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* TheCon: An unethical studio publicity man hires a whole family of actors to perform in character in order to create a fake romance for Lola Burns, an actress who has quit Hollywood. The idea is to get her to go back to work after the fake romance ends. The LoonyFan who keeps following Lola around is also a performer hired by the publicity guy
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* MassiveMultiplayerScam: An unethical studio publicity man hires a whole family of actors to perform in character in order to create a fake romance for Lola Burns, an actress who has quit Hollywood. The idea is to get her to go back to work after the fake romance ends. The LoonyFan who keeps following Lola around is also a performer hired by the publicity guy.
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* TheCon: The LoonyFan and all three Middletons are actors, working along with Space to manipulate Lola into going back to the movies.
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* MaybeEverAfter: Having gone through two boyfriends, Lola has finally clued in to Space's feelings for her. They're about to kiss at the end when Lola finds out that her LoonyFan is also an actor hired by Space. They're fighting again as the film ends.
* MaybeEverAfter: Having gone through two boyfriends, Lola has finally clued in to Space's feelings for her. They're about to kiss at the end when Lola finds out that her LoonyFan is also an actor hired by Space. They're fighting again as the film ends.
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* ThinkOfTheCensors: The Hays Code is specifically mentioned as the reason why Lola has to do retakes for ''Red Dust''. Apparently she showed too much skin before.
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* RomanAClef: A satirical portrait of the life of Creator/ClaraBow at the height of her stardom--Bow actually did leave the movies to get married and retire to the desert. However, other elements are clearly taken from the life of Harlow herself, like the large dogs at her mansion and the mooching family members.
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* TheAlcoholic: Lola's father, played by Frank Morgan (''Film/TheWizardOfOz''), is an idiot and a drunkard.
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Lola Burns (Harlow) is a glamorous Hollywood movie star--and yes, blonde bombshell--whose complicated life involves a temperamental LatinLover who has overstayed his visa, a crazy fan who won't stop stalking her, a father and brother who are mooching off of her, and studio publicity man E.J. "Space" Hanlon (Tracy), who keeps embarrassing her with the fake scandals he gins up to keep her name in the papers. Space once dated Lola and still carries a torch for her, but he doesn't let that stop the studio publicity machine. When Lola falls in love with aristocrat Gifford Middleton (Franchot Tone) and elects to retire from pictures, Space has to lure her back, both for himself and the studio.
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Lola Burns (Harlow) is a glamorous Hollywood movie star--and yes, blonde bombshell--whose complicated life involves a temperamental LatinLover who has overstayed his visa, a crazy fan who won't stop stalking her, a father and brother who are mooching off of her, and studio publicity man E.J. "Space" Hanlon (Tracy), who keeps embarrassing her with the fake scandals he gins up to keep her name in the papers. Space once dated Lola and still carries a torch for her, but he doesn't let that stop the studio studio's publicity machine. When So when Lola falls in love with aristocrat Gifford Middleton (Franchot Tone) and elects to retire from pictures, Space has to lure her back, both for himself and the studio.
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''Bombshell'' is a 1933 {{Comedy}} film directed by Creator/VictorFleming, starring Creator/JeanHarlow and Lee Tracy.
Harlow is Lola Burns, a glamorous blonde bombshell Hollywood movie star. Her complicated life involves a temperamental LatinLover who has overstayed his visa, a crazy fan that won't stop stalking her, a father and brother who are mooching off of her, and studio publicity man E.J. "Space" Hanlon (Tracy), who keeps embarrassing her with the fake scandals he gins up to keep her name in the papers. Space once dated Lola and still carries a torch for her, but he doesn't let that stop the studio publicity machine. When Lola falls in love with aristocrat Gifford Middleton (Franchot Tone) and elects to retire from pictures, Space has to lure her back, both for himself and the studio.
