Clara Bow

Clara Gordon Bow (Brooklyn, 1905 - July 29, Los Angeles, 27 september 1965) was an American actress and sex symbol.



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[hide] *1 Biography  ==Biography[ Edit] == Clara Bow was born in Brooklyn and was the only surviving child of a dysfunctional family with mental illnesses and physical and mental abuse. Her mother had previously given birth to two children who died at birth. She hoped that this would happen even with Clara.
 * 2 Filmography
 * 2.1 silent films
 * 2.2 Sound films
 * 3 external links

She was a real ' boys girl ' and played on the street only with boys. Her best boyfriend Johnny burned alive in her presence, when she was only 10 years old. If they ever had to cry in movies, she thought to Johnny.

Clara's mother Sarah Gordon was a prostitute who suffered from epilepsy. Sarah Gordon often had public affairs with firemen. Bows father was almost never home. And if he was home, he usually hit his wife and daughter. He also raped Clara when she was 15 years old.

Clara quit school when she was just 7 years old and wanted a career in the film industry. She won the Fame and Fortune contest in 1921 and her prize was a role in the film Beyond the Rainbow (1922). However, her scenes were deleted from the film. Were to see them again when the film was restored.

Clara's parents encouraged her career not, especially not her mother. She found that acting was for prostitutes and wanted to kill when she still wanted to be actress Clara. Clara was on a night and saw her mother her back curved with a knife in her hand. Clara shut himself up in a wardrobe and remained there until her grandmother got home. Because of this incident, she had the rest of her life suffering from memory loss.

Clara got Beyond the Rainbow after a supporting role in Down to the Sea in Ships. Then, she was selected as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars of 1924. They played mostly small roles in movies and felt guilty by her mother's disapproval. When she heard that her mother had died 1923, she gave her acting career the debt.

Clara was discovered by a man who offered her a screen test in Hollywood . One aanvankerlijk saw no talent in her, but thought after this test here otherwise. One of Clara's many talents was that they could cry on command.

Despite her small roles in movies, was Clara always the highlight of the film. Yet it seemed they never get leading roles. She stood there known to always be polite on the set. When they had enough money, she paid her father also the move to Hollywood. He appeared, however, always drunk on her sets and flirted with young girls.

In 1925, the film was released The Plastic Age . The film was one of the biggest successes that the studio where she worked had ever known and Clara was a big star. They also became engaged with her colleague Gilbert Roland. The engagement lasted not long.

Then to see was Clara in Mantrap. The film was directed by Victor Fleming, who was also in love with Clara, despite the fact that he was twice as old as she. She had an affair with him when they were still betrothed to Roland.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1927 was her best-known movie ever released; It. By this film, she was a real sex symbol. They then got Affairs with many men, including Béla Lugosi, Gary Cooper, Gilbert Roland, John Wayne, Victor Fleming andJohn Gilbert.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Soon her affairs, her addiction to alcohol and drugs and her mental instability is a major problem for her studio. Although many thought that her cheap appearance was a shame, she was still praised for her polite and cheerful personality and enthusiasm.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Her next film, Wings, got the world's first Academy Award for best picture. Clara's popularity sank below. When the sound film popped up, were fans disappointed about her accent.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">After being in 1932 with Rex Bell married, withdrew to be with him to found a family. The couple had two sons; Tony Beldon (1934, changed his name later in Rex Anthony Bell, Jr.) and George Beldon, Jr. (1938). In1949 it became clear that Clara was schizophrenic . Her husband later sent her to a psychiatric facility. Clara Bow died in 1965 of a heart attack. ==Filmography<span class="mw-editsection" len="327" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Silent films<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Sound films<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===