Bombshell

 All in the family

Jean Harlow

What a choice!

This rom-com has Jean Harlow playing a notorious movie star, who falls in love with a rich man, who has no idea of who she is, or what she does.

Jean puts in a dazzling performance as she tries to hide her family's troubles from her lover. In the cast is also Hattie McDaniel, who played the maid in Gone with the Wind. 

Lee Tracey as her wise-cracking agent is a nuisance as the role has him trying to steal each scene

!0 Comedies with Carole Lombard

 The Queen  of Comedy

Carole Lombard

What a choice!

I have now seen 10 films with Carole Lombard in, and there isn't one I didn't enjoy, even if one of them had an over the top performance from Preston Foster, as an over-zealous tycoon trying to buy Ms. Lombard's love.

My man Godfrey

Carole Lombard 

The Thin man

Movie Nights

The premise of this Carole Lombard - William Powell comedy amuses my friend, Svitlana.

The story centres around a game played by rich people, who try to choose a down-and-out to change. Carole chooses William, without realisng he is playing his own game.

HBO Max

 Sky Digital

What a choice!

To try to boost viewers, Sky  Digital are including HBO Max into their coverage.Having seen what is on offer with HBO, there is nothing to entice to watch the channel

Two beauties of Bollywood

 Hema Malini

Reena Roy

In the Bollywood fantasy movie Baghavat, the hero played by Dharmendra, falls for the princess played by Hema Malini, it is easy to see why he did this, she is beautiful.

At the same time, he has an admirer in the ravishing Reena Roy.

It is easy to see why Ms. Malini was known as the Dreamgirl of 1970's Bollywood.

The two ladies lovelives went in opposite directions, Hema married Dharmendra in 1981, and is happily married. Reena married cricketer Mohsin Khan, and her trouble never stopped from 1983 until 1992, when after a 10-year battle she regained control of their daughter. There were several issues which made the marriage difficult, she is Hindu , he is Muslim. He wanted to take their daughter to Pakistan, but she wanted to stay in India. He was willing to keep up the playboy image of his cricket captain, friend, Imrhan Khan, and have multiple girlfriends, while Reena wished to be a wife. 

One of the big issues, to me, was he was a failing cricketer, while she was a big star in Bollywood with many admirers. During the struggles, Ms. Roy lost her svelvette figure (unsurprisingly), but she regained some of her beauty, and in later years she remains attractive.

What a Choice!

If I had to say which lady I considered the more attractive, in all honesty, I could not tell you, I consider both ladies v attractive

What a choice!

 Jean Harlow

Myrna Loy

In the movie, Wife versus Secretary, the ravishing Myrna Loy plays a wife who is concerned her husband played by Clark Gable is having an affair with his secretary, played by Jean Harlow.

Myrna Loy is recalled as the wife in The Thin Man series with Jean Harlow's husband, William Powell.

Clark Gable's wife, Carol Lombard, died in a plane crash in 1942, one theory is she flew back, instead of catching the train as she thought Clark was having an affair with Lana Turner.

Miss Lombard, and Mr. Powell appeared together in the film My man Godfrey.                     

What a choice!

 Carole Lombard

On January 16th, 1942, Carole Lombard boarded the flight from Las Vegas to Burbank, California. The reason she didn't take the sleeper train with her mother was she was worried her husband, Clark Gable was meeting Lana Turner. That night, in heavy snow the plane crashed, killing everbody onboard. Clark Gable never recovered from his loss.

Lana Turner

Lana Tuner, and Clark Gable admitted they were freinds, but neither wished to take the friendship to the next stage. Lana's career was upstaged by the murder of her husband, gangster, Johnny Stompanato.

Donna Reed

On the topic of plane crashes, actress Donna Reed spent many years wondering why she was spared from dying in a crash. On January 9th, 1945, she was taken off a flight from El Paso to Los Angeles as her seat was needed for an Army Officer.

She was walking back to the terminal, thinking about making a hotel booking when she turned to see the plane she should have been on crash into the hills.

This escape plagued Donna for years, she couldn't stop wondering why was she spared?

I think the reason she lost her seat is she was the person nearest the door, so was the first to be asked, no matter, it is still eerie.