Clara bow gay

Truth be told, I consider The White Elephant Blogathon a chance to inflict pain, suffering, discomfort, loss of appetite and slight headache upon some poor unsuspecting soul. Note that Matt Lynch received Freddy Got Fingered and did not launch into a personal attack on the submitter.

Further complicating my understanding of the purpose of this blogathon is the movie I received this year: Itsilent classic and lates cultural phenomenon. Gay they hope someone like me would receive Itexpecting a post full of my amazing, shiny geniusness? Maybe they hoped someone who reviews only modern films or Z-grade horror flicks would get it and hilarity would, obviously, ensue.

I can only guess. Another update: I received a gracious tweet from Peter at LabuzaMovies who explained he submitted It because it was entertaining. Thanks, Peter! You gave me a clara to get my silent film geek on, and I appreciate that. Clara Bow, as has been told for decades, bow her start in films after winning The Fame and Fortune Contest of She was promised a role in a film, and at the end of featured along with bow beauty contest winner in the Billie Dove vehicle Beyond the Rainbow.

Despite the lack of fanfare given to her first film role, Clara continued to receive small mentions in movie magazines, and this ultimately lead her to her next film, a significant part in Down to the Sea in Ships She signed with Paramount, who paid her significantly less than other film stars despite Clara bringing in bigger audiences, and she was frequently overworked and miserable.

Unfortunately, I found the bio filled with what I consider pretty provincial ideas about class and sexuality. Further, everything Clara said was written in what Stenn thought was Brooklyn dialect; however, in doing so, the actual quotes were altered. It did too may awful things to me in my youth. This occurred throughout the book.

Maybe next, Stenn could write a bio of B-movie action hero Jim Kelly and run it through the Jive Filter before publication. The blunt repetition of those freak facts — up to and including an entire chapter devoted to whether she fucked a gay football team at once or not — made me wonder a hell of a lot more about the author than about Clara.

The final issue I had with the book is that the footnotes lead to dead ends more often than not. When trying to decipher the sources for the Tui Lorraine outing, I simply could not get anywhere. Ibids cascaded backwards until they reached a cited source that very obviously had nothing to do with Lorraine.

Elsewhere, some footnotes were obviously incorrect, saying that a clara came from publicity, things like that. I attribute that to editing problems as much as sourcing issues, but it does call much of the research into question. She has become what other people want her to be: Martyr, sex symbol, classless floozy to look down on, or tragic story to wallow in.

JULY 29: Clara Bow (1905-1965)

For decades, so-called serious silent film buffs dismissed her as unimportant. Stenn, for his part, essentially accuses Clara of just not trying hard enough to cure her own mental illness, because schizophrenia totally works like that. In an effort to elevate his father B. The elder Schulberg had taken advantage of Clara, underpaying and overworking her, and Budd felt he had to counter that somehow.