Jean Harlow in Riffraff (1936). For her brownette debut, Irving Thalberg produced Riffraff, a comedy-drama of a cocky tuna fisherman (Spencer Tracy) and the wisecracking cannery worker who humbles him. Four years earlier Tracy had branded and beaten Harlow in Goldie, but now she was a star and he was an alcoholic new arrival whose latest bender delayed Riffraff for ten days. A consummate professional who curtailed her drinking during shooting, Jean resented his behavior, and when it persisted, s