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Post #1408215

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Vultural
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A few reviews . . (film or TV)
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5-Feb-2021, 11:21 AM

Clara Bow: Hollywood’s Lost Screen Goddess - 2012 - 6/10

Unnecessary, redundant documentary on one of the Silent Era’s greatest actors.
Clara’s life is presented in more or less chronological order, though accompanying clips do bounce around.
For example, while commenting on her mid-Paramount career, work from her 30’s period might be shown.
Not a real sin, and probably not noticeable by any except Clara enthusiasts.
Talking heads include Joel Stenn (Bow’s biographer) and Leonard Maltin.
Also neighbors from her final years, as well as her daughter-in-law.
Here’s the thing. Stenn and Maltin were also part of 1999‘s Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl, a better documentary. Her son, Rex Bell Jr, was among the interviewees, rather than her daughter-in-law.
Still, if this is all you can locate, it should be a good introduction.
Her movies, by the way, are hit n miss. You watch them strictly to see Bow’s expressive face.