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Jean Harlow was the top blonde of the 1930s, and even though she didn’t survive the decade — she died in 1937 at the age of 26 — she’d inspire a generation of would-be platinum-haired bombshell stars. Today we revisit our 2015 episode on Harlow, to set the stage for the relentless forward march of Dead Blondes through the Twentieth Century.

This episode originally debuted in October 2015. The original show notes for this episode can be found here.