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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Clara Bow
		Bow was born in a tenement in Brooklyn, New York, the only surviving child of a dysfunctional family afflicted with mental illness, poverty, and physical and emotional abuse.
		Bow was praised for her vitality and enthusiasm — Adolph Zukor once said that "She danced even when her feet weren't moving" — though her roles rarely allowed her to show much range.
		Clara was able to live off her earnings as a film star and spent her last years living in a modest house, being attended to by a nurse, and living off an estate worth about $500,000 at the time of her death in 1965, according to a biography by David Stenn.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Clara_Bow (2050 words)

	Clara Bow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Clara Bow (born July 29, 1907[1]; died September 27, 1965) was an American actress and sex symbol, best known for her film work in the 1920s and early 1930s.
		Bow was born in a tenement in Brooklyn, New York, the only surviving child of a dysfunctional family afflicted with mental illness and Dickensian poverty and physical and emotional abuse.
		Consequently, Bow was dubbed "The It Girl" — "It" being a euphemism for sex-appeal, as defined by the British novelist Elinor Glyn.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clara_Bow (1476 words)

	Clara Bow at Classic Movie Stars
		Bow made her film debut in 1922, in Beyond the Rainbow, but her scenes were cut before the release.
		Bow was also representative of the general relaxing of moral standards that occurred right after World War I. Her style of sophisticated sexuality enjoyed wide appeal.
		Bow was one of the many young stars who had become rich and famous almost overnight, and like many others she could not handle the money or the fame.
	www.angelfire.com /ri2/rebeccastjames/clarabow.html (910 words)

	Gadfly Online.
		Clara was still a kid of 16 when her brief but unforgettable performance as a sad-eyed, ready-fisted stowaway in the whaling saga Down to the Sea in Ships (1922) caught the eye of Preferred Pictures (soon to be Paramount) producer B.P. Schulberg.
		Clara Bow lived out the rest of her years as a total recluse, a ghost of Hollywood's shameful, silent past.
		Clara Bow was watching an old Gary Cooper western when her heart stopped on September 26, 1965.
	www.gadflyonline.com /archive/MarchApril01/archive-clarabow.html (3357 words)

	Silent Era : DVD : Clara Bow: Discovering the 'It' Girl (1999) Review
		The documentary Clara Bow: Discovering the It’ Girl (1999) was produced for Turner Classic Movies by Hugh Munro Neely and Elaina B. Archer, and originally was released on VHS by Kino International as part of their Bow series.
		Also noted is The Coast Reporter’s smear campaign against Clara Bow (pursued obviously to boost the circulation of the tiny southern California newspaper), Clara’s intimidation by the sound film microphone, and Bow’s release from her Paramount contract in 1931 at age 25.
		Clara’s growing distain for public life, Rex’s 1944 campaign for Nevada state senator and his later election as Nevada’s Lt. Governor is sketched as giving rise to Bow’s attempted suicide in the early 1950s.
	www.silentera.com /DVD/claraBowDiscItGirlDVD.html (570 words)

	Clara Bow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Bow's acting was considered so amateurish that her scenes were cut before the film was released.
		Bow's former secretary sold her story to the tabloids, telling wild tales of Bow's frequent and enthusiastic sexual trysts with dozens of Hollywood suitors.
		Bow retired from films in 1933, when she was just 26 years old, and went to live with Bell on his Walking Box Ranch, west of Searchlight, NV.
	www.cemeteryguide.com /bow.html (613 words)

	Salon Arts & Entertainment \| America's red-hot sweetheart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Clara's father put her mother in an insane asylum, where she died while her daughter was appearing in a picture.
		Bow's story contains two grand retreats: one from moviemaking, when a combination of microphone fright and scandal fatigue made her give up on Hollywood in the early talkie days, and the other from public and even family life, when Bell became a Republican politician.
		Bow is the woman as sexual being; there was an innocence to her that saved her from being immediately condemned.
	www.salon.com /ent/col/srag/1999/06/10/bow (1472 words)

	Classic Movie Stars: Clara Bow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Clara Gordon Bow was born in Brooklyn, New York on July 29 th 1905.
		She was born into poverty and violence, and her own mother even tried to slit Clara’s throat when she found out that her daughter was trying to get into the movies.
		Clara had suffered during her childhood, and the fact that she happily talked about her childhood in Hollywood actually made her unpopular with others, who preferred to hide away their poor or disturbed childhoods.
	www.classicmoviestars.org /clara-bow.html (278 words)

