Tag: Silent Film

• The Beauty of Your Youth: Clara Bow Receives a Kindness.

  A while back I wrote of one tragic sex zombie, and referred to Clara Bow as having written the script of that now all-too-familiar scenario:  Girl from unsettled family with ambitious/crazy mother and absent/worse father ends up in Hollywood and ignites the screen.  She becomes the hot ticket in town, going through the A-list men like […]

  Dana D. Burnell

  October 14, 2022

  Golden Age Hollywood, Sex Symbols

  Clara Bow, Gilbert Roland, Pre-Code, Silent Film