Clara Bow - She's Got It

[absolution12321]

there is this app that tells you your celeb look-alike and i got her.......... i am not that pretty!!!

[ManilaSyndicate]

Well done video, well edited and nice song.

One can see why she became a star. She looked good onscreen and she had a charm to her.

[AnnihilatingAngel]

No more gorgeous lady has ever lived.

[wwillsing]

clara bow andmary pickford what a combination

[1357Alison]

Clara Bow looked great

[kckc1975]

As I recall Clara Bow worked in a department store and found a baby on her doorstep.. It was remade with Ginger Rodgers and again with Debbie Reynolds. But It was sex appeal.

[paulj0557]

@TheAlienesque I agree. Any obsessive behavior is unnatural. In fact when one recognizes the symptoms, like excessive writing, it actually comes as a relief. Youtube's limited comment space was a good idea. It teaches us to be more effective writers anyway.

[deaddoc]

@TheAlienesque It took me half a minute to look up VD in British troops in WW1. You have no substantial argument here, and you did not take the time to find out how common, applied, or effective these early condoms were. I think I recall that washing them did not prevent uncircumcised penises from contracting infections, which made them problematic until throwaways were invented.

[deaddoc]

@TheAlienesque If you read everything here, you will know that my perspective is not only balanced, but far better informed than you guess. Your efforts seem to a aimed at satisfying yourself that nothing bad went on, then, and nothing unusual went on, or is going on now. That is merely the ostrich maneuver.

[deaddoc]

@TheAlienesque The use of rare, counter example in the effort to level all arguments is popular, but not a forensically sound method of debate. It appeals to the ignorant, emotional, senses, but not to information, applied critical review, or discussion. It is often used to justify a poor position and/or practice and common with politicians.

[SuperHeroMan411]

@deaddoc how may comments do you want to leave?

[deaddoc]

@SuperHeroMan411 This conversation occurred quite a while ago, but I don't regret it. I am writing a book, and sometimes I pry to get responses, make comments to get replies, stimulate for responses, etc. But this conversation led me to investigate the history of LSD, and man, did I get my socks knocked off! Worth every bit of criticism, insult, I ever or never got here or anywhere! I guess a superhero could make more comments, eh?

[deaddoc]

@TheAlienesque To make the blanket statement that sex and orgies have always been around is true, but proportion, proliferation of abherrant behavior and social effect has never been equal to the modern epic. Romann orgies were for example common amoung the wealthy, but not amoung the citizens, although sex was. That was the case until the 20th century, Hollywood, and the 60s Sexual Revolution. Generalities can usually be pulled apart with details.

[deaddoc]

@TheAlienesque The situation for UK troops was not markedly different either, except for the exception of the black troops I listed here. French troops used African troops, but had a problem with a huge mutiny. They left the lines, rushed into the camps and raped all the nurses, and vandalized the commissaries.

[deaddoc]

@TheAlienesque At a point, they had to treat all stevedores returned from a pass regardless of reports. So many of them would bolt off without leave that it made even that ineffective. They finally had to fence them in, so that they could control movement better. Yet, the high proportion remained. Prostitutes came down to docks and sex through fences actually occurred. Prophylactic packets were issued and used contained 32&1/2% calomel ointment, 1&1/2% carbolic acid, and 1% camphor.

[deaddoc]

@TheAlienesque Among my very large library, I have a very large medical book collection. One I have is The Medical Department of the US Army in The World War. I looked up this issue. Condoms were experimental and not even mentioned here. Prophylactic treatment was given after exposure, or even assumed exposure, but had to be done within a three hour window. Stats here bear out what I was saying Interesting is that black stevedore troops always had higher rates than white troops.

[deaddoc]

@TheAlienesque Sorry to have offended you. I rarely use that mode, but this is an important issue and there is nothing cool about the excesses and end of people like Clara Bow. I really recommend you find and read, "Culture of Narcissism." It will help you understand why the 20th century stands out historically. You can think whatever you wish about me, but I act. I am involved with fighting sex slavery, and I will speak out against drugs and harmful life choices every time.

