I'm sure most bachelors have heard the line, "Excuse me while I slip into something more comfortable." Not many people realize that phrase was first uttered on-screen by this week's femme fatale Jean Harlow in the Howard Hughes production "Hells Angels" (1930). In the 1920's and 30's, platinum blonde Harlow laid the groundwork for many of the glamour era's most popular blonde bombshells: Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Mamie Van Doren, etc... Harlow knew how to exploit her own sexuality and how to turn that exploitation into a publicity machine for her career. (Case in point: a series of nude photos of her was commonly distributed throughout Hollywood.) The other important thing about Harlow was that she used humor rather than raw sex appeal to endear herself to movie audiences. (This is a good foreshadowing of humor used to fight the battle of the sexes in 40's and 50's men's magazines.) Unfortunately, Harlow's personal life was filled with tragedy and scandal--most importantly the 1932 suicide of her husband Paul Bern. Harlow died in 1937 at age 26, well before the her true potential as a superstar could be reached.