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In 1944, when she was still in her 30s, Clara Bow tried to commit suicide, leaving only a note. Its contents were heartbreaking. In it Bow confessed that she preferred eternal slumber to the idea of always being a public figure, and every day seemed unbearable to her. There’s always a price for stardom, and it’s never pretty. The biggest misconception about Bow is that her career foundered with the coming of sound because her Brooklyn accent was too ugly. She made several talkies, in fact, starting with The Wild Party, a big success that was directed by her friend and champion Dorothy Arzner. In truth, Bow’s physical and mental health issues (she had schizophrenia, like her mother) were exacerbated by the stresses of her fame, particularly the fallout from her notorious tell-all memoir in Photoplay and a lurid lawsuit brought by her former secretary. In 1925, Clara started a scandalous sensation. That year, she went out of her house in hand-painted legs, a phenomenon that soon women all over California were taking up.

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For all Sales categories excluding Arms & Armor, Coins and Medals, Motor Cars, Motorcycles, Wine & Whisky By joining you will gain full access to thousands of Videos, Pictures & Much More, with absolutely No Ads or Popups. Bow truly loved movies, but her adoration came from an incredibly dark place. She had a miserable home life and few friends, yet films were different. When she watched them, she said, “For the first time in my life I knew there was beauty in the world.” Bow's friends wondered what Tui was possibly getting out of the marriage. Tui did complain about Creepy Robert's insatiable appetite in bed, but she put up with it. That's because she was hiding a more scandalous motive than money. Tui wanted to be closer to Clara...since she was actually in unrequited love with the star. Of course she was, have you seen the girl? Ah yes, the "It" Girl. I'd forgotten that she'd done any nude work. She also appeared nude, albeit semi-underwater, in the film "Hula". I see that mrcheese has already posted a pic from that film.The Production Code basically kept nudity out of American movies for approximately the next thirty years. The Legion did not begin to lose its grip on Hollywood until the early sixties when an unfinished 1962 film, Something’s Got to Give, was to have taken on the Code by featuring a skinny dip from Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn’s death temporarily scotched the snake of mainstream nudity, but other films soon took up the baton. There was Jayne Mansfield in Promises, Promises in 1963. Cleopatra featured a modest look at Liz Taylor’s bum in 1963, and The Pawnbroker managed to sneak fairly substantial nudity into arthouse theaters in 1964 despite a “condemned” rating from the Legion. Despite these efforts and a rapidly liberalizing culture in the mid-sixties, it was not until 1968 that the Production Code was officially replaced with the first version of the current rating system.

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The shift from silent films to talkies was an enormous sea change in Hollywood that drowned many a star—but contrary to popular belief, our gritty Clara survived and thrived. Audiences still loved her, Brooklyn accent or not, and her new films were hit. Yet the new talkie format still took a huge toll on the actress… After the release of Down the Sea in Ships, Bow became an absolute sensation— but that fame came with a high price. Up until this point, Bow had been working in her hometown of New York, but Hollywood soon offered her a contract. In the blink of an eye, Bow left everything to travel west to Tinseltown…and she soon found out it was a snake pit. But I don’t think I’ve ever seen an image of Pola Negri that was attributed to him. But I could be wrong. They were both around at the same time, and Hollywood’s greatest stars of the Golden Age were taken by the most revered photographers in Hollywood, which included Ernest A. Bachrach and Alfred Cheney Johnston.When it came to Lugosi, Bow took her bad girl image into overdrive. The pair were obsessed with each other, but as two Hollywood hotties, they also saw other people. Lugosi must have gotten confused about this arrangement, because during this time he married... not Clara Bow. In 1929, Lugosi tied the knot with wealthy socialite Beatrice Weeks. This did not end well.

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Steve Allen was a genius pioneer of the early television talk show format, but ultimately he was fairly conventional. The way I’d put it is Steve Allen was a genius pioneer of conventional television talk shows while Ernie Kovacs was a genus pioneer of unconventional television talks shows. Mind you, Kovacs was too unconventional to be mainstream and it’s possible Allen could have pioneered similar ideas but simply realized they wouldn’t attract large audiences. When Bow decided to act, it all came together with frightening ease…at least at first. When she was just 16 years old, she entered the annual “Fame and Fortune” Brewster magazine contest, which pitted hopefuls against each other in a series of screen tests and promised film work in the winner's future. Naturally, Bow won—but then came the hard part. There is a documentary on Maskelyne on Youtube if anybody is interested but somehow the BBC found a way to make even this fairly boring. When Sarah was just a teenager, she fell from a second-story window and was never the same again. She suffered seizures and psychosis from the ensuing head injury, and Bow grew up learning how to control her mother during these fits. A young child taking care of a parent is never a good thing, but then the situation took a truly bitter turn.ALL BIDDERS MUST AGREE THAT THEY HAVE READ AND UNDERSTOOD BONHAMS' CONDITIONS OF SALE AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THEM, AND AGREE TO PAY THE BUYER'S PREMIUM AND ANY OTHER CHARGES MENTIONED IN THE NOTICE TO BIDDERS. THIS AFFECTS THE BIDDERS LEGAL RIGHTS. Clara's Bow’s final public performance was not on the silver screen, but on the radio. For all that she hated "talkies," she made a cameo as the “mystery voice” in the 1947 radio show Truth or Consequences in their “Mrs. Hush” contest. What a fitting final curtain call for a performer who got her start in a national competition.