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It is difficult to believe that the early cinema icon Jean Harlow died at just 26 years old, because she lived so much life before her sudden death. She has become one of The biggest cinema stars of the 1930s , with films of which Red dust ,, Dinner at eight ,, Suzy , And Foyer . Harlow was also married three times, including when she was still a teenager.

However, one of the actor's most lasting relationships did not succeed in marriage, and some have concluded that it was because of his contract with the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) studio. According to some things, the Harlow contract would have forbidden him to marry, because it would have an impact on his image. Continue reading to learn more.

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Harlow married his first husband, a rich heir named Charles Fremont McGrew III , when she was only 16 years old and he was a few more years. The two moved to Los Angeles together where Harlow's acting career started. They divorced after two years of marriage in 1929. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

Harlow's second marriage was with MGM Executive Paul Bern . They were only married for two months in 1932, before Berne's death by what was deemed to commit suicide.

Harlow's last wedding was with the director of photography Harold Rosson , with which she had worked on several films. (Rosson was the director of photography of emblematic films The Wizard of Oz And Sing in the rain , among others.) According to the Los Angeles Times ,, Harlow and Rosson suffered pressure To get married by MGM, for which they both worked. This should prevent Bern's death scandal be linked to Harlow. Harlow and Rosson divorced after eight months in 1934.

After his marriage to Rosson, Harlow started a relationship with the actor William Powell , her Foyer And Reckless CO-STAR. But the two have never married, and some believe it was because of the MGM contract in Harlow.

According to the book Classic Hollywood scandals by Anne Helen Petersen ( via Vanity ), Harlow and Powell could not get married because "MGM had written a clause on his contract prohibiting him from getting married". Although he had married before, it is said that the studio did not want it to marry this time, because it would have ruined its character of "bomb".

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During this period in Hollywood, the studios had a significant control over the actors with regard to their personal life, as evidenced by the arranged marriage of Harlow and that which it was prohibited. According Vanity , this control went to studios organizing abortions for women - for women who wanted to have abortions themselves and for those that the studio did not want to become mothers.

Vanity reports that when Harlow got pregnant from Powell, she called Howard strickling , the advertising chief of MGM, who arranged so that pregnancy is interrupted. The book The Fixers: Eddie Mannix, Howard Stickling and the MGM advertising machine by E.J. Flamand Explains that Harlow then entered a hospital "to rest" but was only seen by his private doctors. She would also have been in the same hospital room in which a year later, she had an "appendectomy". Of course, he was not confirmed by Harlow which procedures she really suffered.

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Harlow died in 1937 at 26 years of kidney failure. Powell was with her when she passed.

THE Guardian 's Bishop of the time Said, "Mr. William Powell, the actor, was with Miss Harlow's mother at the bedside. They left the Good Samaritan hospital together.