Jean Harlow is best known today for being the original blonde bombshell and sex symbol par excellence of the 1930s. However, there was more to John than his angelic beauty. One of my favorite actresses of all time, John was a gentle, intelligent and generous, never a diva, always friendly to everyone. It has been very misunderstood, and later became the inspiration for Marilyn Monroe. The parallels between their lives is borderline scary. Although Harlow seemed to have everything a woman could desire, she had a very tragic life, and at the age of 26 years, the “baby” was dead.
Jean Harlow never wanted to become an actress. Being young and naive, she was always bothered by the celluloid world of Hollywood, and being forced to be something she did not. According to his best friend, Clark Gable, “She did not want the fame. She wanted to be happy.” When John met actor William Powell in 1935, they quickly fell in love. After many failed marriages, John finally felt that Powell was “The One”, and wanted to marry her right away. However, Powell was fresh out of a divorce with actress Carole Lombard, and was reluctant to remarry. John, who was sensitive, heart-broken that Powell does not want to marry, and she took it personally. She started drinking to excess with his best friend and confidant of Clark Gable (the two were so close they saw every brother and sister. Clark was the only person who never called John “Baby” instead, he called the “SIS”) In fact, Gable boasted that Harlow could to him to drink!
In 1936, Harlow discovered she was pregnant with baby Powell. However, Powell and Harlow have always supported more children. It has always been the dream of Harlow to leave acting and become a wife and mother. However, Powell did not want children. It was the only blemish in their relationship, and it has often led to many fights between the two. John’s mother pressures her daughter to abort, and the party was likely John to realize his dream. Powell did not know the child. In 1937, Powell has finally hired Harlow, giving it a beautiful sapphire ring. That same year, John began filming Saratoga with Clark Gable.
When filming began, John had started to look sick. She gained some weight, which seemed natural to her tiny body. Her skin has also started to adopt a strange grayish color, and it was incredibly swollen and Moody. It was believed she had an inflammation of the gallbladder. As filming progressed, John began to arrive later and later to the whole. One day, she collapsed on set in great pain and Powell have been called to take her home. Jean condition has worsened. She began vomiting and episodes of delirium. Soon, she was taken to hospital. overprotective mother Harlow only allowed those dearest to John Powell and Gable, to visit him. Clark was especially shocked and shaken at the sight of a weak and ailing John, his best friend. When he bent to kiss him, he smelled of urine on his breath. He said this and we discovered she was misdiagnosed and suffered from uremic poisoning and kidney failure from a case of scarlet fever which she contracted when she was a child. Because of scarlet fever, kidney Jean deteriorates over the years without anyone noticing. In advanced renal illness, John could not excrete waste through their breath and sweat, which is why Gable smelled of urine on her lips. Powell was beside himself when he saw how swollen with urine John had become. His hair was shaved into desperation that would have drained some fluid from his head. Every day, Powell would leave the hospital room with a flushed face from crying.
Despite ongoing medical care, John falls into a coma and died June 7, 1937. Powell was shocked and upset, and for the rest of his life he regretted not marrying him. He was a changed man, more sober and mature. He himself was diagnosed with rectal cancer the following year. Fortunately, he caught early and treated. Gable also went into deep mourning for Harlow. He served as a pallbearer and usher in his star-studded funeral, and began to drink heavily. He reluctantly ended Saratoga without it. Powell paid $ 25,000 for John’s final resting place: a 9 of 10 private room lined with multicolored imported marble in the Sanctuary of the blessed at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. John was buried before, Powell had slipped a single white gardenia and a note in his hand saying “Good evening, my dear darling.”
But perhaps we have not lost Baby John, after all …
Jean Westwood elegant house would be haunted by her spirit. A resident of the house says that when she moved into the house, she heard a soft voice whispering in his ear “Please help me.” Although shaken, the woman did not leave the house. Throughout her stay, she had heard his name being called, and he had seen ectoplasm, which looked like cigarette smoke. Keeps his dogs bark and whine for any paranormal activity, and she also felt much bumping against the bed as if someone was trying to fall out of it. The lights flash on and off by themselves, and sometimes glimpse Jean reflect against the ceiling! Once, the woman also heard hysterical sobs wrenching, and there were many cold spots and winds around the house. The resident also heard footsteps and felt a slight brush against her cheek. There were also cases in which strong, musky scent that invade through the rooms of the house, and sometimes the sounds of a party have been heard coming from the closet.
It would be a dark story of four years that John spent in this house. Her second husband, Paul Bern, often beat her, and John would be left covered in bruises. Finally, Bern committed suicide in 1932, and Jean Westwood was at home when it happened. John immediately attempted suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills, feeling tha it was the reason for the death of Bern. Have death of Paul Bern have a link with John?