Jul
11
Jean Harlow, who died of kidney failure in 1937, was only 26 years old.
The day that she died, Spencer Tracy wrote in his diary, “Jean Harlow died today. Grand gal.” One of the MGM writers later said: ”The day Baby died there wasn’t one sound in the commissary for three hours.” MGM closed down on the day of Harlow’s funeral on June 9. She was buried in the gown she wore in Libeled Lady, and in her hands she held a white gardenia and a note in which William Powell had written: ”Goodnight, my dearest darling.”
