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Jean Harlow was 1930s Hollywood's reigning sex symbol—and greatest screwball actress. Why did she die at 26?
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Not Harlow. Mary Dees, the actress who filmed Jean Harlow's unfinished scenes in Saratoga. – The Film Colony ♛
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