Today Is Tonight by Jean Harlow - 1965

8vo., 271pp., Publisher s original patterned boards with a gilt-stamped spine. A fine copy in a fine unclipped ($5.00) dustwrapper. Very scarce in hardcover with the jacket. Today Is Tonight is a novel written by Hollywood actress Jean Harlow (1911-1937) in the mid-1930s but not published until 1965. Harlow's friend Ruth Luise Hamp inherited the rights to the unpublished manuscript, Today Is Tonight, when Harlow's mother died, and then published the novel. Film critic Ezra Goodman wrote the introduction. Harlow's agent, Arthur Landau wrote the foreword. According to Landau, in his foreword to the novel, Harlow had expressed interest in writing a novel as early as 1933 1934 and completed a manuscript before her death in 1937. During her life, Harlow's stepfather Marino Bello shopped the unpublished manuscript around to a few studios. Louis B. Mayer had prevented the book from being sold by putting an injunction on it, using a clause in Harlow's contract that her services as an artist can't be used… Read More