Red-Headed Woman
A gold-digging secretary will do whatever it takes to get ahead in society-including luring her morally minded boss away from his happy marriage. Lil (Jean Harlow) works for the Legendre Company and c…
Red-Headed Woman
A gold-digging secretary will do whatever it takes to get ahead in society-including luring her morally minded boss away from his happy marriage. Lil (Jean Harlow) works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill (Chester Morris) to divorce Irene (Leila Hyams) and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste (Henry Stevenson) and uses him to force society to pay attention to her. She has another affair with the chauffeur Albert (Charles Boyer). —Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu> In Renwood, the promiscuous and hot gold digger Lillian "Lil" (Jean Harlow) lives with her friend Sally (Una Merkel) in a poor neighborhood. She works for the Legendre Company with the only intention of seducing her boss William "Bill" Legendre (Chester Morris). When his beloved wife Irene "Rene" (Leila Hyams) Legendre travels to Cleveland with her Aunt Jane (May Robson), Lil takes his correspondence from his secretary and uses it as a pretext to go to his house. Then she uses sex to seduce Bill, but Rene unexpectedly returns home and finds them together. Lil succeeds in destroying Bill's marriage and he divorces Rene and marries her. When the powerful businessman of coal Charles B. Gaerste (Henry Stephenson) comes from New York to Renwood in a business trip, Lil has a love affair with him. Then, she travels alone to New York and becomes his mistress. But Bill's father William "Will" Legendre (Lewis Stone) is not naive and plots a scheme to help his son. —Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil The legendary Jean Harlow delivers a star-making performance in this racy pre-Code boundary pusher. She stars as Lil Andrews, a gold-digging secretary who will do whatever it takes to get ahead in society-including luring her morally minded boss away from his happy marriage. Snappily scripted by Anita Loos (who was called in to rewrite the original screenplay by F. Scott Fitzgerald), this salacious tale of sex and sin is often cited as one of the films that led to Hollywood's subsequent enforcement of the Production Code. —Anonymous
Red-Headed Woman
Comedy,Drama,Romance
Film Details
A gold-digging secretary will do whatever it takes to get ahead in society-including luring her morally minded boss away from his happy marriage. Lil (Jean Harlow) works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill (Chester Morris) to divorce Irene (Leila Hyams) and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste (Henry Stevenson) and uses him to force society to pay attention to her.
She has another affair with the chauffeur Albert (Charles Boyer). —Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu> In Renwood, the promiscuous and hot gold digger Lillian "Lil" (Jean Harlow) lives with her friend Sally (Una Merkel) in a poor neighborhood. She works for the Legendre Company with the only intention of seducing her boss William "Bill" Legendre (Chester Morris).
When his beloved wife Irene "Rene" (Leila Hyams) Legendre travels to Cleveland with her Aunt Jane (May Robson), Lil takes his correspondence from his secretary and uses it as a pretext to go to his house. Then she uses sex to seduce Bill, but Rene unexpectedly returns home and finds them together. Lil succeeds in destroying Bill's marriage and he divorces Rene and marries her.
When the powerful businessman of coal Charles B. Gaerste (Henry Stephenson) comes from New York to Renwood in a business trip, Lil has a love affair with him. Then, she travels alone to New York and becomes his mistress.
But Bill's father William "Will" Legendre (Lewis Stone) is not naive and plots a scheme to help his son. —Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil The legendary Jean Harlow delivers a star-making performance in this racy pre-Code boundary pusher. She stars as Lil Andrews, a gold-digging secretary who will do whatever it takes to get ahead in society-including luring her morally minded boss away from his happy marriage.
Snappily scripted by Anita Loos (who was called in to rewrite the original screenplay by F. Scott Fitzgerald), this salacious tale of sex and sin is often cited as one of the films that led to Hollywood's subsequent enforcement of the Production Code. —Anonymous.