Secret Philadelphia (A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful and Obscure)
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Featuring Ted Healy (Solo)
95.5 min. (Feature Film)
Lola Burns (Jean Harlow) is a famous movie superstar who has grown tired of the life of glamour and wants something more fulfilling. However, her publicity agent Space Hanlon (Lee Tracy) is always dreaming up scandalous tales to keep her name in the headlines. Lola tries to bring a sense of home-life to her harried existence by adding a family. She plans to adopt a baby and settle down with her director (Pat O'Brien), but each of her plans are dashed by Hanlon's sneaky duplicity. Meanwhile, her freeloading father (Frank Morgan) and drunkard brother Junior (Ted Healy) keep mucking up her chances at a normal life. Hanlon hatches a plan to end her desires for home and family, but eventually realizes that the reason he is spending so much time on Lola's publicity is that he's falling for her.
So as not to mislead audiences into thinking this was a war picture, MGM re-titled the film BLONDE BOMBSHELL for its initial run in the United Kingdom.
Frank Morgan is best remembered for his 1939 role of the Wizard in THE WIZARD OF OZ.
Jean Harlow
Lola Burns
Lee Tracy
E. J. Hanlon
Pat O'Brien
Jim Brogan
Frank Morgan
Pops Burns
Ted Healy
Junior Burns
Franchot Tone
Gifford Middleton
Una Merkel
Mac
Louise Beavers
Loretta
Mary Forbes
Mrs. Middleton
C. Aubrey Smith
Mr. Middleton
June Brewster
Alice Cole
Isabel Jewell
Lily
Primo Carnera
Himself, opening montage
Clark Gable
1st lover, opening montage
Nils Asther
2nd lover, opening montage
Leonard Carey
Winters
Donald Kerr
Monte, makeup man
Martha Sleeper
Hair stylist
Greta Meyer
Masseuse
Ruth Warren
Miss Carroll
Minerva Urecal
Autograph seeker
William Newell
Lola's chauffeur
Bill Dooley
Lola's 'husband'
Allen Wood
Frankie
Tenen Holtz
Lola's agent
Louis Natheaux
Car salesman
Philip Morris
Studio workman
Ivan Lebedeff
Hugo di Binelli
Gus Arnheim and His Orchestra
Themselves
James Burke
Immigration officer
Edward Gargan
Immigration officer
Kenner G. Kemp
Nightclub patron
Dennis O'Keefe
Nightclub patron
Harrison Greene
Reporter
Ben Erway
Reporter
Morgan Wallace
H. E. Gillette
Wilbur Mack
Ben Randolph
Don Brodie
Publicity photographer
Grace Hayle
Mrs. Titcomb
Kathrin Clare Ward
Orphanage nurse
Ed Brady
Press photographer
Miki Morita
Yokohama
Leonard Sillman
Jerry Beyers
Ethel Griffies
Mrs. Ward
Mary Carr
Miss Talley
Hooper Atchley
Desk clerk
Philo McCullough
Waiter
Dorothy DeBorba
Girl at autograph table
Marcia Mae Jones
Flower girl
Etta Moten
Singer
Shirley Ross
Singer
Victor Fleming
Director
Victor Fleming
Producer
Hunt Stromberg
Associate Producer
Robert Lee
Assistant Director
Jules Furthman
Screenplay
John Lee Mahin
Screenplay
Caroline Francke
Original Play
Mack Crane
Original Play
Norman Krasna
Additional Dialogue
Harold Rosson
Photography
Chester A. Lyons
Assistant Photography
Margaret Booth
Film Editor
Merrill Pye
Art Director
Douglas Shearer
Recording Director
William Steinkamp
Sound Mixer
Edwin B. Willis
Set Decoration
Johnny Mercer
Lyrics
Hoagy Carmichael
Lyrics
Adrian
Gowns
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