title: Platinum Girl: The Life and Legends of Jean Harlow
author:  Eve Golden 
description: The movie star whose hair inspired the phrase "platinum blonde," Jean Harlow had a sexy, comic reputation on screen but was, as Golden emphasizes, more comfortable in casual clothes, relaxing with family and friends. Harlow packed a lot of living into a short time: after her career took off in 1930 with the release of Hell's Angels , she was Hollywood's blonde bombshell (the title of one of her movies) until her sudden death of kidney failure in 1937 at age 26. She also married three times and was involved with William Powell when she died. New York City freelance journalist Golden presents an appealing portrait of Harlow and sets a few inaccuracies straight. (For example, it was rumored that she died because her second husband, Paul Bern, beat her in the kidneys, but, according to medical authorities, the effects of such a beating would be instantaneous--and Bern committed suicide five years before her death.) Unfortunately, the text occasionally slips into fanzine style. (Concerning MGM's decision to shave Harlow's eyebrows, Golden writes, "She and Marlene Dietrich led the eyebrow brigade, which left fashionable women all over the world looking like startled drag queens.") This elegantly designed book includes many representative movie stills and publicity shots. <br />Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  Any Man of Mine
  
  Rachel Gibson
  
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   **Contents**
  
  Chapter One
  
  Chapter Two
  
  Chapter Three
  
  Chapter Four
  
  Chapter Five
  
  Chapter Six
  
  Chapter Seven
  
  Chapter Eight
  
  Chapter Nine
  
  Chapter Ten
  
  Chapter Eleven
  
  Chapter Twelve
  
  Chapter Thirteen
  
  Chapter Fourteen
  
  Chapter Fifteen
  
  Chapter Sixteen
  
  Chapter Seventeen
  
  Epilogue
  
   _About the Author_
  
   _Also by Rachel Gibson_
  
   _Copyright_
  
   _About the Publisher_
  
   **Chapter One**
  
  > > Any Man of Mine:
  
  > >  _No Professional Athletes_
  
   **S** am LeClaire was a good-looking son of a bitch. Everyone thought so.
  Everyone from sports writers to soccer moms.
  
  The girl wrapped up in his sheets thought so, too. Although she really wasn’t
  a girl. She was a woman.
  
  “I don’t see why I can’t go.”
  
  Sam glanced up from the knot in his blue-striped tie and looked in the mirror
  at the supermodel in his bed. Her name was Veronica Del Toro, but she was
  known by just her first name. Like Tyra and Heidi and Gisel