[deaddoc]

@TheAlienesque You are making the mistake of using minority examples as proof of general trends. VD was a big problem in WW1 and WW2, despite the availability of condoms. Those early ones were awful. What has allowed civilization to stabilize and grow has been that dangerous behaviors like "orgies" were limited, while they have become almost bourgeois today, common. Hollywood was a source of the trend and still is the bad example and influence in an unprecedented historical manner.

[deaddoc]

@TheAlienesque My point is not unbalanced. The historic example of Rome, Babylon, Sodom, etc., are extremes in history always followed by collapse, chaos, and human tragedy on epic proportions. They are low points in human history, not the common line, and something for us to worry about today. AND today, we have many more types of drugs from other cultures in the world and synthetically invented. Heroin is the new trend for American kids We are living in a historically unprecedented time

[deaddoc]

@TheAlienesque There have been examples of pervasive social decline in the past like Rome, but in every case I can think of, the society collapsed, Rome most famously. Look at the product of Hollywood and the lives it chews up and spits out, like Clara Bow, and largely Charlie Sheen, Lindsy Lohan, etc. My whole point is htat while we may admire them as some sort of artists, we ought to revile the mechanisms that lead to the excesses that have clearly gone on to harm us all. Good luck.

[deaddoc]

@TheAlienesque My "Bull" comment was aimed at the idea that the excesses of the 20s was something good or liberating for women or people, not at you personally. If your skin is that thin, you won't survive on You tube posting boards long. I don't think my views are unbalanced at all, and you are stretching things to try to prove it. Rubber was a recent invention, so Condoms hadn't been around long and they weren't widely used anyway.

[deaddoc]

@TheAlienesque Oh, come on, I wasn't all that rude, it was aimed straight at you. But I am a history minor and have studied it all my life. You are not really right about orgies.  Just because we have a few historic examples of excess doesn't mean that it was historically common or on the pervasive scale of today. And that is the point. It is on a scale far beyond even the Roman example. I think perhaps you are a bit sheltered from reality.

[deaddoc]

@TheAlienesque I have visited the village of Condom, in France. Birth control has long been practiced, but the Pill made it much easier and convenient and caused the well known and discussed, Sexual Revolution.

[deaddoc]

@TheAlienesque One note on Kenneth Anger and Hollywood Babylon; Anger has been a pretty controversial figure himself. I found an important correction to his info on Clara Bow. Anger narrates a list of doings, including alleged weekend parties where she "did" the entire USC Football team continuously. I have seen that info vehemently rejecting that claim & Anger termed a slanderer. Still, the book is fairly valuable overall. There is a particular photo of Clara Bow in part dress negligee

[deaddoc]

@TheAlienesque Con't:  Learned for example that many states, particularly the south had penal institutions that made money using convicts as basically slave labor. How to get inmates? Arrest a man for anything, talk about zero justice. Have you seen the film, "I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang?" Don't miss it, it is a true story! The system created people like Clyde Barrow.

[deaddoc]

@TheAlienesque Remember now, Bonnie and Clyde had their crime spree in the early '30s, after the 20s and the flapper thing was faded with the crash of 29. B&C, like Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, and the like were old Western styled Mid West bandits, not mob types and not prohibition motivated.  They were motivated by the poverty and frustration of life in the Great Depression. The movie played up sexiness, but it wasn't historically. This type were fighting what they saw as the system.

[deaddoc]

@TheAlienesque I suppose it was inevitable that once people became affluent enough and survival was no longer in question, they began to wander morally and the call of rising pop culture took them away from what had made most people in the world happy and stable before for hundreds, thousands of years. Perhaps it's really an expression of human exhaustion and depletion?

[deaddoc]

@TheAlienesque Everything and everyone gets sold somehow, it seems. However, Punk came from LA too. Early surf music had some elements in it, The Who were certainly THE Proto Punk Band,and Mods sort of proto-punks. But I don't know of anyone who destroyed their instruments on stage before The Who.

