Bombshell (1933)

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Bombshell is a 1933 American pre-Code romantic screwball comedy film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Jean Harlow, Lee Tracy, Frank Morgan, C. Aubrey Smith, Mary Forbes and Franchot Tone. It is based on the unproduced play of the same name by Caroline Francke and Mack Crane, and was adapted for the screen by John Lee Mahin and Jules Furthman.

Production

Mahin said the project originally began as a serious melodrama about a girl who worked all her life and committed suicide. He suggested it be turned into a comedy, and Fleming suggested they base it in the life of Clara Bow. Its success led to Harlow's being widely known as a "Blonde Bombshell."

The Laredo Times of Laredo, Texas, quotes Harlow in an interview about filming saying, "Thank goodness, it was not necessary for me to get in the rain barrel in Bombshell. I had to pick too many splinters out of myself the last time," referring to the 1932 film Red Dust, in which her character takes a bath in a rain barrel.

Early in the film, Lola Burns is told she has to shoot re-takes of Red Dust — the title of an actual Harlow/Clark Gable vehicle from the year before. In fact, there's a brief kissing scene with Gable, in the frenetic opening sequence of photos, scenes, and shots of fans, taken from Hold Your Man (1933).

According to the Worldwide Guide to Movie Locations, scenes in Bombshell were shot at MGM studios in Culver City. The nightclub scene was filmed at the Cocoanut Grove club, at the Ambassador Hotel in mid-town Los Angeles. It was demolished in 2006.

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