Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 Lillian `Lil`: Sally I`m the happiest girl in the world. I`m in love and I`m gonna be married.
Sally: You`re gonna marry Albert?
Lillian `Lil`: No, Gaerste.
Sally: In love with Gaerste?
Lillian `Lil`: No, Albert.
Lillian `Lil`: [trying on a dress in a store, Lil positions herself in front of a sunny window] Can you see through this?
Off-camera store clerk: I`m afraid you can, Miss.
Lillian `Lil`: I`ll wear it.
Off-camera store clerk: Oh!
Lillian `Lil`: Well you son-of-a-sea-snake! Have you got on my new pajamas?
[Sally hesitates guiltily]
Lillian `Lil`: Yeah, well you shake right out of `em, Hortence.
Sally: [annoyed] Alright!
Lillian `Lil`: I`m too important these days to sleep informally.
[removes her blouse]
Lillian `Lil`: What if there`d be a fire?
Sally: You`d have to cover up to keep from being recognized.
[camera pans down to Lil`s legs as Sally hands her the silk pajama pants]
Lillian `Lil`: [climbing into the pajamas] Say love, let`s have a little more respect from you, now that I belong to one of the fine old families...
Sally: Oh, yeah? If I were you I`d go a little bit slow.
Lillian `Lil`: Whaddyou mean by that?
Sally: Well, Bill Legendre and his wife might get together and decide that you were merely a strange interlude.
Lillian `Lil`: Strange interlude, nothing! When I kiss `em, they stay kissed for a long time.
Sally: Well, see you don`t get left holdin` the bag, sweetheart, full of nothin` but air. You better hang on to that bootlegger of yours.
Lillian `Lil`: [incredulous] What? Go on with Al after Bill Legendre? Oh no, I`ve started on the upgrade, and whatever happens, baby, I`m in the big leagues now.
Trivia
Although the film was actually banned from public showings in Great Britain when it was originally released, King George V had a personal copy.
Jean Harlow wore a wig for this film. Because this film was filmed in black and white, to make up for the subtle change in hair color by the wig, her makeup was made more dramatic, to highlight the nature of her character.
The screenplay submitted by F. Scott Fitzgerald was rejected by producer Irving Thalberg, who thought it took the story too seriously, so he brought in Anita Loos to do a complete rewrite with a lighter, more comical tone.
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Jean Harlow
(as Lillian 'Lil' | 'Red' Andrews Legendre)
with Chester Morris
(as William `Bill` | `Willie` Legendre Jr.)
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