SteinMo What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.

RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Mehdi Hoffman There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

JohnHowardReid The movie took excellent money domestically and in Great Britain. In Australia, it was one of the big hits of 1932. COMMENT: Harlow swings her way through a comedy whose plot is rather similar to that of Love Is News (and its remake). She is beautifully photographed and most attractively costumed, whilst the director makes the most of her presence with delightfully long tracking shots and imaginative camera angles. And while the plot is familiar to us modern viewers, it is served up with wit. Harlow seems a bit unsure of herself in her earlier scenes, but really warms to the role as the film progresses and quite overshadows Loretta Young who has the nominal heroine role. The rest of the cast is very competent. Robert Williams, who died shortly after the film was made, was a natural and graceful player with the style and the voice of Lynn Overmann. Reg Owen and Halliwell Hobbes contribute some amusing bits of business. The film was produced on a lavish budget and Capra has directed with tremendous style and imaginative verve.OTHER VIEWS: Platinum Blonde loses track of itself about seven/eighths of the way through and comes to an unsatisfactory end. I mean nobody is rooting for the lackluster, thin-as-a-rake Loretta Young character when the hero is already bedded down with voluptuous Jean. Still,One for Harlow Robert Williams is an interesting personality (I always look him up whenever I see this film to see what else he starred in - I'd certainly like to see some of his other films) and the film has enough, wit, pace and get-up and go to sustain interest over several viewings. Some great character studies too from Halliwell Hobbes as a backsliding butler, Claude Allister as a superfluous flunkey and Louise Closser Hale as outraged mother. Walter Catlett, Reg Owen and the guy who plays the editor are amusing too. Stylish direction and camerawork. Other technical credits A-1. - JHR writing as George Addison.

Antonius Block Rom-com, 1931 style. Robert Williams plays a newspaper reporter who falls for a rich socialite (Jean Harlow) and the two get married, against her mother's objections. The relationship is ill-matched, him resenting being treated as a 'bird in a gilded cage', as he and others put it, and she disliking his crude ways and partying friends. Meanwhile, the gal pal played by Loretta Young carries a torch for him all along. You know how it's going to end, but it's charming nevertheless, has a script full of funny touches, and is well cast all around. Williams is smooth and wonderful, and reminds one of Spencer Tracey. Characteristic to the time, he settles a few disagreements with his fists, but it's as good-natured a way as Capra can make it. He also a couple of very nice romantic scenes with Harlow – the first, talking and then kissing behind the window of a beautiful garden waterfall, and the second, playfully making up and singing a song debating whether he should wear garters or not. It's absolutely tragic that Williams would die at the age of 37 three days after the film's premier, and that Harlow would die six years later at the age of 26.

evanston_dad I see that I'm in good company here on IMDb in first wondering why on earth I had never heard of Robert Williams before and then in regretting that his career was cut so short after hearing his story.Williams proves himself to be a winning and engaging comedian in this very funny Frank Capra film about a reporter (Williams) who marries a society dame (Jean Harlow) only to realize that his true love is for the female co-worker (Loretta Young) who's been by his side the whole time. Never mind that Young is one hundred times more feminine and prettier than Harlow -- I just chalk it up to the theory that Harlow had a certain look that was very much in vogue in the 1930s and that made her extremely attractive to people.I don't think Harlow is at all attractive, but I do see her appeal, and I didn't find her performance to be as bad in this film as the history books have claimed. It's true that the casting should have been reversed, and Young should have played the society belle with Harlow as the working-class girl next door. But never mind. She equips herself pretty well with the material given her, and she manages to be believable in the role.But in any case, it's neither of the women you'll remember from this movie. It's Williams and his absolutely fantastic way with a funny line. He died of appendicitis at the age of 37, and it's clear that 30s movie audiences lost a potentially major star when they lost him.Grade: A-

cstotlar-1 This is a Capra film that falls rather uneasily between two stools. There was the Capra of silent films and the era of slapstick, visual humor. Harry Langdon comes to mind. And then there is Capra in full form with his (self-described) "Capracorn" that we know so well from "Mr. Smith" and "Wonderful Life" to name only a few of his successes. Time didn't treat him quite so well later in life and the formulas that once served so well seemed to fizzle. "Platinum Blonde" has several germs found in later films but as yet undeveloped. Loretta Young's character had tremendous potential and Jean Harlow's character was not quite ready to fly yet with the later screwball comedies. Stew was the Star and that about summons things up. It's a curious film that would undoubtedly appeal to people specifically interested in Capra's development but I wasn't overwhelmed or even very much impressed.Curtis Stotlar