Harlow is Lola Burns, a glamorous blonde bombshell Hollywood movie star. Her complicated life involves a temperamental LatinLover who has overstayed his visa, a crazy fan that won't stop stalking her, a father and brother who are mooching off of her, and studio publicity man E.J. "Space" Hanlon (Tracy), who keeps embarrassing her with the fake scandals he gins up to keep her name in the papers. Space once dated Lola and still carries a torch for her, but he doesn't let that stop the studio publicity machine. When Lola falls in love with aristocrat Gifford Middleton (Franchot Tone) and elects to retire from pictures, Space has to lure her back, both for himself and the studio.
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''Bombshell'' is a 1933 {{Comedy}} American [[UsefulNotes/ThePreCodeEra pre-Code]] romantic comedy-drama film directed by Creator/VictorFleming, starring Creator/JeanHarlow and Lee Tracy.
Harlow is Lola Burns, Burns (Harlow) is a glamorous blonde bombshell Hollywood movie star. Her star--and yes, blonde bombshell--whose complicated life involves a temperamental LatinLover who has overstayed his visa, a crazy fan that who won't stop stalking her, a father and brother who are mooching off of her, and studio publicity man E.J. "Space" Hanlon (Tracy), who keeps embarrassing her with the fake scandals he gins up to keep her name in the papers. Space once dated Lola and still carries a torch for her, but he doesn't let that stop the studio publicity machine. When Lola falls in love with aristocrat Gifford Middleton (Franchot Tone) and elects to retire from pictures, Space has to lure her back, both for himself and the studio.
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* FourthDateMarriage: After one day at the desert resort, Lola and Gifford Middleton are making wedding plans. It turns out this is all Spence's doing; see MassiveMultiplayerScam below.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Apparently Lola's maid is something of an EthicalSlut.
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''Bombshell'' is a 1933 film directed by Creator/VictorFleming, starring Creator/JeanHarlow and Lee Tracy.
Harlow is Lola Burns, a glamorous blonde bombshell Hollywood movie star. Her complicated life involves a temperamental LatinLover who has overstayed his visa, a crazy fan that won't stop stalking her, a father and brother who are mooching off of her, and studio publicity man E.J. "Space" Hanlon (Tracy), who keeps embarrassing her with the fake scandals he gins up to keep her name in the papers. Space once dated Lola and still carries a torch for her, but he doesn't let that stop the studio publicity machine. When Lola falls in love with aristocrat Gifford Middleton (Franchot Tone) and elects to retire from pictures, Space has to lure her back, both for himself and the studio.
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!!This film contains the following tropes:
* TheAlcoholic: Lola's father, played by Frank Morgan (''Film/TheWizardOfOz''), is an idiot and a drunkard.
--> '''Lola''': Remember your heart, you're likely to have the [=DTs=] again.
* CelebrityParadox: Lola has to do retakes for ''Film/RedDust'', a real film which starred Creator/ClarkGable and Creator/JeanHarlow.
* DrivingADesk: In every scene where people are riding in cars.
* FourthDateMarriage: After one day at the desert resort, Lola and Gifford Middleton are making wedding plans. It turns out this is all Spence's doing; see MassiveMultiplayerScam below.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Apparently Lola's maid is something of an EthicalSlut.
--> '''Lola''': Your day off sure is brutal on your lingerie.
* GoingCommando: Lola is specifically instructed by the studio not to wear a brassiere (and Harlow the sex symbol usually didn't.)
* UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode: Referenced InUniverse as the reason why Lola has to do retakes of ''Red Dust''. (Actually this film comes from UsefulNotes/ThePreCodeEra, as Hollywood didn't bear down with the Hays Code until 1934.)
* HighClassGlass: Clara's father, Clara's boyfriend Hugo, and Gifford's father all use this to fake being sophisticated.
* HorribleHollywood: This is how Lola feels after Space's meddling and other Hollywood jackassery embarrasses her and ruins her chance of adopting a baby. But later, she defends Hollywood after the snooty Middletons are horrified to find that she's an actress.
* LoonyFan: Lola has a crazy stalker who keeps following her around, claiming that she's his wife.
