(Beautiful video on Clara Bow from the channel gohepcat on YouTube)
"Any scenario will never be more beautiful and dramatic of my real life. No life will tell you more of the costumes of Hollywood where the most shameless profligacy and the most hypocritical pudibonderia will clash in strange contrast. "
Paris 1933. In 1908 the beautiful Clara was the first success, she did hear his voice and it was carried in triumph. She was born .... for ten minutes! Actually, the only two viewers who watched its debut on the stage in life were his father and mother and perhaps .... guilty of bias. That was July 29, 1908 in Brooklyn (New York).
"I was a girl brought up in Brooklyn Street, between the kids, sharing with them the games and the beatings, but all taken by a strange dream of glory and fortune ... My father, Robert Bow, was a restaurant waiter. He did not live for my mother, poor to be sick and neurasthenic. And by her daughter on which he had founded great hopes do not know what ... At fifteen, I did not know that the sadness of a miserable hovel, but always looked away, up, push in these visions of my father who adored me. It was in 1921. A major newspaper in New York opened a photogenic contest. My father, gathering his few economies, led me to one of the most famous and beloved photographers Brooklyn. Then we waited. And one day I was called '
then won the first prize in a beauty contest, which included a premium for the screen test, which immediately gave her a part in the film of Billie Dove: Beyond the Rainbow , but unfortunately his part was cut out of the need for film art:
"What was my grief when the film came to New York (I called all my friends, and my father was shaking with emotion) and saw all that, you know? All the scenes where I was supposed to appear had been cut! My mother, who already made it almost mad mental imbalance, received me with blows, and forbade me to continue my life "scandalous." PROMISE: A few days later, on his deathbed, he made me swear not I'd never done movies. So I became a telephone operator in a medical clinic, and that I would still, perhaps, if my father had not managed to make me understand the annulment of an oath taken by a poor creature mad and dying. And then, retry the test. "
director Elmer Cliffon looking for a characteristic type film Down to the Sea in Ships , he remembered seeing the portrait of Clara Bow on the cover of a magazine of fashion and found it very photogenic and very friendly; and therefore offered to work on that film for 50 pounds a week.
Clara Bow went to such luck. A long series of films gave her many successes. But the pellicola che le diede fama internazionale fu It di Elinor Glynn. Allora « l'indiavolata dai capelli rossi » cominciò a far parlare di sé il mondo intero. Sulla sua vita privata furono raccontate innumerevoli storie scandalose, ma non per questo ella perdette la sua costante allegria ed il suo smagliante sorriso.
«Vissi intensamente il bel sogno divenuto realtà. Quanto guadagnai? Non so: l'oro correva per le mie mani come una fonte inesauribile. Un giorno Donald Keith mi strappò una promessa di matrimonio: io mi accorsi subito dell'errore e mi sposai di corsa con Gilbert Roland. Ma anche di lui mi stancai presto. E fu la volta di Victor Fleming. Il pubblico si divertiva delle mie incongruenze, io... ancora most of the public. But blacks were the days. The rich, young Robert Savage, who had taken the place of Fleming, one morning he was found wounded in the wrist by a blow razor, a bloody fist tight in my photography. The father threatens me a job, although his son was completely cured, I try to comfort in the arms of Gary Cooper a little peace. But the big boy of Montana has a stern magistrate father and a mother who never gives up. The interdisciplinary is a marriage considered shameful: Gary and bows to the will of his father. Then I lost my head. My adventures shocked alloys moralistic American: the storm grumbled around me, and I felt it. It was my secretary, Daisy Devoe, who produced the spark, linked com'era ad una di queste sette moralizzatrici, molte delle quali pagate da altre attrici gelose dei miei successi. E Devoe pubblicò le mie lettere private. Fu il processo. La segretario indiscreta fu condannata, ma io, povera, abbandonata da tutti, ammalata, delusa, dovetti lasciare Hollywood, la California, rompere i miei contratti, fuggire... Tutti mi avevano abbandonata tranne mio padre ed un uomo. Uno solo: Rex Bell.»
There is no woman more generous in the world of Clara Bow: She is a pain to know that there is someone who wants something and can not get it with his own devices. Give generously and do not even want to be thanked. He consumed a fortune on gifts, donations, gifts and even whims. Because of unpredictable Clara has had several.
Among other things it says it still retains all the love letters that have come from all parts of the world has done to this building a large trunk with a special lock. She does not like interviews and hates to be seen in public, and therefore it is said that she, in recent times, going around Hollywood with a blonde wig to avoid being recognized. Therefore prefers to spend evenings at home with a few friends rather than attend the mundane to find Hollywood. You most beloved music, perhaps, ensures Rex, her hear good music is the only way to do it quietly in a corner and listen without laughing, and making grimaces or toddle. The work that she enjoys most is "Il Trovatore" by Verdi. You appassionala in sports, yet is lazy, likes to get up late in the morning, have breakfast and begin its work very late one o'clock in the afternoon, lunch at 5, dinner at midnight and go to bed at 3 or 4 am. But it seems that life free of Nevada has contribuilo in changing his habits. She herself has designed the project for the new house that she and Rex were built last year in place of the small bungalow that Rex was, before marriage, more than enough. They made a very modern house, although it seems almost an irony it is located almost in a desert and several miles away from the nearest train station. The area of \u200b\u200bthe ranch is almost 300,000 acres. That's where the funny Clara riacquistalo has fully his health and what she claims to be the place she loves most of all the world, and where ever you want to remove. This did not, however, prevented one day to hear the nostalgia of the hectic life of cinema and to accept the proposal that the Fox Film, sensing in it a beautiful female figure, not yet faded charm, made her to interpret the new Fox film which is preparing to Movietone City. The film is called Call Her Savage (Blood rebel) and is an exotic love story of Tiffany Thayer. Clara Bow will soon see this new, more beautiful and fresher than before, in an interpretation that allows it to be able to show off his great sensitivity and renewed Art. In this film she has in fact Fox opportunity to play a part that is perfectly suited to his artistic personality. Clara Bow
And you will see a more sincere, more glittering, as you've never seen any film of the past.
(Merry Christmas to all! And Happy Birthday Armando! This post is dedicated to him ... Thank you for everything!)
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