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<blockquote data-quote="ClassyCo" data-source="post: 283235" data-attributes="member: 7">I&#039;ve heard tell that Monroe was offered a script about Harlow sometime in the mid-to-late-&#039;50s when Fox was trying to lure away from the Actors Studio and &quot;get her in line&quot; by offering her the role she had always wanted to play. She turned that offer down flat because the script was bad. In 1962, at the time when she was renegotiating her contract with Fox. She had agreed to return and complete the troubled SOMETHING&#039;S GOT TO GIVE (which was eventually rebranded as MOVE OVER, DARLING in 1963 with Doris Day in the lead), and her next project would&#039;ve been WHAT A WAY TO GO! (which was made in 1964 with Shirley MacLaine). Also tabled as future projects for Monroe was a biopic on Harlow, a WWI-themed musical with Gene Kelly, a loan out to United Artists to make KISS ME, STUPID (which was made with Kim Novak in 1964), and a remake of A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN. 

The Harlow script then made its way to Paramount, where Carroll Baker was given the title role. She got the part based off of her performance in THE CARPETBAGGERS, where she played a fictional &#039;30s screen star, and because she was something of a successor to Monroe being she was a attractive, popular, blonde-haired film star. HARLOW, as the movie was ultimately called, came out in 1965 to disappointing reviews and poor box office. Around the same time, the lower-budget studio Magna put out their own HARLOW (using the same title as the Paramount version) starring Carol Lynley. The latter was more historically accurate, but another box office flop. Lynley was closer to Harlow&#039;s real age, but the film&#039;s poor production value hindered its success. I honestly don&#039;t know who I&#039;d see playing Harlow today. Singer-actress Gwen Stefani played her briefly in THE AVIATOR, the early-2000s biopic on Howard Hughes, the multimillionaire that &quot;discovered&quot; Harlow for HELL&#039;S ANGELS in 1930. There was a big hoopla for a while that Stefani should play Harlow in a full-length biopic, if not for the big screen, but maybe for something like HBO. I was never quite on board with that idea, and there&#039;s absolutely no one else I could see playing Harlow today. A Harlow-themed festival (or a &#039;30s one in general) would be fantastic. 
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[QUOTE="ClassyCo, post: 283235, member: 7"] [JUSTIFY]I've heard tell that Monroe was offered a script about Harlow sometime in the mid-to-late-'50s when Fox was trying to lure away from the Actors Studio and "get her in line" by offering her the role she had always wanted to play. She turned that offer down flat because the script was bad. In 1962, at the time when she was renegotiating her contract with Fox. She had agreed to return and complete the troubled SOMETHING'S GOT TO GIVE (which was eventually rebranded as MOVE OVER, DARLING in 1963 with Doris Day in the lead), and her next project would've been WHAT A WAY TO GO! (which was made in 1964 with Shirley MacLaine). Also tabled as future projects for Monroe was a biopic on Harlow, a WWI-themed musical with Gene Kelly, a loan out to United Artists to make KISS ME, STUPID (which was made with Kim Novak in 1964), and a remake of A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN. The Harlow script then made its way to Paramount, where Carroll Baker was given the title role. She got the part based off of her performance in THE CARPETBAGGERS, where she played a fictional '30s screen star, and because she was something of a successor to Monroe being she was a attractive, popular, blonde-haired film star. HARLOW, as the movie was ultimately called, came out in 1965 to disappointing reviews and poor box office. Around the same time, the lower-budget studio Magna put out their own HARLOW (using the same title as the Paramount version) starring Carol Lynley. The latter was more historically accurate, but another box office flop. Lynley was closer to Harlow's real age, but the film's poor production value hindered its success. [/JUSTIFY] [JUSTIFY]I honestly don't know who I'd see playing Harlow today. Singer-actress Gwen Stefani played her briefly in THE AVIATOR, the early-2000s biopic on Howard Hughes, the multimillionaire that "discovered" Harlow for HELL'S ANGELS in 1930. There was a big hoopla for a while that Stefani should play Harlow in a full-length biopic, if not for the big screen, but maybe for something like HBO. I was never quite on board with that idea, and there's absolutely no one else I could see playing Harlow today. [/JUSTIFY] [JUSTIFY]A Harlow-themed festival (or a '30s one in general) would be fantastic. [/JUSTIFY] [/QUOTE]

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