[deaddoc]

@TheAlienesque I don't know if that is true. The invention and availability of the birth control pill began in 1960 and the so-called Sexual Revolution begins at that point. However, there were orphanages back then, and they were a cultural norm. But I don't think illegitimate kids were the main wards. My father once told me that he thought my grandfather made his bread and butter performing abortions in the 20s and 30s.

[deaddoc]

@TheAlienesque Bring back the Pet Rock.

[deaddoc]

@TheAlienesque I think that the huge scale of the universal decadence of today is unparalleled in history. Even in the flapper era, there were people who knew better. Today that number is very small in comparison. The book on the narcissistic nature of society today points out that narcissism makes the individual more corruptible, and delineates how that happened and is happening.

[deaddoc]

@TheAlienesque Your choice, but I think reinforcing the notion that people have always been trash is not helpful. Nor is it true. Humans are dichotomous, true, but it was relative and today the basest conclusions are made on the most flimsy evidences.

[deaddoc]

@TheAlienesque Yes, you can have just as much liberation/justice, as money can buy. The 20s was exploitative more than liberating, just as the 60s were. Some got rich off it, but no real gains in true human liberation. Some would argue that the 60s did, but what it really did was switch things around a bit and make being crazy, acting out, drugs, cultural debauchery, to the fore in culture. Reading a book, "Culture of Narcissism." Pretty devastating.

[deaddoc]

@TheAlienesque Well, rye ergot (fungus) has a sort of LSD in it, but it was not isolated, termed and used as such until the 1950s. But I will look into it, just in case. This is my historical research field currently, for a book. There were other natural psychotropic as I listed, but no pill form LSD. We'll see.

[deaddoc]

@TheAlienesque Well, I can tell you that in the 20s, it was bimbos too. My flapper grandmother was a runaway farm girl who had a fourth grade education. Seduction into debauchery is not the meaning of liberation, it is a deception. Thee was a good reason for the emergence of drug laws. Always has been always will be. As for fashion, truly, nothing is new under the sun. It all comes around again. Youth today is incredibly ignorant.

[deaddoc]

@TheAlienesque I would like to find that song. I am certain that you are mistaken regarding the LSD reference. Perhaps mescaline, peyote, or even psilocybin referral? It is a FACT that LSD was not in existence until the 50s when it was developed and used by the military as a potential "truth serum" and was rejected. Novelist Ken Kesey was a volunteer for an experimental program at Stanford University, while T Leary got a hold of surplus ingredients and did his own experiments.

[deaddoc]

@TheAlienesque 60s were and weren't. Some things were new. But everyone who looks closely at the SF scene will find that the Edwardian style came early as the clothes were cheap in 2nd hand stores. The Haight-Ashbury had all the Victorians with gas lights that some actually got working again. It was a partial revival, but went much further and worse. As for the liberating aspects of the 20s, BULL. It all caused more damage than good. Product; societal dissolution, social chaos today.

[deaddoc]

@TheAlienesque Con't; Lots of damage still felt in my dysfunctional family since then. Three of my uncles were alcoholics who died before their time, two by suicide, family disbursed, etc. But we just had to throw off all that Victorian stiffness and hypocrisy, didn't we? 60s did it even bigger and better. Oh goody. Everything is so much better today. More drugs ought to fix it all.

[deaddoc]

@TheAlienesque Cont; The influence of black jazz bands and the drugs they brought into the scene are relevant as well. My grandfather was a successful DC in Detroit. He was Henry Ford's only doctor in the 20s. He socialized with Ford and Edison. My grandmother, a plain woman from Missouri, went wild, abandoned her four sons to party. The step mom turned out to be a genuine sadist who tortured the boys. Not an uncommon scenario then.  Lots of damage for a bit of fun, eh?

