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Clara Bow was perhaps one of the first silver screen sex sirens, flaunting her sexuality in an age when such behaviour was still shocking. She was a pioneer of sexual freedom long before the likes Marilyn Monroe.

Born and raised in a Brooklyn tenement, Clara's childhood was largely unhappy. Her mother was mentally ill and had never even registered Clara’s birth, in the belief that they both might die during the heat wave of that year.

In an effort to escape her daily life, Clara focused all her attention on the new world of the movies. Always on the lookout for film contests, Clara entered and won a feature in Motion Picture Magazine. Clara’s prize was to be a part in a motion picture, ‘Beyond the Rainbow’

Despite her performance later being cut, Clara picked up favourable early reviews and went on appear in a low-budget whaling movie, ‘Down to the Sea in Ships’.

Clara made 25 film features within two years, and became famous as the "It" girl of the roaring 1920s, a flapper par excellence. She became a symbol of the flapper age and her bobbed hair look was soon imitated by women all across America.

While living the life of a movie star, however, she became the victim of numerous scandals. As her gambling debts and unpaid taxes mounted, she quickly fell from grace with the public. With the advent of sound, her career ground to a halt.

In 1931, she eloped with cowboy star, Rex Bell and retired fully from the screen in 1933. Her latter years were plagued by weight problems and mental instability.

Clara died in 1965.

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Beyond The Rainbow 1922
Down To The Sea In Ships 1922
Enemies Of Women 1923
The Daring Years 1923
Grit 1923
Maytime 1923
Lost 1923
Black Oxen 1923
Poisoned Paradise 1923
Daughters Of Pleasure 1924
Helen's Babies 1924
Wine 1924
Empty Hearts 1924
This Woman 1924
Black Lightning 1924
The Adventurous Sex 1924
Capital Punishment 1924
My Lady's Lips 1925
Eve's Lover 1925
Kiss Me Again 1925
Free To Love 1925
Two Can Play 1926
Mantrap 1926
Get Your Man 1927
Paramount On Parade 1930
Call Her Savage 1932
Hoopla 1933
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