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Bow confessed that her mother’s mental issues often made her “mean” to her, but as the years passed, Sarah's hostile episodes got worse and worse. When Bow told her mother as a teenager that she wanted to be an actress, Sarah’s response was utterly cold-blooded. She told Bow she would be “better off dead” than a Hollywood star, then made good on that disturbing promise... Bow was born into tragedy. Though she was her mother’s third daughter, Sarah had lost her two eldest children when they were babies, and doctors begged her not to get pregnant again or have another child for fear that this infant would perish too. Sarah didn’t listen—and the conditions of Clara’s birth couldn’t have been worse.

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When she was trying to make it in movies, the petite and cute Bow said casting directors always turned her down— for one disturbing reason. As she confessed, “I was too young, or too little, or too fat. Usually I was too fat.” Need I remind you that she was 16 years old at the time? Real nice, 1920s casting directors, real nice. The most interesting stories in the book were on a British magician named Jasper Maskelyne. He mainly served in North Africa and helped thwart Field Marshal Rommel from taking the Suez Canal and finally helped the cause in the decimation of Rommel’s army. He and his team were able to create a camouflage and through the use of the magician principal of misdirection he convinced Rommel that the British offensive led by General Montgomery would come from one direction, when it, in fact, came from the other direction. And, he did all of this in the flat and open desert.

68. She Abandoned Her Family

In front of the judge and jury, DeVoe related a series of stories about Bow’s fast and loose ways, many of them exaggerated. True or not, it didn’t matter. The tabloids started running infamously vicious stories about her, with outlandish claims of beastiality and other unsavory acts. After this blow, all her inner torment reached a terrifying climax. 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!” 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. 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. 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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Hollywood saw Bow in much the same way – she was the scruffy, lower-class kid whose behaviour jarred with the smart set and who had to work twice as hard as the others for her success. Louise Brooks, who saw through the workings of Hollywood just as keenly as Bow, said that she “became a star without nobody’s help”. She found friends more readily among the studio crew than the actors and directors who should have been her peers. A magazine quoted her as saying: “Mosta my friends’re ones I knew before I paid income tax.” Soon enough, Bow’s wild lifestyle caught up to her in a big way. The beautiful Bow was pretty indiscriminate about where she lay her head, and her habits always got her into hot water if her bed-mate was actually, uh, married. A woman even once brought Bow to divorce court for stealing her husband. And a bigger scandal was on the horizon… 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.

1. She Had a Bitter Beginning

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. 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!" 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.

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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… Just as Bow was beginning to be happy with Rex, she started showing disturbing signs. She almost never went out of the house and refused to socialize, but she also hated if her husband left her alone. By 1944, the truth was unavoidable. The starlet was suffering from deep and violent mental issues. That very year, Bow resorted to desperate measures... Appropriately chastised, Brownlow included a whole segment on Bow in his next documentary, sparking renewed interest in the lovely, effervescent, and indescribable Clara Bow. As it should be.

38. Her Manners Shocked People

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. Bow looked pert and cute, but don’t be fooled: She could be as arrogant as any other starlet. In fact, when she first decided she wanted to go into movies, she said it was because she would go to see an actress or actor in a performance and come away with the feeling that “I knew I would have done it differently.” In other words, “better.” was born in 1885 in New York. As he was born into a very affluent family of bankers, his turn to photography was a bit curious to everyone. He began by painting and illustration at the National Academy of Design in New York. However, his endeavors into making a living as a portrait painter were unsuccessful. Hence, although he had a bit of camera experience using a camera to record his painting subjects, he jumped into photography as his new creative medium. Although she had a turbulent relationship with her mother (more on that later), Bow never stopped being her biggest defender. After Sarah passed in 1923, Bow screamed at her other family members who had gathered for the funeral, calling them “hypocrites” for never caring about Sarah. If that weren't unhinged enough, Bow then tried to jump into her mother's grave. Clara Bow could be a devoted lover, only she sometimes showed her devotion in strange ways. When her friend Tui Lorraine faced exile from America and desperately needed a cash injection, Clara generously offered...her own gross father, Robert. Amazingly, Tui and Robert actually went through with it, but not without a handful of drama.