	© Clara Bow - Silent Movie Star - goldensilents.com
		Clara's first screen nickname was "The Brooklyn Bonfire." Her film "Mantrap" (1926) made her a star, and made her rich for the first time in her life, although she continued to live in a modest bungalow and not a mansion, unlike other stars of the era.
		However by 1931 Clara was growing tired of scandals and the fast party life of Hollywood, and she married cowboy actor Rex Bell and had two sons, settling down to ranch life and domesticity.
		However Clara Bow's sparkling movie performances, particularly in her silent films of the roaring 20's, continue to capture the imagination of new generations of film fans; her legacy lives on.
	www.goldensilents.com /stars/clarabow.html (428 words)

	Clara Bow's Biography
		But she set out with a mission--her mother adamently said that she didn't want Clara to be an actress...but Clara kept on and sent a picture (a rickety home taken photo her father gave her money for) of herself to a contest--the prize: a film role.
		When she was nineteen, Clara was honored by Hollywood as a few selection of young actors--each to be accompanied by their parents.
		But it was Clara's role as the proclaimed "IT" girl that will make her name go down in history--not Clara Bow perhaps, but rather, as THE IT GIRL.
	www.geocities.com /hollywood/theater/4554/cbio.html (718 words)

	Clara Bow - Early Hollywood Wild Woman
		But from the middle 1920s to the early '30s, Clara Bow was a force to be reckoned with - a natural force, like a hurricane or tidal wave.
		But Clara's frantic flapper act, both on and offscreen, was fueled by tragedy and a life whose melodrama rivaled any fiction.
		With Clara branching out into more dramatic roles, the potential was there for the rebirth of her career, this time as a serious actress in the new talkie medium.
	www.francesfarmersrevenge.com /stuff/archive/oldnews/clarabow.htm (942 words)

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		Furthermore, in a skein of injustices, Clara was denied royalties by Paramount when her talkies were later licensed to television.
		Clara may well have been the only superstar of her time who had no one to protect her from these monstrously selfish men.
		Clara had her Paramount troubles, but is is intriguing to consider if she would have been better off under the tutelage of MGM and Louis B. Mayer.
	members.tripod.com /~clara_bow/korcz.html (870 words)

	To posterity
		Clara Bow with a voice is by no means unfit for movie stardom, but that tough, torch-song voice generates a very different creature from the one who seemed able to activate mythy magic just by the way she looked at people or things".
		Clara's last two films, Call Her Savage(1932) and Hoopla (1933) proved to be very successful and financially rewarding for her.
		Clara was born into poverty, depression and abuse, which inadvertently doomed her to a life of excruciating loneliness - a loneliness that prevailed even in the company of fans, lovers and her beloved boys.
	www.clarabow.net /biography/biography.html (4074 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Movies (Clara Bow Peep) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Simply put, Bow was the hottest actress of the late 1920s (until silent films were supplanted by "talkies"), the girl with the "heart-shaped face, an hour-glass figure, and thick auburn hair dyed a flaming orange-red." The film that made her a household name was 1927's
		Bow's domineering father objected to her Saturday evening revelries, however, so she took to entertaining groups of players in her room at the infamous mansion-turned-hotel known as the Garden of Allah in on Sunset Blvd. But even then, the main events were dancing and early morning swims in the hotel pool.
		Clara's father soon put a stop to these festivities as well, and her contact with the USC football team was reduced to hosting an annual dinner for them at her home.
	www.snopes.com /movies/actors/clarabow.htm (667 words)

	The Biography Channel - Clara Bow Biography
		Clara Bow was perhaps one of the first silver screen sex sirens, flaunting her sexuality in an age when such behaviour was still shocking.
		Her mother was mentally ill and had never even registered Claraâs birth, in the belief that they both might die during the heat wave of that year.
		Clara made 25 film features within two years, and became famous as the "It" girl of the roaring 1920s, a flapper par excellence.
	www.thebiographychannel.co.uk /biography_home/1000:0/Clara_Bow.htm (344 words)

	Clara Bow
		While her father was off getting drunk, her mother would occasionally lock little Clara in a closet, while she entertained "uncles" After Clara began showing an interest in acting, her mother (who equated all actresses with whores) tried to kill her with a kitchen knife.
		Clara's Real downfall from film was the coming of sound, She never could get used to the microphone.
		For the rest of her life Clara continued to be plagued by Insomnia, and eventually Agoraphobia.
	www.acronet.net /~condor7/ClaraBow.html (748 words)

