Platinum Blonde (1931)

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In It Happened One Night, Frank Capra created a delirious, sexy, charming and utterly perfect movie which had a wild-and-crazy idle rich girl falling for a rugged and uncouth newspaper reporter. It won the "Big Five" at the Oscars, the first film to do so, and is still a breezy and fulfilling romantic comedy today. Platinum Blonde picks up where that film ends but loses the humor, warmth and good-... read more

Capra in excellent mood. Harlow is so fresh convincing Williams to use garters -!with a tune!-and to live in the Schuyler mansion; that Loretta has few things to do till the end.

Investigative journalist Stew Smith (Robert Williams) has a reputation for being merciless in his reporting. In a break from convention, after writing a tell-all story on a wealthy family of socialites, Stew becomes interested in the daughter (Jean Harlow). The two hit it off, she being a fan of his snarky turns of phrase. But when Stew is forced to quell his wild ways for the sake of her conservative family, he buckles under the pressure and finds he has eyes for a colleague (Loretta Young).