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In the spring of 1929, Jean Harlow, then known as Harlean McGrew, posed in the wilds of Griffith Park for pictorialist Edwin Bower Hesser. To get better work, she needed photographs and decided that posing for Hesser, even semi-nude, would open doors for her. In order to take these pictures legally she had to wait to turn eighteen, which she did on March 3, 1929. The three-thousand-acre park was built on land donated in 1896 by the eccentric Griffith J. Griffith, a Welsh immigrant who had made a fortune in mining and Los Angeles land speculation.
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