HER LAST FILM

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20284, 28 August 1937, Page 17 (Supplement)

HER LAST FILM

JEAN HARLOW IN “SARATOGA.” “ DOUBLE ” IN SOME SCENES. (From a Correspondent.) NEW YORK, July 26. Mary Dees, “doubling” for Jean Harlow, Is given no screen credit in “Saratoga,” just shown at M«4ro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. 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 field-glasses up to her eyes. Her voice is of a lighter timbre than Jean’s, whose diction she cleverly

imitates. Strange Irony In Dialogue. When one recalls how suddenly Jean died on June 7 following a nervous breakdown, there is strange irony in some of 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 i 111 and a doctor calls, Jean’s words are: “It’s ridiculous calling you: I’m i perfectly well.” In another scene [ Jean's coloured maid warns her: | “You'll have a nervous breakdown, working so hard.” Throughout her performance in this film Jean shows unusual lassitude.