DOUBLED FOR JEAN HARLOW
Mary Dees, "daubling" fior Jean Harlow^ is given no screen credit in "Saratoga." This is the film on which Jean was busy when she died. In three separate sequences of 15 minutes, Mary Dees doubles the famous blonde, with Jean doing odd close-ups. The film is a good but unsensational turf yarn. When Mary Dees first appears she is a spectator at the Kentucky Derby, and hides most of her face by keeping her keld-glasses up to her eyes. Her ,voice is of a lighter timber than Jean's, whose diction she cleverly imitates. When one recalls how suddenly Jean died on June 7 following a nervous breakdown, there is strange irony in some o f her .dialogue. Her first words in the film are : ' ' Get ready for a surprise; I'm going to get married." Then when she is supposed to be ill and a doctor calls, Jean's word are: "It's ridiculous calling you: I'm perfectly well. In another sceno Jean's maid warns her: "You '11 have a nervous breakdown, working so hard." Tliroughout her performance in this film Jean shows unusual lassibndo.
Joan Pnrker and Douglas Montgomory will be starrcd in "Life Bcgins With Love." * # * Pat O'Brien, Gcoi-ge ^Brent and Gloria Dickson liead the cust of "Subrnarine Dl."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 196, 4 September 1937, Page 10
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