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Clara Bow - "True to the Navy" (1930)

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Uploaded by on Jan 20, 2008

A rare glimpse of Clara Bow singing from the promotional film "Paramount on Parade" (1930).

If you look closely, you can see Clara glancing upwards ever so often. She is most likely looking at the microphone, of which she developed a phobia during her brief talkies career. She was always very self-conscious of her voice.

The sound is slightly off in this clip. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to fix it.

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  • more people need to know about Clara Bow!

  • "Paramount on Parade" is considered the best of the early-sound revues. However, most of us will never know because this and many of Paramounts films from the silent era to 1950 are never shown. They are either in Universal or Paramount's vault, and neither studio has any interest in them. Paramount's silents and precodes are considered some of the finest made, yet they show no interest in them. What a shame.

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  • I love her. She's not the greatest singer, but it doesn't matter. She's still a joy to watch.

  • classic!

  • I am absolutely in love. Clara, you will always be better than ANY movie "star" today. <3

  • Oh Clara...what a tragic life...one of the greatest actresses ever. Anyone who's able to emote such raw and REAL emotion through silence is truly talented...

  • Mon dieu, elle est absolument belle!

    julianallees

    le 25 Avril 2011

  • I can see it now--Captain's Mast for petting my petty officer. ;])

  • O.k., I give up--let all the women in the Navy you want to! Can I re-join? I'll PAY to join! ;])

  • If the movie 'Singin' in the Rain' was about Clara Bow being the singer with the harsh voice then this is not her voice.

    Clara was known for her NOO YAWK accent.

  • i love clara bow, but these military propaganda films, ("wings" sucks by the way), are pretty embarrassing. world war one really wasn't that long before this. didn't these people (clara included) have any friggin conscience?

  • @ziggycat999 not true clara recorded on her personal recorder in the 50s ... I have heard some of them and she did sing just like this

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