YOU SAID IT, SISTER! Jean Harlow's distinct voice was nearly as famous as her platinum blonde hair and traffic-stopping figure. Whether she was delivering a heart-felt dramatic line or cracking wise with incredible comedic timing, Jean placed her own indelible mark on the part she was playing. And let's not forget to give a tip of the hat to the unseen writers who came up with these fabulous examples of my favorite lines from her films!

By the way, did you know that Jean spoke French in one of her films? It was at the end of Red Headed Woman!

BEAST OF THE CITY

work.wav

Cop: Whadda ya do for a living?
JH: Stenographer.
Cop: Working now?
JH: No.
Cop: Well whadda ya do for a living when yer not working?
JH: Look for work.

BOMBSHELL

whoknows.wav

Well here goes for another day's work and I'm dead on my feet already. What's the way out of this squirrel cage? Who knows, who cares, doh-dee-oh-doh....

womhood.wav

JH: You know deep down in every girl's heart, there's the desire for the right of all womanhood. Beside her fireplace with her husband and her children around.
Pat O'Brien: Say listen, you can't raise a family and make five pictures a year.

chump.wav

A glamorous bombshell, eh? A glorified chump, that's what I've been. Well I'm through do ya understand? With the business, with everybody! You can get another "If Girl" a "But Girl" or a "How, Where and When Girl," I'm clearing out!

CHINA SEAS

chdoll.wav

Clark Gable: Who's in there?
JH: It's China Doll, the gal that drives men mad.
CG: What the devil are you doing aboard?
JH: Nothing, limey. Just showering the dewdrops off the body beautiful.

dish_it.wav

I stole the key. Yes I stole it and gave it to Jamesy. But I came to your cabin to warn you about him. Figure it out for yourself why I didn't. I'da stood and fought back to back with you. But you taught me something I didn't even know myself. When a woman can love a man right down to her fingertips she can hate him the same way. Now call your cops. Call every cop in the country, I don't care. If you can dish it out I can take it!

DINNER AT EIGHT

windbag.wav

JH: Who do you think you're talking to, that first wife of yours out in Montana?
Wallace Beery: Now you leave her outta this...
JH: Poor meely-faced thing with a flat chest that didn't have nerve enough to talk up to you...
WB: Shut up...
JH: Washin' out your greasy overalls and cookin' and slavin' in some lousy mining shack, no wonder she died!
WB: Say I'll sock you in a minute...
JH: Well you can't get me that way. You're not gonna step on my face to get where you wanna go, ya big windbag!

expose.wav

You know, my skin's terribly delicate and I don't dare expose it.

readbook.wav

JH: I was reading a book the other day.
Marie Dressler: Reading a book?!
JH: Yes, it's all about civilization or something, a nutty kind of a book!
MD: Huh!
JH: Do you know the guy said that machinery is going to take the place of every profession?
MD: Oh my dear, that's something you need never worry about.

THE GIRL FROM MISSOURI

no.wav

JH: No!
FT: Hey, can't you say anything but no?
JH: No.
FT: You know you can't go on giving me the runaround forever.
JH: Oh yes I can.

hotsy.wav

JH: I haven't had any education, all right! I look like a hotsy-totsy, all right! Nobody ever cared two hoots whether I amount to anything or not, all right! But I care!
Franchot Tone: Gee, you're swell!
JH: Yeah, but not swell enough to marry. Now open that door!

HELL'S ANGELS

hells2.wav

Live recording at HELL'S ANGELS premiere...

Announcer: Jean Harlow!
JH: Thank you. I would like to use this occassion to publicly thank Mr. Hughes for the opportunity he gave me.

comfort.wav

Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable?

HOLD YOUR MAN

dame.wav

Clark Gable: You're not sore on account of that dame are ya? She don't mean a thing to me.
JH: The both of you don't mean anything to me.

LIBELED LADY

baboon.wav

JH: I won't be quiet! The things I've taken for that newspaper, Warren Haggerty, but this gets the blue ribbon! Trying to marry me off to that-to that baboon!
William Powell: Say, let's not deal in personalities.

ether.wav

Spencer Tracy: Say, I certainly had that guy all wrong, he's a wonder.
JH: Hmm-hmm! Congratulations, when did you come out of the ether?

RED DUST

gladgirl.wav

JH: Well for the love of mud! Where am I sleeping, on a race track?
Clark Gable: Come on, lets have it. Who are you? Where'dya come from?
JH: Don't rush me brother. I'm Pollyanna the Gladgirl.
CG: I see.

barrel.wav

CG: Get out of there! Get out...
JH: Oh no don't, Denny, I'm in it now, stop! Gee, can't a girl take a bath in privacy without...oh, good morning! You're just in time to see the trained seal. Hey, Denny, scrub my back.

RED-HEADED WOMAN

seethru.wav

JH: Can you see through this?
Store clerk: I'm afraid you can, Miss.
JH: I'll wear it.

prefer.wav

So gentleman prefer blondes, do they? Yes they do!