A few more vintage Clara Bow items arrived this week...
"I needed no reminder of the "It" girl or who she is. I hope you'll note the tense used here. You happen to have given a vitality, a beauty and an excitement to our industry that no one has ever duplicated" - Rod Serling, from a letter he wrote to Clara responding to HER fan letter to him!
A vintage postard
"I never met Marilyn Monroe, but if I had, I would have tried very hard to help her. A sex symbol is a heavy load to carry when one is tired, hurt and bewildered" - Clara Bow
"You brush off Clara Bow for some old nothing like Brooks. The more I think of it the madder I get. You writing about some old fucks and not even mentioning Clara Bow's name. - Louise Brooks writing to Kevin Brownlow about the lack of ANY mention of Clara in his 1968 book on silent films called "The Parade Gone By"
You aren't kidding about that last one. Wow.
ReplyDeleteShe often looks like Annie Potts (or, more accurately, vice versa)
ReplyDeleteLemmy - that's a doozie huh? love the outfit, the jewelry, the hair, and especially that expression!
ReplyDeleteJ.B. - you know, i gotta kinda go along with ya on that. The Annie from her Designing Women/softcore porn popcorn ads period defintely had a similiar look going on. that was when Annie looked her best imo.