Paramount Pictures
Directed by Gordon Douglas
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Olive Films)
Carroll Baker plays the iconic 1930s Hollywood star in this entertaining if trashy biopic. Harlow's early days as a bit player in old Hollywood are convincingly recreated on backstage and studio sets. Red Buttons is the talent agent who works tirelessly to get her first big break. At the top of the world and living in luxury she has everything but love, and seeks to find a husband. She falls for a studio executive and not only does her personal life disintegrate, so does the film. The last act is a tepid, melodramatic, cliched account of a Hollywood actress spiraling out of control in a world of alcohol and sex. Baker is unable to sustain the momentum, and credibility, of all that preceded in the movie, her emotional breakdown simply unconvincing.
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