[deaddoc]

@TheAlienesque No doubt some of the phenomena was plain rebellion, but it was fired by some fairly unplain things, such as Prohibition, that made rebellion and wild partying a popular underground scene. If you have ever seen a copy of Kenneth Anger's "Hollywood Babylon" or read any history of the era's popular culture, you will know that drugs like cocaine were prominent and many an innocent young woman debauched and ruined.

[GeorgeVreelandHill]

I love Clara Bow.

Thank you.

George Vreeland Hill

[SunshineSuperman0999]

Louise Brookes is my fav, then Cara.

[Dreetjuhh74]

I love this movie,..i'f got 28 of her movies,..this one is definitly in my top 3

[clarbow]

@Dreetjuhh74 You got 28?  I'm definitely interested in what you have

[Dreetjuhh74]

@clarbow I had a recount today,..but my filmdatabase on my computer said a total of 28 entry's.. But it seems that i have 25 movies,...and 2 trailers (the knees of the bees, Two can play) and 1 "Hollywood spotlight signing session"

I got it fixed right away.

[AddictedToMescaline]

My name's Clara and I was born on July 29th. Just like her. :)

[edwardconway27]

aaaa I love Clara Bow! :)

[ClarasBeau]

One of the hottest stars ever. She paved the way for all of the big-time female stars that followed. I just wish that AFI would have included her in their top 100... but they didn't... (sigh!)

[ddragonstyle]

I LOVE that you put this song with the movie. I always think of it when I see the film, although it's not in "It". She's adorable. Great job.

[stylerevitalizer]

Clara Bow was very sexy and cool! love her style!

[rdelacroix]

Man, just the way she looks from 0:29 and then 'softening' her gaze at 0:34...gosh, I really had an OMG! moment. She's so great!

[kirkconway]

I think she is the sexiest thing Ive seen in pic's, not these flash in the pan's I see nowday's,

I mean she'd blow away most women nin movies now day's,

warm personable, sensual, thick full hair,

I mae n what more would you want?

[philidor3]

@nutsaboutclara Great, but why didn't they show "plastic age"?

[acmgirl21]

you know who could totally play her in a biopic...Natasha Lyonne

seriously look her up she looks like her

[Fuliginosus]

Say, that's swell!

[MissGoldenDreams13]

I have to disagree with the song- Clara really WAS exquisite!

[AlrauneX]

I had to come back and watch this b/c I'm digging this song. I'm downloading a torrent now. <3

[TorontoEd7]

She darn sure does!

[superdavid002]

I mention Bow in The Celebrity Song.

[brizia8518]

grazie per averlo postato!

[MightySaturn5]

Beautiful....reminds me of Helena Bonham Carter

[vanquished100]

Read "Running Wild" by Stenn a great biog of Clara - its a sad story

[philidor3]

@vanquished100

Saddest is the way Stenn makes Clara a victim. Truth is, she was utterly competitive and reckless woman, and soon or later we all get sick and dies. What's sad about that? And the proposed rape? Read pages 265 and 354 and tell me if you fell a bit less sad. Bless.

[scmckinney1]

I have read David Stenn's book and got a different take. Clara was dumped on most of her life, and simply wanted to loved. Often in this quest she reached out to the wrong source, and as was stated in the book, was a victim waiting to be victimized. A recurring theme in the book was that Clara was left alone, despite her success and popularity. I wonder what would have been her last 15 years if Dr von Hagen or Rex Bell spent their efforts reinforcing her self worth instead of her isolation.

[philidor3]

@scmckinney1

Clara was born a bohemian artist, a genius who felt, taught and created outside the "box". As such, she certainly suffered a degree of loneliness. No remedy for that I'm afraid, with exception for her fathers company, of course. Stenn is a man with an issue. Victim girls. He pimps them for profit. Bow. Girl27. Harlow. Personally I stick to the old mainstream "gang bang" view of Clara. It's at least honest

[scmckinney1]

@philidor3 Did we read the same book? Clara was born dirt poor and got into movies as a way of getting out of her grim reality. Along the way she was told she was no good by Mom, Brooklyn girls, Shulberg, and the Hollywood elite. During her time her only perceived genius was packing in audience. I'm not sure she ever taught anybody, but was TOLD what formula movies she would have to make. Despite this, her talent shone through. Rex Bell should've given her happiness instead of politics.

