A Look Back at Clara Bow, the Vivacious Hollywood Starlet Who Defined the 1920s

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The Wild Party, directed by Dorothy Arzner, is actually an enjoyable film, touching in its depiction of female camaraderie at a women's college. (The invention of the boom microphone sometimes is attributed to Arzner, who needed to follow the free-ranging Bow around the set.) And Bow continued to perform above the level of her material in schlock like 1930's True to the Navy, which reteamed Bow with Fredric March, and does contain the small pleasure of Bow shimmying and singing along to the radio.

Like fellow Jazz Age survivors the Fitzgeralds, the hyperextended Bow was destined for a crack-up. Retiring from pictures, she lived as a recluse, in and out of sanitariums until her death in 1960. The full measure of Bow's flaming youth had been sacrificed to the camera — and not for nothing. While so many screen actors of her era appear today as elegant waxworks, Bow still fairly jumps off the screen, a vivid avatar of Young America.

Clara Bow circa 1926
Clara Bow circa 1926

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CALL HER SAVAGE: CLARA BOW HITS THE SCREEN | Billy Wilder Theater | Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Wstwd. | Jan. 4-Feb. 10 | cinema.ucla.edu/programs

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Shannon Kelley
Shannon Kelley

Don't miss the newly restored MANTRAP (1926), which will premiere at the UCLA Festival of Preservation this March.  Or any of the several Bow features yet to unspool in January and February.  

jsmog
jsmog

Actually Ms. Bow died the day before my birthday, 27 September 1965.

 
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