Shakespeare References in Harlow: An Intimate Biography

Irving Shulman's Harlow: An Intimate Biography contains a couple of Shakespeare references. The first is to Hamlet: "However, if subtitles were lacking and if the actor had to interpret in silence the agony of Paul Bern, the necessary gestures would have taxed the ingenuity of a mute Hieronimo, the most hambone Hamlet" (p. 63). And then Irving Shulman writes, "And, because gangsters, as other men, enjoyed the company of starlets, Marino's little black book was deemed as valuable as a Shakespeare First Folio" (p. 266). This book was published in 1964. The copy I read was the Mayflower-Dell paperback.