[philidor3]

@scmckinney1 Poverty has nothing to do with a young woman's urge to expose her gift's, preferably as a movie-star. In our time, Gaga provides what Clara did 1923-1933, a saucy, Pippi Longstocking style freak b***t, on her own terms. At the climax of her Hollywood parties, Clara used to rip of her dress and fiercely dance au natural on a table. Poor Stenn, the eternal 8-year old. If "Poker face" & "Just dance" are Gagas only true hits the remaining "formulas" in the album are excused. Rex=a*s.

[scmckinney1]

@philidor3 I confess I don't know where you're coming from. Poverty and grim reality prodded Clara to get into movies both as a viewer and as an actress. I'll agree she thought outside the box, and that's what made her an icon. As for Runnin Wild, that has to be as complete a historical account there could be: 85 1st person interviews and scores of footnotes and sources. Are you confusing Clara the actress with her characters? Lady of Whims-Bohemian; Red Hair - rips off dress but not nude.

[philidor3]

@scmckinney1 Frederica Sagor adapted "plastic age" for "preferred", and attended a party at Clara's home at that time, 1925. Use Google Books to get a snippet from her memories. I agree Stenn has done a great research, but his interpretations, and that's the tricky part, are weak. Now I am nice. The character murder on Robert Bow is dishonest and unforgivable. 1988 Stenn's book was published, 1977 Morilla/Epstein wrote "the IT girl". Buy it used on Amazon. Broaden.

[scmckinney1]

@philidor3 Well, ya live and learn... however I also think I recall Stenn saying the Clara wasn't doing anything that wasn't being done all over Hollywood, only she never tried to hide it. The part I read in Sagor's book revealed that drunken parties were commonplace in Hollywood. She also reiterated that Clara was taken advantage of, which brings us back to the victimization aspect that you originally objected to. Despite stardom, Clara was always insecure susceptible to people hurting her.

[megchristie1]

Oh la la! I love this picture. It's lots o fun!

[EmilyyCecile]

I'm afraid I don't understand why she was being powdered.... was it to substitute for a bath .... perhaps make her paler... orr?

[spittysmom]

Women then were suppose to be pale. To be pale and fragile looking was most desirable. This look also implied one did not have to work for a living.

[deaddoc]

@spittysmom This isn't really true. White people used to know better than to expose themselves to the sun and so they covered up. Almost every Clara Bow movie shows here as a working girl , not a glamour puss. Plus, there were far more white people in the U.S. then, and fresh from Europe or one generation back. But today, women are certainly supposed to look anything but frail.

[deaddoc]

@spittysmom This isn't really true. White people used to know better than to expose themselves to the sun and so they covered up. Almost every Clara Bow movie shows here as a working girl , not a glamour puss. Plus, there were far more white people in the U.S. then, and fresh from Europe or one generation back. Women were more feminine back then and dressed like it. But today, women are certainly supposed to look anything but frail.

[bridgeviewproduction]

i love that part with the stuffed dog

[rbf100]

I do too. Interesting, but I understand that was not in the script. Clara improvised that scene. What a great actress!

[bubruns]

Bel video! Clara Bow è adorabile!!!!

[Shabannie]

I love Clara! Nice contribution!

------Ellen

[FlashDotDash]

Did anybody read in a magazine a few years ago about that girl who always wore old fashioned clothes and then went to a hypnotist to see who she was in a past life and she said she was "Clara Bow" although she had apparantly never heard of her?

X's

[DerBesteJohnny]

that sounds weird, but it would be funny if it was true. They could actually ask her something about claras life which barely anyone knows and if she knows that then... well you know what i mean!

[zitalee2]

@FlashDotDash is the article anywhere on the internet?

[RheingoldxxL]

Einfach Grossartig! ...

[DerBesteJohnny]

find ich auch!

