On Borrowed Time

1937: Jean Harlow outside the MGM producers’ building between takes on Personal Property, her last completed feature.

Left to right: MGM general manager and scandal snuffer Eddie Mannix, Harlow, Robert Montgomery. Harlow wears the enormous star sapphire ring given to her by William Powell.

Joan Crawford, circa 1934

Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941)

One of my favorites, Hitchcock’s rare foray into comedy. A lot of critics continue to dismiss it, but it ain’t half bad. Definitely not as funny as Lubitsch’s To Be or Not to Be — her final film, released after her death — but damn close.