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CREDITS
1935, 96 minutes, B&W.
Producer, David O. Selznick; Director, Victor Fleming; Screenplay, P.J. Wolfson and Oliver Jeffries [David O. Selznick]; Cinematography, George Folsey; Music Director, Edward Ward; Dance Direction, Carl Randall and Chester Hale.
CAST
Mona Leslie, Jean Harlow; Ned Riley, William Powell; Bob Harrison, Franchot Tone; Granny, May Robson; Smiley, Ted Healy; Blossom, Nat Pendleton; Josephine Mercer, Rosalind Russell; Mr. Harrison, Henry Stephenson; Allan, Allan Jones; Eddie, Mickey Rooney; Louise, Louise Henry; Paul Mercer, Robert Light; Dale Every, James Ellison.
As Themselves:
Man Mountain Dean, Carl Randall and Nina Mae McKinney.
SONGS
Reckless by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II; Everything's Been Done Before by Harold Adamson, Edwin H. Knopf and Jack King; Hear What My Heart Is Singing by Adamson and Burton Lane.
PLOT SYNOPSIS
"When carnival-girl-turned-stage-star Mona Leslie (Harlow) elopes with a melancholy playboy (Franchot Tone), the union sends reverberations throughout all of Broadway. Harlow's principled Cinderella turns tragedy into triumph, however, by showing the aristocratic set just what she - and they - are made of in this story of hard-earned heart versus genteel malice."
- Liner Notes from MGM/Turner Laserdisc
NOTES
"Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer attempted, unsuccessfully, to turn sexy Jean Harlow into a musical comedy star in Reckless, a rather lurid tale inspired by a real-life scandal in which Broadway actress Libby Holman was accused of killing her husband (and with more of a hint of it in Harlow's own marriage with Paul Bern)."
- Clive Hireschhorn, The Hollywood Musical
"Several sets of dramatic premises are established and then permitted to wander aimlessly, making the 93 minutes seem much longer than that."
- Variety
Jean Harlow's voice was dubbed by Virginia Verrill.
This was the film debut of Allan Jones.
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