[MildredDavisLloyd]

Awesome video! And I LOVE this song! Ever since I first heard it in the Clara Bow documentary "Discovering the 'It' Girl"! She was one of the best and still is!

[78timothy]

No doubt the music is the Six Jumping Jacks (Harry Reser) the Bass Sax and Sanella on Eb Alto sax gives it away not only that but also Tom Stacks as the vocalist. The Guitar lick starting at about 1:25 is also Reser playing. Realy great glip of Bow!! Stacks was also the Drummer on this record. Released by Brunswick.

[sharondagrape]

Love this tribute! Where can I get this version of the song?

[coopsgirl07]

I found the song on Rhapsody which is a digital music service. I'm not sure if you can find it on cd or not.

[sharondagrape]

Thanks! I don't have Rhapsody, but I found it on iTunes.

[MildredDavisLloyd]

Darn! I can't get music from Rhapsody or iTunes! I want this on a CD so bad!!!!!

[Impalamark64]

I try to watch every Clara Bow video. She's just the best! It's just one man's opinion, but I think she's the greatest actress, ever!

[53497678]

she is beautiful and her looks are timeless

[ligerzrule7]

Thanks SO much fod posting!!! I love Clara Bow! Do you know by any chance who sang this song?

[coopsgirl07]

Thanks! Harry Reaser sings this version and Ted Weems did a good version of it too.

[W24YI]

The vocalist is Tom Stacks who was the drummer & vocalist

with the Harry Reser Orch. -Lou Curtiss

[riverphoenixgurl]

I love her sooooooooooooooooooooooo much!

Clara Bow is a goddess. :)

[recovering16]

I agree with you all - she lives today because of these films. She does seem so modern and current - unlike other stars of the era. I'm definitely a fan - almost 70 years after she was the "It" Girl!

[ligerzrule7]

I agree as well. She can still be as bright and current as she was back then, because she had spunk and heart and didn't give a damn.I think she was one of the most real people Hollwood had to offer and they shunned her for it, yet they went on and lived their own scandolous lives. Such hypocrysy! The sad thing is it still goes on today. Onn a lighter note, i read that in the early 90s they found one of her lost films! I hope Kino can put out on DVD soon... Long live Clara Bow!!!!!! : )- Becca

[recovering16]

I forgot that I wrote this. Thanks for writing, Becca. You'd probably be interested to know that I've met her son, Rex Bell, Jr., who lives here in Las Vegas. He's spoken at a couple of functions here about life on the Walking Box Ranch, in Nevada and then later in Las Vegas. He said that Clara was just "mom" to him, someone who was sensitive and loved animals - not at all like her screen persona, as he remembers her.

[ligerzrule7]

That's so cool! I actually own It with the Hugh M. Hefner production of The It Girl Remembered or something like that (I don't remember the actual title) and I remember Rex Bell Jr. talking about his mother. It was sweet.

[shortjockbalt]

aw nerts--whatever happened to Clara--she was still the best the Screen had to offer, then and now! These clips just go to show why the talking pictures ain't got too much to show for themselves. I wish that Brooklyn's IT Girl could still light up the screens of Balto.

[LaVerne37]

I CANNOT BELIEVE I FOUND THIS!!! THIS IS GREAT WORK AND I AM SO GRATEFUL!!!

Talkies don't rule in TEXAS!!!

[moonlightorchid99]

wonderful,but clara had a very tragic life,her father molested her,her mother never accpeted her acting because she thought it was the same to prostitution and one night clara woke up to find her mother holding a knife above her about to kill saying 'clara,im gonna kill ya,its better for ya',she was a tomboy,her only childhood friend died in a fire when she was nine and years later used the tune 'rock-a-bye-baby' to cry in films because it remined her of him,she inherited mental illness and died

[mcdonchris]

She was just simply beautiful inside and out..thanks for posting.

[HarborGuy]

Fun flick I have a copy - Love the ending....

[alexegeviz]

GREAT!!! Oh yes,She's Got It!