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BOMBSHELL
June 17, 2019  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

 
This 1933 Hollywood comedy is a pre-Code production, which means it was written and  produced just before the newly appointed censors clamped down on movie content. Hence, there’s a lot of double entendres in this satire of Hollywood stardom – and many single entendres, too. Jean Harlow plays Lola Burns, the blonde bombshell of the title, who is weary of her parasitic relatives, surrounded by an ever-present entourage, and increasingly at odds with her show-biz agents and handlers. It’s a bit like a female, black-and-white Entourage, and Harlow is a riot throughout, playing the hot star even as, at the time, she was a hot star, just coming off the superb Dinner at Eight.
 
 
 
 
 
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