The most celebrated biography of Hollywood’s Blonde Bombshell, Harlow in Hollywood is now updated with rare images and additional details about her remarkable life and its tragic end.

Jean Harlow. The name resonates. Platinum Blonde. Blonde Bombshell. The labels applied by press agents during Harlow’s seven-year career carry a charge 70 years later. An actress who died in 1937 has currency in 21st-Century culture. Harlow’s films make new fans, whether in revival theaters, on cable television, or on DVD. Vintage Harlow photographs sell for as much as $14,000, and camera negatives for as much as $50,000. Chat room fans debate the cause of her husband’s suicide and that of her own death. The movies’ first blonde sex symbol has become a legend. In fact, Harlow is the very prototype of all the blonde icons who have followed, from Marilyn Monroe to Jayne Mansfield, an original blueprint for glamour and tragedy

In this, Harlow expert Darrell Rooney and Hollywood historian Mark Vieira team to present the most beautiful—and accurate—book on Harlow ever produced. With more than 280 images, most never published, Harlow in Hollywood makes a case for Harlow as an Art Deco artifact in an iconic setting. Harlow in Hollywood is the first book devoted to both the Harlow image and the city that spawned it.