# I Saw 'Platinum Blonde' This Weekend.. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 21, 2004, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-platinum-blonde-this-weekend/256190 "2004-07-21T15:53:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-platinum-blonde-this-weekend/256190/1 "2004-07-21T15:53:45Z")
‘Stew Smith’ - AKA Robert Williams. I saw this guy in the movie, and thought… ‘Wow, he must’ve had a career… he’s got just the right demeanor for screwball comedy, and exudes a Bing Crosby-like charisma.’ Then I check IMDB - and find out he died of appendicitis that same year. He coulda been somebody. ---
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-platinum-blonde-this-weekend/256190/2 "2004-07-21T16:40:37Z")
Honest to God, I thought you meant the Canadian band from the 1980s. I came in to point and laugh at you. Thank goodness, I was wrong. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-platinum-blonde-this-weekend/256190/3 "2004-07-21T16:46:03Z")
[This](http://www.musicbymailcanada.com/PlatinumBlonde/intro.html) is who I was thinking of. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-platinum-blonde-this-weekend/256190/4 "2004-07-21T16:46:06Z")
He was terrific, in a Jimmy Stewart/Lee Tracy kind of way, wasn’t he? He did some B’way shows and a handful of movies in 1930–31, then—_bang_. Dead. It was very easy to die young back then. (Wasn’t Jean Harlow adorable in that movie? Her first comedy role!) ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-platinum-blonde-this-weekend/256190/5 "2004-07-21T16:57:31Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > He was terrific, in a Jimmy Stewart/Lee Tracy kind of way, wasn’t he? He did some B’way shows and a handful of movies in 1930–31, then—_bang_. Dead. It was very easy to die young back then. > > (Wasn’t Jean Harlow adorable in that movie? Her first comedy role!) You know, she’s a great light comedienne from the little I’ve seen of her (3 movies so far)… and she’s quite good at putting out a sultry vibe… but I honestly think she’s not all that pretty. Her face is… misshapen, somehow. Maybe I’m crazy. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-platinum-blonde-this-weekend/256190/6 "2004-07-21T18:15:24Z")
> [@Nutty Bunny](#): > > [This](http://www.musicbymailcanada.com/PlatinumBlonde/intro.html) is who I was thinking of. Good God. :eek: You really should have published a warning before posting that link. Oh, the 80’s… :o ---
**Author:** ![Ultraviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/c77e96/32.png) [@Ultraviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ultraviolet)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-platinum-blonde-this-weekend/256190/7 "2004-07-21T18:25:31Z")
> [@Nutty Bunny](#): > > Honest to God, I thought you meant the Canadian band from the 1980s. I came in to point and laugh at you. > > Thank goodness, I was wrong. 😃 I actually used to belong to the Platinum Blonde fan club! (OH the shame! But, I was very young, and Mark Holmes was one of my first crushes). Looking back, maybe I had a crush on him since he looked so much like a woman. Hmm, interesting, maybe I’m finding the roots of my lesbianism 🙂 [/end hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2004, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-platinum-blonde-this-weekend/256190/8 "2004-07-21T18:41:08Z")
> [@CandidGamera](#): > > You know, she’s a great light comedienne from the little I’ve seen of her (3 movies so far)… and she’s quite good at putting out a sultry vibe… but I honestly think she’s not all that pretty. Her face is… misshapen, somehow. Maybe I’m crazy. Oh, she wasn’t a great beauty—she had a weak chin, heavy brow and kinda big nose. But the _cutest_ smile ever, and she was a bang-up comedienne. Shame about [Robert Williams](http://imdb.com/name/nm0931551/)—I’ve seen him in _Rebound_ and _The Common Law_, too, and he was reliably good.