Clara Bow’s fifty-first movie was True to the Navy, produced between Feb 28 and March 25, 1930, and released on May 31, 1930.

Clara didn’t need good material to sell a movie - her personality did that. Once again, the studio failed Clara with this sub-standard production. Variety stated: “the studio didn’t strain themselves looking after her interests.” Slowly, stupidly, the studio was killing the goose that was laying their golden eggs.

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Clara Bow’s fiftieth movie was Paramount on Parade, produced between August 19, 1929 and February 19, 1930, and released on April 19, 1930. Clara appeared in a sequence called The Redhead, performing True to the Navy with a chorus of forty-two sailors.

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Clara Bow’s forty-ninth movie was The Saturday Night Kid, produced between July 27 and August 19, 1929, and released on October 26, 1929. Clara played Mayme, one of two sisters in a love triangle. The cast included Jean Arthur, and Jean Harlow in her first credited speaking role.

Clara Bow, Jean Harlow and Jean Arthur in The Saturday Night Kid.

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Clara Bow’s forty-seventh movie was The Wild Party, produced between 2 - 29 January, 1929, and released on April 26, 1929. Clara played Stella Ames an extrovert student.

The Wild Party was a landmark movie - the first Clara Bow talkie. Also, it was directed by Dorothy Arzner, at that time the only female director working in Hollywood.

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James Wong Howe films and Victor Fleming directs Clara Bow, Ernest Torrance and Percy Marmont in Mantrap (1926). In the foreground, musicians provide mood music while in the background prop men move equipment to the new Paramount studio.

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This made my month. Someone made a fan restoration of the legendary PARAMOUNT ON PARADE (#ElsieJanis, et al., 1930). Featuring the great talents of #ClaraBow , #MauriceChevalier , #HelenKane , #WilliamPowell , #LeonErrol and #LillianRoth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmgpsVWKnhI

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Clara Bow in 1922 the year she filmed Down to the Sea in Ships, regarded by some as her first movie because the five scenes she filmed for Beyond the Rainbow earlier in 1922 were cut from the final print, only to be restored when she became a star. Her billing in Beyond the Rainbow also moved up from ninth to third when she achieved stardom.

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Picturegoer, December 1929. Clara Bow on Christmas, and her decision to try acting instead of secretarial work.

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indeed, clara attracted the fierce loyalty of all the right people, including her contemporary, louise brooks, who fought her corner against unkind critics & castigated film historian, kevin brownlow, who’d neglected to mention clara in his book, ‘the parade’s gone by’.
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because of her proclivity for living in the exact moment, opinion of her was divided. do you think clara cared? did she fuck. she had no time for hollywood’s elite.
‘they yell at me to be dignified. but what are the dignified people like? the people who are held up as examples for me? they are snobs. frightful snobs! i’m a curiosity in hollywood. i’m a big freak, because i’m myself!’
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a career was by no means handed to her in a champagne flute. clara’s life was grindingly tough. she grew up in poverty, a carer to her mentally unwell mum who’d been left to frequently by clara’s father, a rather itinerant husband. were it not for a magazine-sponsored acting contest called ‘fame & fortune’, bow’s life may have taken a tragic trajectory. the 16-year-old’s screen test wasn’t so much a performance as an embodiment - & it floored the jury. a star was born.
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late #art #history thread...
#art/#history: if you’ve ever wondered about the etymology of the phrase ‘it girl’, you’re looking at…erm, it!
clara bow (born #otd in 1905) was all the rage in silent film (beginning with 1922’s ‘beyond the rainbow’) & then made a successful transition into talkies, the first of which was 1929’s ‘the wild party’. clara ended her cinematic oeuvre with ‘hoop-la’ in 1933.
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Clara Bow’s forty-fourth movie was Ladies of the Mob produced between April 10 and May 1, 1928, and released on June 30, 1928. Clara played Yvonne in a true story about a lifer in Folsom Prison.

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Clara Bow Quotes: “All my illusions about Hollywood were quickly dispelled. Here was no paradise. Here was a busy little community devoted, for the most part, to the manufacture of motion pictures, a business which ranked near the top of the country’s greatest industries. Big business. Here were no princes or princesses. Charming men and women, yes; and many who were not so charming…”

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Clara Bow’s forty-third movie was Red Hair produced between December 13, 1927 and January 9, 1928, and released on March 10, 1928. Clara played Bubbles McCoy. Sadly, the film is now considered lost. The opening sequence was filmed in two-strip Technicolor, and that sequence survives.

For the movie, Clara’s hair was bleached then dyed with henna to make it redder than ever.

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Clara Bow Quotes: “My advice for a girl trying to make good in Hollywood…Destroy the illusion from the start. Hollywood is no fairyland. Success comes to those with talent and ability who are willing to face hard work, to make such sacrifices as are demanded.

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Clara Bow’s forty-second movie was Get Your Man, produced between September 16 and October 13, 1927, and released on December 10, 1927. Clara played Nancy Worthington, a young woman out to ‘get her man’. Photoplay said of Clara’s performance: “Clara continues to charm and fascinate."

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Clara Bow’s forty-first movie was Hula, produced between June 9 - July 8, 1927, released August 27, 1927. Clara played the title character.

Banned intertitles, lines spoken by Clara (of course): “Kiss me, love me, begin again.” “Oh, ya do love me, Saint Anthony.”

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Clara Bow Quotes: “My advice to a girl trying to make good in Hollywood…In the first place, don’t under any circumstances ever come to Hollywood for motion picture work unless you have a contract, or definite assurance that you will be used in the making of screen plays.

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Clara Bow Quotes: “What advice would you endeavour to give a girl who was trying to make good in Hollywood? I can give my viewpoint with absolute frankness and understanding. I was ambitious and at the same time I was shy and super-sensitive. I saw Hollywood as Utopia.

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