Reckless (1935)

6.7	Rating (10 ratings)
6.6	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Victor Fleming

Starring (View all)

Jean Harlow
Mona Leslie

William Powell
Ned Riley

Franchot Tone
Bob Harrison

May Robson
Granny

Ted Healy
Smiley

Nat Pendleton
Blossom

Rosalind Russell
Josephine

Mickey Rooney
Eddie

Written by (View all)

David O. Selznick

Norman Krasna
contributing writer

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Reckless

4 years ago at Apr 24 18:37

JxSxPx

What a curio 1935’s Reckless is. Not just for the backstage dynamics involved in its making but the morbid bits of autobiography and uneasy tonal switches between screwball musical comedy and torrid melodrama. With the Pre-Code years behind them, MGM sought to turn Jean Harlow’s rounded figure into a square leading lady type. Reckless was one of many attempts at softening and desexing the blon... read more

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Wealthy Bob Harrison buys all the seats in the theatre to watch Mona Leslie's musical by himself. He loves her, her agent Ned Riley loves her.

Release date: 19 April 1935

Tags: Comedy (3), Musical (3), Drama (2), 1935 (2), Mgm (1), Jean Harlow (1), MGM Studios (1)

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Reckless

“What a curio 1935’s Reckless is. Not just for the backstage dynamics involved in its making but the morbid bits of autobiography and uneasy tonal switches between screwball musical comedy and torrid melodrama. With the Pre-Code years behind them, MGM sought to turn Jean Harlow’s rounded figure into a square leading lady type. Reckless was one of many attempts at softening and desexing the blonde bombshell’s screen image. Producer David O. Selznick based this story loosely on the true-life tale of the Libby Holman murder scandal. Holman was a torch singer who married a tobacco heir named Zachary Smith Reynolds. He died of a gunshot wound to the head under questionable circumstances during a party in 1932. The scandal was huge news until the Reynolds family dropped its legal actio” read more