* MassiveMultiplayerScam: The LoonyFan and all three Middletons are actors, working along with Space to manipulate Lola into going back to the movies.
* TheRival: Alice Cole, a more well-adjusted actress at "Monarch Pictures". Space uses the threat that Cole might get a part that was supposed to go to Lola to lure Lola back to Hollywood.
* RomanAClef: A satirical portrait of the life of Creator/ClaraBow at the height of her stardom--Bow actually did leave the movies to get married and retire to the desert. However, other elements are clearly taken from the life of Harlow herself, like the large dogs at her mansion and the mooching family members.
* TitleDrop: A bandleader at the Coconut Grove says "I see the beautiful Lola Burns, the bombshell herself."
* WorstNewsJudgmentEver: Lola's boyfriend getting arrested by Immigration makes the front page of the newspaper.
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''Bombshell'' is a 1933 film directed by Creator/VictorFleming, starring Creator/JeanHarlow and Lee Tracy.
Harlow is Lola Burns, a glamorous blonde bombshell Hollywood movie star. Her complicated life involves a temperamental LatinLover who has overstayed his visa, a crazy fan that won't stop stalking her, a father and brother who are mooching off of her, and studio publicity man E.J. "Space" Hanlon (Tracy), who keeps embarrassing her with the fake scandals he gins up to keep her name in the papers. Space once dated Lola and still carries a torch for her, but he doesn't let that stop the studio publicity machine. When Lola falls in love with aristocrat Gifford Middleton (Franchot Tone) and elects to retire from pictures, Space has to lure her back, both for himself and the studio.
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!!This film contains the following tropes:
* TheAlcoholic: Lola's father, played by Frank Morgan (''Film/TheWizardOfOz''), is an idiot and a drunkard.
--> '''Lola''': Remember your heart, you're likely to have the [=DTs=] again.
* CelebrityParadox: Lola has to do retakes for ''Film/RedDust'', a real film which starred Creator/ClarkGable and Creator/JeanHarlow.
* DrivingADesk: In every scene where people are riding in cars.
* FourthDateMarriage: After one day at the desert resort, Lola and Gifford Middleton are making wedding plans. It turns out this is all Spence's doing; see MassiveMultiplayerScam below.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Apparently Lola's maid is something of an EthicalSlut.
--> '''Lola''': Your day off sure is brutal on your lingerie.
* GoingCommando: Lola is specifically instructed by the studio not to wear a brassiere (and Harlow the sex symbol usually didn't.)
* UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode: Referenced InUniverse as the reason why Lola has to do retakes of ''Red Dust''. (Actually this film comes from UsefulNotes/ThePreCodeEra, as Hollywood didn't bear down with the Hays Code until 1934.)
* HighClassGlass: Clara's father, Clara's boyfriend Hugo, and Gifford's father all use this to fake being sophisticated.
* HorribleHollywood: This is how Lola feels after Space's meddling and other Hollywood jackassery embarrasses her and ruins her chance of adopting a baby. But later, she defends Hollywood after the snooty Middletons are horrified to find that she's an actress.
* LoonyFan: Lola has a crazy stalker who keeps following her around, claiming that she's his wife.
* MassiveMultiplayerScam: The LoonyFan and all three Middletons are actors, working along with Space to manipulate Lola into going back to the movies.
* TheRival: Alice Cole, a more well-adjusted actress at "Monarch Pictures". Space uses the threat that Cole might get a part that was supposed to go to Lola to lure Lola back to Hollywood.
* RomanAClef: A satirical portrait of the life of Creator/ClaraBow at the height of her stardom--Bow actually did leave the movies to get married and retire to the desert. However, other elements are clearly taken from the life of Harlow herself, like the large dogs at her mansion and the mooching family members.
* TitleDrop: A bandleader at the Coconut Grove says "I see the beautiful Lola Burns, the bombshell herself."
* WorstNewsJudgmentEver: Lola's boyfriend getting arrested by Immigration makes the front page of the newspaper.
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