JEAN HARLOW, 8x10 PHOTO by ROMAN FREULICH,c1931,STAMPED UNIVERSALS IRON MAN, DIRECTOR: TOD BROWNING, NR MINT Start Price USD 2,500.00 Current Price USD 2,500.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Wednesday, November 12, 2008 End Time Saturday, November 22, 2008 Location Marina del Rey, CA See more about 'JEAN HARLOW, 8x10 PHOTO by ROMAN FREULICH,c1931,STAMPED' Description   JEAN HARLOWTHE IRON MAN8x10 PHOTOGRAPHby ROMAN FREULICH1931 - STAMPED     JEAN HARLOW Hollywood's original "blond bombshell" who all others  were measured against, Harlean Carpenter, who later became Jean Harlow, was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on March 3, 1911. She eloped at age 16 and ended up in Los Angeles where she found work as an extra and bit player, including Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy shorts. Her first big break came in 1930, when she landed a role in Howard Hughes' World War I epic Hell's Angels (1930), which turned out to be a smash hit. Not long after the film's debut, Hughes sold her contract to MGM for $60,000, and it was there where her career shot to unprecedented heights. Her appearance in Platinum Blonde (1931) cemented her role as America's  new sex symbol. The next year saw her paired with Clark Gable in John Ford's Red Dust (1932), the second of six films she would make with Gable.  The film was released late in 1932 and was an instant hit. She was becoming a superstar. In MGM's glittering all-star Dinner at Eight (1933) Jean was at her comedic best as the wife of a ruthless tycoon (Wallace Beery). Later that year she played the part of Lola Burns in director Victor Fleming's hit Bombshell (1933).  In 1933 Jean married cinematographer Harold Rosson, a union that would only last eight months. In 1935 she was again teamed with Gable in another rugged adventure China Seas (1935) (her remaining two pictures with Gable would be Wife vs. Secretary (1936) and Saratoga (1937)). It was her films with Gable that created her lasting legacy in the  film world. Unfortunately, during the filming of Saratoga (1937), she was hospitalized with uremic poisoning. On June 7, 1937, she died from the ailment. She was only 26. did you know that Jean Harlow...... refused the lead in King Kong (1933) as well as the lead in the Tod Browning classic Freaks (1932) was the idol of Marilyn Monroe, who backed out of a biographical film picture on her life. Both Harlow and Monroe co-starred in their last films with Clark Gable, Harlow in Saratoga (1937) and Monroe in The Misfits (1961)along with Hedy Lamarr, they were the primary inspirations for Batman creator Bob Kane's Catwoman character of her final performance in Saratoga (1937), critic Graham Greene wrote "Her technique was the gangster's technique - she toted a breast like a man totes a gun" following the end of her third marriage she met actor William Powell--they were together for two years, but Jean became ill and died before Powell proposed marriage the premiere of her first feature film, Hell's Angels (1930), on May 27, 1930, drew an estimated crowd of 50,000 at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Blvd--the film also has an expensive eight-minute two-color Technicolor sequence - the only color footage of Harlow that exists is ranked #22 on the American Film Institute's "100 Years, 100 Legends" list in June 1999  was the very first film actress to grace the cover of Life magazine in May 1937     ROMAN FREULICH 1898-1974long a fixture at Universal, Roman Freulich was one of the first studio portraitists who shot “star faces”—supernally beautiful images of women restricted to torso or head; he was particularly adept at difficult head on images minimizing nose shadowco-authored  Forty Years in Hollywood: Portraits of a Golden Age (1971)   photographat the time of The Iron Man, 1931, taken by Roman Freulich,and stamped to the back:Photo by FreulichUniversal Pictures Corp.conditionphotograph is in excellent condition, noting very subtle evidence of general handling, lightly creased upper and bottom right corners in margin, small indentation in area of subject's crook of her left arm terms of sale--> seller can cancel any bid and/or end auction at any time--> winning bidder can collect lobby card in Marina del Rey, CA, or pays USPS priority shipping with required insurance--> payment by PayPal within 3 days of invoice--> item sold as is - sales are final, understanding that......--> authenticity and condition are guaranteed  thanks for lookingplease check our other auctions by clicking the Ebay icon below              wm          product ltd would be pleased to discuss the possibilityof selling items of value on Ebay that you own and are ready to part with - please email us at prodltd@aol.comfor more information    -     thanks       - Place a Bid!