Jean Harlow, the beloved American actress and quintessential "Platinum Blonde" of the early 1930s, passed away on June 7, 1937, at the age of 26. Her untimely death occurred at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, California, due to complications from kidney failure, specifically cited as cerebral edema, acute respiratory infection, acute nephritis, and uremia. Born Harlean Harlow Carpenter on March 3, 1911, in Kansas City, Missouri, Harlow rose to immense stardom during her brief nine-year career, becoming a leading sex symbol and one of Hollywood's biggest movie stars. Her funeral was held on June 9, 1937, at the Wee Kirk o' the Heather chapel within Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California, where she was interred in a private mausoleum purchased by her partner, William Powell.