Nude Shadow, 1920S. /Nthe Shadow Of Actress Clara Bow In The Nude. Photographed In The 1920S. Poster Print by (18 x 24)

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Bow lived her life to the limit, and became a tabloid staple during the heady years of her fame. She had no problem carousing late into the night and then rolling into the film set in the early hours of the morning, taking whatever lover she pleased along the way. Some of her most famous flings included the heartthrob actors Gary Cooper and Gilbert Roland.

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Eventually, Bow’s scraping and begging paid off…sort of. She landed a role in 1921’s Beyond the Rainbow. Desperately eager to please, Bow nailed her five scenes and even managed to cry real tears—a feat many actresses today can’t even match. But when she sat down to watch the film, she was utterly devastated.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? An entire book was written on Jasper Maskelyne called The War Magician. The book has been optioned for a film and like a lot of films it’s been in development hell. The interesting thing about this film though is there was a press release in 2015 announcing Benedict Cumberbatch would play Maskelyne. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a press release on a film that was obviously still in development that mentioned casting. The closest I’ve seen was that Manson Film that was apparently all a scam. 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. Bow starred in the first movie to ever win Best Picture at the Oscars. That would be Wings in 1927. The director William Wellman described her as “mad and crazy, but WHAT a personality!” His choice of equipment might seem odd by the standards of today, even using the fairly common Graflex Speed Graphic 3 1/4 X 4 1/4 employed by Dorothea Lange, Edward Steichen and others during that period. But he also extensively used a Century 11×14 camera and glass plates, plus eventually the 6x6cm Zeiss Ikon, and 120 roll film. However, he stubbornly continued to use his massive 11×14-inch view camera well into the late 1940’s and early 1950’s. And he continued to use it with a 2 inch Steinheil lens. While it would be a rare find, similar types of lenses are now available from Lomography in their Daguerreotype Achromat series. Although, honestly, I’ve seen absolutely phenomenal clone images out of a Canon 5D using those Lomography Achromat lenses.

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Bow might have looked sweet, but you best not cross her. In 1924, she moved into a house with her father and—gasp—her boyfriend at the time, Hollywood cameraman Arthur Jacobson. This did not please her studio executive B.P. Schulberg. Schulberg fired Jacobson for leading his starlet into scandal...and Bow’s unhinged reaction was one for the ages.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. Bow’s family life gave new meaning to the word “dysfunctional.” Her father, though intelligent, was aimless and usually absent. However, he had a reason to dread home. As Clara once admitted, "I do not think my mother ever loved my father.” Even worse, "He knew it.” However, this was far from the worst thing Clara’s mother would do. 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. A huge treasure trove of extremely artistic full-nude and semi-nude full-figure studio photos with all the glass-plate negatives were found stored at a farm near Oxford, Connecticut, where he had lived since the 1940’s. Most were showgirls from the Ziegfeld Follies, plus a great storehouse of both aspiring and known actors and actresses. Bow had plenty of charm, but her manners were atrocious. High-class Hollywood society considered her and her brassy ways “dreadful” because she refused to bow down to them or their old rules. As Bow once retorted, "They are snobs. Frightful snobs ... I'm a curiosity in Hollywood. I'm a big freak, because I'm myself!"

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Bow dealt with her trauma in a tragic way—that is, she didn’t deal with it at all. When she tried to talk about “The Butcher Knife Episode” once in an interview, she cut herself off, saying, “but I can't tell you about it. Only when I remember it, it seems to me I can't live.” No wonder Clara Bow lived like she was running out of time.Clara was always a charmer with men, but she was also deeply damaged. Half her playmates nursed crushes on the young Bow, and one of her best school friends friends even tried to kiss her. Bow’s response? She said she was “horrified and hurt” by the gesture. Well, can you blame her for having a such a maladjusted view of affection? 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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In truth, Bow never liked talkies, calling them “stiff and limiting” and complaining that “you lose your cuteness.” She also never got comfortable with them. One day on the set of her talkie The Wild Party, she had to endure retake after retake because she couldn’t stop nervously glancing at the microphone above her. And that wasn’t all… Clara was different in more ways than one, but nothing was as unique as her rise to stardom. In the 1920s, studio systems ruled the roost, and actresses often rose or fell on the power of studio publicity sprees. Not so with Bow, who functioned on a personal contract with Schulberg. As fellow starlet Louise Brooks put it, Bow “became a star with nobody’s help.” 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…

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The film clip doesn’t offer much to see, but still is risqué and, therefore, very typical of 1930-34 movies.