	Clara Bow photo
		Bow's lively spirit and energy on the screen served as an excellent counterpoint to Joyce's cultured demeanor and was perfect for the role.
		Bow epitomized the flapper of the Jazz Age, but the Jazz Age was gone, and,which the onset of the Depression, movies took on a whole different perspective, and Bow seemed somewhat of an anachronism.
		Clara Bow supposedly had affairs with many of her leading men such as Gilbert Roland and Gary Cooper, as well as one of her directors, Victor Fleming.
	www.silentsaregolden.com /photos/clarabowphoto.html (653 words)

	Clara Bow
		Clara Gordon Bow, later to become the personification of the Roaring Twenties, was born and brought up in near poverty in Brooklyn, New York, on July 29, 1905.
		Clara was confined to a sanatorium from time to time and was not allowed access to her loving sons very often.
		Here are Joan Crawford, Clara Bow and Marlene Dietrich portraying powerful women of questionable character.
	www.mutoworld.com /Bow.htm (719 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Clara Bow
		Bow's acting ability was innate, but her "talent for living" was acquired.
		Bow ended her film career in 1933,; in response to her loss of fans' affections and a career sagging under the weight of stock roles in uninspired films.
		Having discovered the Clara Bow formula, Paramount studio exploited it and her unequalled popularity by sticking her in a series of low budget, predictable vehicles co-starring unknowns.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200124 (1061 words)

	Clara Bow - Psychology Central (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Image:ClaraBow23.jpg Clara Bow (born July 29, 1905[1]; died September 27 1965) was an American actress and sex symbol, best known for her film work in the 1920s and early 1930s.
		Her mother, Sarah Gordon, a sometime prostitute who was mentally ill as well as an epileptic, was noted for her public and frequent affairs with local firemen.
		Robert reportedly raped Clara when she was a young girl.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Clara_Bow (1496 words)

	The Unknown Clara Bow
		With virtually no showings of her films on TV or elsewhere, it is difficult for anyone in the general public to really know who Clara Bow was or what she did.
		To those few silent movie fans who do know about Clara Bow, she is the "It" Girl---that red-headed one who took on legions of men, failed in talkies, and had several nervous breakdowns.
		In these roles Clara would be called upon to run the gamut of emotions, and she would always transcend any of the bad material she was given.
	www.gildasattic.com /clarabow.html (1684 words)

	The Wild Party
		According to legend, Arzner improvised by attaching the stationary microphone to a fishing pole to follow Bow around the set, giving her more freedom than had been possible, but often the mike had to be hidden, or her eyes would unconsciously drift towards it.
		Clara was never more charming than in "Hula" in the old days; perhaps she'll find the makings of a great play where the grass have it.
		Clara Bow was a frisky embodiment of twenties hedonism.
	www.moviediva.com /MD_root/reviewpages/MDWildParty.htm (1106 words)

	Silent Star of January
		Saucy and pert, Clara was dubbed 'The "It" Girl' by Elinor Glyn and chosen to star in the film version of Ms.
		While critically panned, Clara's performance was praised and made clear Clara's ability to make the screen come alive with her presence.
		Clara died in 1965, separated from her husband Rex Bell and in relative obscurity.
	www.csse.monash.edu.au /~pringle/silent/ssotm/Jan96 (424 words)

	Clara Bow: The It Girl
		On July 29, 1905, Clara Bow was born in the tenements of Brooklyn, New York.
		She was unhappily married to Robert Bow, a busboy who had been her only escape from an even bleaker family life.
		She would lock Clara in a closet whenever a customer was in the apartment.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/classic_actresses/62528 (464 words)

	Clara Bow
		Clara Bow was an actress of range and depth.
		Miss Bow just walks away with the picture from the moment she steps into camera range." It (Paramount, 1927) was the pinnacle of her youthful career and forever made her a household Hollywood goddess.
		Clara's career, and her potential revival, have suffered due to two diverse but crucial issues.
	www.library.csi.cuny.edu /dept/history/lavender/386/cbow.html (709 words)

	Clara Bow News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Even without Glyn bestowing the title on her, Clara Bow would still be known as the "it" girl of the 1920s, her firecracker personality and sexuality a highlight of the last years of silent films.
		Clara Bow, Antonio Moreno, William Austin, Jacqueline Gadsdon, Elinor Glyn, Gary Cooper.
		WWE pile-drives into S.F. The award for sexiest ukulele player in history was once an obvious choice: Clara Bow in It, hands down.
	www.topix.net /who/clara-bow (157 words)

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