Description. True or not, it didnt matter. Rare oil portrait of silent screen legend Clara Bow, posing nude in 1929 for Hungarian artist Geza Kende. Clara Bow was born on 1905-07-29. She is endowed with a mentality far beyond her years. After 1927's It, a film adapted from a Elinor Glyn novella, Clara Bow became very popular . Christine Tran is a history buff(ette) and media scholar. "Hollywood Star treatment Clara Bow", Thames Television, 1980, UK. Lugosis marriage to Weeks might have been for her money, or maybe he was trying to make Bow jealous. 3 Beds. "[122] A visibly nervous Bow had to do a number of retakes in The Wild Party because her eyes kept wandering up to the microphone overhead. Bow met her first boyfriend, cameraman Arthur Jacobson, and she got to know director Frank Tuttle, with whom she worked in five later productions. [35] In the January issues 1922 of Motion Picture Classics, the contest jury, Howard Chandler Christy, Neysa McMein, and Harrison Fisher, concluded: She is very young, only 16. Nearby homes similar to 6465 Clara Bow Ave #101 have recently sold between $310K to $310K at an average of $210 per square foot. Nicole and Jamal George and Latoya Jackson. Bow plays a department store worker in hot pursuit of her handsome boss, and Glyn herself has a cameo. [6] At the apex of her stardom, she received more than 45,000 fan letters in a single month (January 1929).[7]. As the sassy broad wrote, You brush off Clara Bow for some old nothing like Brooks. Brooks letter actually had the intended effect. She would go on to become America's most loved and most controversial sex symbol of the silent film era. When she was just 16 years old, she entered the annual Fame and Fortune Brewster magazine contest, which pitted hopefuls against each other in a series of screen tests and promised film work in the winners future. 6.1. The time must be given in wrist watch time, as it would have been shown on a normal person's wrist watch at the place of the birth event.All necessary corrections for time zone or daylight saving time are applied by the computer automatically. Her appearance as a plucky shopgirl in the film It brought her global fame and the nickname "The It Girl". In 1928, Bow appeared in four Paramount releases: Red Hair, Ladies of the Mob, The Fleet's In, and Three Week-Ends, all of which are lost. [79], I worked in two and even three pictures at once. [145] In 1965, at age 60, she died of a heart attack, which her autopsy attributed to atherosclerosis. Hush contest. Her personal appearance is almost enough to carry her to success without the aid of the brains she indubitably possesses. "[90], Bow began to date her co-star Gilbert Roland, who became her first fianc. They are snobs. Down to the Sea in Ships, shot on location in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and produced by independent "The Whaling Film Corporation", documented life, love, and work in the whale-hunter community. Neighborhood stats provided by third party data sources. Encouraged by her father, Bow continued to visit studio agencies asking for parts. Bow came by her famous, wild red locks naturally, but she still got a little artificial help for it. Birth Time Entry. In front of the judge and jury, DeVoe related a series of stories about Bows fast and loose ways, many of them exaggerated. [82] Three days later it was announced that Schulberg would join with Adolph Zukor to become associate producer of Paramount Pictures, "catapulted into this position because he had Clara Bow under personal contract". Bow and actor Rex Bell (later a lieutenant governor of Nevada) had two sons, Tony Beldam (born 1934, changed name to Rex Anthony Bell, Jr., died 2011) and George Beldam, Jr. (born 1938). Our credibility is the turbo-charged engine of our success. [51] But first she was lent to First National Pictures to co-star in the adaptation of Gertrude Atherton's 1923 best seller Black Oxen, shot in October, and to co-star with Colleen Moore in Painted People, shot in November. AFI left her off their iconic 100 Years100 Stars list, and movie historian Kevin Brownlow completely omitted her from his silent film book The Parades Gone By. Only when I remember it, it seems to me I can't live. Usually I was too fat, she remembered. [28] Clara is the total nonconformist. Bow suffered from chronic sinus problems, and decided to get them fixed. [16] "Why can't I stay in New York and make movies?" John Gilbert was the other. Sarah was told by a doctor not to become pregnant again, because this time she might die as well. #1 On Your Birthday . Clifton said she was too old, but broke into laughter as the stammering Bow made him believe she was the girl in the magazine. let me know below. View more recently sold homes. As her director Frank Tuttle recalled, She could cry on demand, opening the floodgate of tears almost as soon as I asked her to weep. This, however, came with a dark side. Clara Bow, (born July 29, 1905, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.died September 27, 1965, Los Angeles, California), American motion-picture actress called the "It" Girl after she played in It (1927), the popular silent-film version of Elinor Glyn 's novel of that name. After Sarah passed in 1923, Bow screamed at her other family members who had gathered for the funeral, calling them hypocrites for never caring about Sarah. Clara Gordon Bow (/ b o /; July 29, 1905 - September 27, 1965) was an American actress who rose to stardom during the silent film era of the 1920s and successfully made the transition to "talkies" in 1929.Her appearance as a plucky shopgirl in the film It brought her global fame and the nickname "The It Girl". 2.5 Baths. 