How MGM Made Money From Jean Harlow's Dead Body

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Jean Harlow was not merely a Hollywood icon; she was a highly profitable corporate asset who was physically and chemically destroyed by the studio system. After enduring toxic scalp burns and being forced to work through fatal kidney failure, her ultimate exploitation occurred when MGM used a body double to turn her tragic death at twenty-six into a massive box-office windfall.