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A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.

Director: Victor Fleming
Writer: John Lee Mahin, Jules Furthman, Caroline Francke
Production: Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Genre: comedy, drama, romance
Year: 1933
MetaScore: 81/100
ImdbRating: 7.1
BoxOffice: N/A
Released: 13 Oct 1933
Awards: N/A

54 Clips & Quotes

You can't raise a family and make five or six pictures a year - Bombshell 00:21
You can't raise a family and make five or six pictures a...
How 'bout a little libation - Bombshell 00:19
How 'bout a little libation
I see the bread line already started to form this morning - Bombshell 00:41
I see the bread line already started to form this morning
And then you know what you can do with the codfish - Bombshell 00:40
And then you know what you can do with the codfish
Don't you know that Lola Burns can't have a baby - Bombshell 00:25
Don't you know that Lola Burns can't have a baby
I can't understand why Lewis Stone gets all these parts - Bombshell 00:53
I can't understand why Lewis Stone gets all these parts
You know I like ya - Bombshell 00:47
You know I like ya
You aren't the only one that knows about Desert Springs - Bombshell 01:41
You aren't the only one that knows about Desert Springs
This is a real yarn - Bombshell 00:28
This is a real yarn
Is it true Lola Burns is gonna have a baby - Bombshell 00:28
Is it true Lola Burns is gonna have a baby
What do you see in that guy - Bombshell 00:46
What do you see in that guy
Where I kick her - Bombshell 00:21
Where I kick her
You can't pull a trick like that here - Bombshell 00:29
You can't pull a trick like that here
The girl who actually thinks while thousands cheer - Bombshell 00:38
The girl who actually thinks while thousands cheer
What's a way out of this squirrel cage - Bombshell 00:24
What's a way out of this squirrel cage
With all the dough I drag down every week - Bombshell 00:57
With all the dough I drag down every week
This is disgraceful - Bombshell 00:50
This is disgraceful
How about you and me ending this cat and dog fight - Bombshell 01:53
How about you and me ending this cat and dog fight
How's your brother - Bombshell 00:58
How's your brother
You act like I had something to do with it - Bombshell 02:00
You act like I had something to do with it
California insane chaps running about the desert and all that - Bombshell 00:23
California insane chaps running about the desert and all...
What a nightmare - Bombshell 00:25
What a nightmare
I must have seen you sculptured on a frieze - Bombshell 00:58
I must have seen you sculptured on a frieze
Gillette ever thought of me in connection with Alice in Wonderland - Bombshell 01:17
Gillette ever thought of me in connection with Alice in...
She can't get very far without being spotted - Bombshell 00:33
She can't get very far without being spotted
Play this up big and we'll be on the front page for a month - Bombshell 00:49
Play this up big and we'll be on the front page for a month
If you're really that serious - Bombshell 00:39
If you're really that serious
What's the matter - Bombshell 00:41
What's the matter
Where did you come from - Bombshell 00:45
Where did you come from
You would try to be funny about it - Bombshell 00:51
You would try to be funny about it
What are you gonna do - Bombshell 01:00
What are you gonna do
I want to wire it right away - Bombshell 01:37
I want to wire it right away
You're in the barrel - Bombshell 00:40
You're in the barrel
What's the idea in running around with that rummage sale Romeo - Bombshell 00:22
What's the idea in running around with that rummage sale...
We're all ready on Stage 7 - Bombshell 00:55
We're all ready on Stage 7
Don't scald me wit' your steam - Bombshell 00:34
Don't scald me wit' your steam
The Studio car just arrived with this new script - Bombshell 01:40
The Studio car just arrived with this new script
Who were those two dowagers in there - Bombshell 01:24
Who were those two dowagers in there
The right of all womanhood - Bombshell 01:35
The right of all womanhood
I just hate to go - Bombshell 00:44
I just hate to go
They just told me you'd come back on the lot - Bombshell 00:35
They just told me you'd come back on the lot
I'm being annoyed - Bombshell 00:15
I'm being annoyed
We'll be married - Bombshell 00:48
We'll be married
Around the world - Bombshell 01:02
Around the world
I'm from the telephone company - Bombshell 00:44
I'm from the telephone company
She wants my job - Bombshell 01:01
She wants my job
You came from one of my ribs - Bombshell 00:20
You came from one of my ribs
It isn't what you like to read - Bombshell 00:40
It isn't what you like to read
Get away from me - Bombshell 05:33
Get away from me
You hardly know me - Bombshell 00:30
You hardly know me
You don't have to keep a stiff upper lip with me - Bombshell 01:46
You don't have to keep a stiff upper lip with me
That's all I wanna know - Bombshell 01:45
That's all I wanna know
This isn't orange juice - Bombshell 00:39
This isn't orange juice
Your hair is like a field of silver daisies - Bombshell 00:27
Your hair is like a field of silver daisies

Cast

Lola Burns - Jean Harlow
E.J. 'Space' Hanlon - Lee Tracy
Pops Burns - Frank Morgan
Gifford Middleton - Franchot Tone
Jim Brogan - Pat O'Brien
Mac - Una Merkel
Junior Burns - Ted Healy
Marquis Hugo di Binelli di Pisa - Ivan Lebedeff
A Girl Friend - Isabel Jewell
Loretta - Louise Beavers
Winters - Leonard Carey
Mrs. Middleton - Mary Forbes
Mr. Middleton - C. Aubrey Smith
Alice Cole - June Brewster
Minor Role - Tom Kennedy
Singer - Etta Moten
Gus Arnheim - Coconut Grove Bandleader - Gus Arnheim
Car Salesman - Hooper Atchley
Photographer - Ed Brady
Photographer - Don Brodie
First Immigration Officer - James Burke
Primo Carnera - in the Opening Montage - Primo Carnera
Girl Getting Lola's Autograph at Table - Dorothy DeBorba
Man Claiming to Be Lola's Husband - Billy Dooley
Reporter - Ben Erway
Second Immigration Officer - Edward Gargan
Reporter - Harrison Greene
Mrs. Ward - Orphanage Representative - Ethel Griffies
Cocoanut Grove Orchestra - Gus Arnheim and His Orchestra
Mrs. Titcomb - Grace Hayle
White - Lola's Agent - Tenen Holtz
Nightclub Patron - Kenner G. Kemp
Monte - Lola's Makeup Man - Donald Kerr
Van Randolph - Hugo's Lawyer - Wilbur Mack
Reporter - Philo McCullough
Lola's Masseuse - Greta Meyer
Yokahama - Miki Morita
Studio Workman - Philip Morris
Car Salesman - Louis Natheaux
Lola's Chauffeur - William Newell
Nightclub Patron - Dennis O'Keefe
Cocoanut Grove Patron - Paul Power
Singer - Shirley Ross
Undetermined Role - Leonard Sillman
Lola's Hair Stylist - Martha Sleeper
Autograph Seeker - Minerva Urecal
Cocoanut Grove Patron - Dale Van Sickel
H.E. Gillette - Morgan Wallace
Older Orphanage Nurse - Kathrin Clare Ward
Miss Carroll from Photoplay Magazine - Ruth Warren
Frankie - Allen Wood