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The picture exposes the widespread liquor traffic in the upper classes, and Bow portrays an innocent girl who develops into a wild "red-hot mama" ("a naughty, inebriated flapper"[74]). [a][21] From her earliest years, Bow had learned how to care for her mother during the seizures, as well as how to deal with her psychotic and hostile episodes. "[68], My life in Hollywood contained plenty of uproar. Bow remembered their reunion: "I didn't care a rap, for (her), nor B. P. Schulberg, nor my motion picture career, nor Clara Bow, I just threw myself into his arms and kissed and kissed him, and we both cried like a couple of fool kids. School: Bay Ridge High School for Girls, Erasmus Hall High School. In late 1925, Bow returned to New York to co-star in the Ibsenesque[98] drama Dancing Mothers, as the good/bad "flapperish" upper-class daughter Kittens. Clara Bow was a Brooklyn girl through and through. When Bow made her short-lived comeback in the 1933 drama Hoop-La, she really let it all hang out. "[135] Soon every studio in Hollywood (except Paramount) and even overseas wanted her services. Thanks for your time! Bow always did know how to hustle. Im a big freak, because Im myself! said Clara Bow. "All the time the flapper is laughing and dancing, there's a feeling of tragedy underneath, She's unhappy and disillusioned, and that's what people sense"Bow[140], Bow eventually began showing symptoms of psychiatric illness. She was born on July 29, 1905 to Robert and Sarah Bow in Prospect Heights, New York. Sadly, more harrowing moments were in store. This vivacious young woman exchanged the rags and deprivations of her slum childhood in Brooklyn for the glamour and riches of Hollywood, but lived to regret it. 111, P.S. He told her she was too old, and Bow had to spend the rest of the appointment convincing him she was a kid after all. [24][25][26] On January 5, 1923, Sarah died at the age of 43 from her epilepsy. The beautiful Bow was pretty indiscriminate about where she lay her head, and her habits always got her into hot water if her bed-mate was actually, uh, married. "No more flappers they have served their purpose people are tired of soda-pop love affairs", she told the Los Angeles Times,[66] which had commented a month earlier, "Clara Bow is the one outstanding type. Bow will always be best remembered for It, a romantic caper adapted from Elinor Glyns novel, its title a euphemism for sexual magnetism. And as confident as she was on a silent movie set, the looming microphones and wires of the sound era terrified her. Reportedly, all she had to do was listen to the lullaby Rock-a-Bye Baby to turn the faucet on. But while Bows issues came naturally, Sarahs were born of cruel twist of fate. In September 1937, she and Bell opened The 'It' Cafe in the Hollywood Plaza Hotel at 1637 N Vine Street near Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles. Besides her flaming red hair, Bows lips were also a national sensation. My right arm was developed from pitching so much Once I hopped a ride on behind a big fire engine. Its just that they hid it, and Clara didnt. Bow knew the truth. This was a condition apart from the seizures known to cause disordered thinking, delusion, paranoia, and aggressive behavior. Clara was different in more ways than one, but nothing was as unique as her rise to stardom. Flapper Girls. "[16], Bow's parents were descended from English and Scots-Irish immigrants who had come to America the generation before. Instead, she lived by herself in a small bungalow until her devastating end. Still, on second thought it might not be safe: Clara uses a dangerous pair of eyes. The pair were obsessed with each other, but as two Hollywood hotties, they also saw other people. Louise Brooks in Branlow, Kevin; Gill, David. Clara Bow was Hollywood's first sex symbol. RM EC8004 - Clara Bow in 'Hula', a 1927 silent . Clara made three pictures that will never be surpassed: Dancing Mothers, Mantrap, and It. When Clara was born, New York was in the middle of a ravaging heat wave, with temperatures rising over a punishing 100 degrees. In late July, Bow entered studio chief B. P. Schulberg's office wearing a simple high-school uniform in which she "had won several gold medals on the cinder track". If youre not tearing up just thinking about that, it goes deeper: Bow claimed the lullaby reminded her of her late, little friend who expired in her arms. The greatest box-office draw of her dayshe once received 45,000 fan letters in a single month, Clara Bow's on screen vitality and allure that beguiled . In the Cinderella based story It, the poor shop-girl Betty Lou Spence (Bow) conquers the heart of her employer Cyrus Waltham (Antonio Moreno). Need I say that Bela was hooked? Madame de Pompadour was the alluring chief mistress of King Louis XV, but few people know her dark historyor the chilling secret shared by her and Louis. "[16] Bow and her father moved in at 1714 North Kingsley Drive in Hollywood, together with Jacobson, who by then also worked for Preferred. [16] Still, Bow felt deprived of her childhood; "As a kid I took care of my mother, she didn't take care of me". Oh, it was wonderful. Instead of trying to get the popular girls to like her, Bow went another route entirelyshe became an incorrigible tomboy. The great and the good of Tinseltown resented that. She said about her childhood, "I never had any clothes. Tuttle remembered: Her emotions were close to the surface. Clara's mother Sarah was not keen to marry but felt the pressure from her family. The only art that was off-limits to her, according to some, was novels. Clara Bow Birth Name: Clara Gordon Bow Occupation: Movie Actress Place Of Birth: Brooklyn Date Of Birth: July 29, 1905 Date Of Death: September 27, 1965 Cause Of Death: N/A Ethnicity: White Nationality: American Clara Bow was born on the 29th of July, 1905. Lobbycard of the movie"Children of Divorce" with from left, Esther Ralston and Clara Bow, in 1927. Old Hollywood Glamour. My right arm was quite famous.. [citation needed] Brownlow made up for this omission by including an entire segment about Bow in his television documentary Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film (1980), for which he interviewed Brooks. Though it was DeVoe who was on trial, somehow Bow ended up with all the backlashespecially when Daisy revealed all of Claras worst secrets. Of all of Bows scandalous affairs, her tryst with horror star Bela Lugosi was the most bizarreright from the very beginning. He committed an unforgivable act. Clara Bow had a series of breakdowns beginning just before she left Hollywood, and her husband, Rex Bell, ended up committing her to a sanatorium, just as her father had done to her mother and her grandfather had done to her grandmother before her. Bow remembered: "All this time I was 'running wild', I guess, in the sense of trying to have a good time maybe this was a good thing, because I suppose a lot of that excitement, that joy of life, got onto the screen. The union only lasted an infamous three days. She was born on July 29, 1905 to Robert and Sarah Bow in Prospect Heights, New York. 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