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Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess

  • TV Movie
  • 2012
  • 59m
IMDb RATING
7.6/10
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Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess (2012)
Documentary

A documentary looking at the life, films, and troubled times of America's first sex symbol, screen actress Clara Bow, featuring interviews and archive footage. It takes a look at why she is ... Read allA documentary looking at the life, films, and troubled times of America's first sex symbol, screen actress Clara Bow, featuring interviews and archive footage. It takes a look at why she is considered the 'Lost Screen Goddess'.A documentary looking at the life, films, and troubled times of America's first sex symbol, screen actress Clara Bow, featuring interviews and archive footage. It takes a look at why she is considered the 'Lost Screen Goddess'.

  • Director
    • Tony Dimond
  • Stars
    • Clara Bow
    • Haydn Gwynne
    • David Stenn
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.6/10
    66
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    • Director
      • Tony Dimond
    • Stars
      • Clara Bow
      • Haydn Gwynne
      • David Stenn
    • 1User review
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    Clara Bow
    Clara Bow
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • …
    Haydn Gwynne
    Haydn Gwynne
    • Self - Narrator
    • (voice)
    David Stenn
    David Stenn
    • Self - Biographer
    Leonard Maltin
    Leonard Maltin
    • Self - Critic
    Kevin Brownlow
    • Self - Film Historian
    Baby Peggy
    Baby Peggy
    • Self - Former Child Star
    • (as Diana Serra Cary)
    William Wellman Jr.
    William Wellman Jr.
    • Self - Actor and Film Historian
    Mark Bridges
    Mark Bridges
    • Self - Costume Designer
    Elinor Glyn
    Elinor Glyn
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Richard Arlen
    Richard Arlen
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Louise Brooks
    Louise Brooks
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Rex Bell
    Rex Bell
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    Paula Garrett
    • Self - Walking Box Ranch
    Ralph Edwards
    Ralph Edwards
    • Self - Presenter Truth or Consequences
    • (archive footage)
    • (voice)
    Jacob Kazanjian
    • Self - Former Psychiatric Aide
    Jackie Bell Chavez
    • Self - Daughter in Law
    Greg Shagohian
    • Self - Neighbour
    Bérénice Bejo
    Bérénice Bejo
    • Peppy Miller
    • (archive footage)
    • Director
      • Tony Dimond
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    Straightforward Retelling of a Reclusive Star's Life

    Born into poverty in Brooklyn, Clara Bow had a troubled childhood with a schizophrenic mother and an alcoholic father who raped her when she was a teenager. Without any formal education or dramatic training, her real break came when she won a "search for a star" competition with the prize of a supporting role in a silent film. From then on she went from strength to strength; despite her lack of training, she had one of those photogenic faces that loved the camera, and by her mid- twenties she was attracting more mail than the entire population of an American small town.

    Yet her meteoric rise had its downsides too. Never one to hide her personality under a bushel, Bow was quite open about her life, leading a hedonistic existence that involved several love-affairs as well as an over-indulgence in alcohol. During the "Flapper" era of the Twenties this was considered acceptable behavior, but after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the subsequent Depression, attitudes changes. Bow's lifestyle came under increasing critical scrutiny, culminating in a series of scurrilous articles making totally false allegations about her. She made her last film in 1933 at the age of only twenty-eight.

    Thereafter she retired to become a recluse, at first living with her husband on a ranch near Las Vegas; and when he died of a heart- attack, moving to a modest bungalow in a suburb of Los Angeles. Her films were virtually forgotten; and it was only when she died in 1965 at the comparatively young age of 60 that people remembered her.

    Tony Dimond's film told a traditional rags to riches to rags story, but suggested that Clara Bow did not really regret anything she had done. Perhaps the most telling reminiscences were contributed by former child star Diana Serra Cary (aka Baby Peggy), who talked about her generosity of spirit in front of the cameras and on the film-set, traits that were not always evident off-screen.

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    • Release date
      • December 30, 2012 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
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      • English
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