her fiancs parents, but everything collapses when Hanlon together with Burns family finds her, and tells the Middletons the truth. Burns feels hurt by the rude way Gifford and his parents dump her, and accepts Hanlons suggestion to return to Hollywood with no regrets. Little does she know that the three Middletons were all actors hired by Hanlon himself.Bombshell is a precode screwball comedy. The story satirizes the stardom years of Clara Bow Lola Burns Clara Bow, E.J. Hanlon B.P. Schulberg, Pops Burns Robert Bow, Mac Daisy DeVoe, Gifford Middleton Rex Bell. Victor Fleming was Bows fiancee in 1926. ........

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