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Although she had a turbulent relationship with her mother (more on that later), Bow never stopped being her biggest defender. After Sarah passed in 1923, Bow screamed at her other family members who had gathered for the funeral, calling them “hypocrites” for never caring about Sarah. If that weren't unhinged enough, Bow then tried to jump into her mother's grave. For a time, Bow tried to return to a normal life. She settled down with her hunky Cowboy co-star Rex Bell, moving into his ranch outside of Hollywood and marrying him in December, 1931. It almost worked: They had two children together and lived happily at first. Yet as always with Bow, darker days were just around the corner. Steve Allen the first host of the Tonight Show? Or a different one? I was (and am) a big fan of comedian/musician Steve Allen. Interesting fact (to me anyway), but the question “is it bigger than a breadbox” originated with Steve Allen. It was when he was a regular panelist on What’s My Line in the early 1950’s. “You deal in a product, was it bigger than a breadbox?” That is a show I wish they would revive. Panelists ask a contestant Yes/No questions and have to guess their occupation before they get 10 wrong answers. There were usually 2 regular contestants, followed by a celebrity mystery guest. About 15 years ago I couldn’t sleep and was flipping through channels and stopped on the Game Show Network. They were airing an episode that must have been from 1957 because they were talking about the launch of Sputnik that week. I started watching it and before it was over set it to record every night. That show aired in prime time from 1950 until 1967, then I was born. By the time the reclusive Clara Bow passed, almost no one remembered her. AFI left her off their iconic “100 Years…100 Stars” list, and movie historian Kevin Brownlow completely omitted her from his silent film book The Parade’s Gone By. But there is, at long last, a happy ending for Clara Bow—and it comes from a most unusual heroine…

was born in 1885 in New York. As he was born into a very affluent family of bankers, his turn to photography was a bit curious to everyone. He began by painting and illustration at the National Academy of Design in New York. However, his endeavors into making a living as a portrait painter were unsuccessful. Hence, although he had a bit of camera experience using a camera to record his painting subjects, he jumped into photography as his new creative medium. Sadly, while the movie contract took Bow out of Brooklyn, where she had spent her abusive and impoverished childhood, her new home had dangers of its own. For all her successes, Bow was snubbed by the in-crowd, and for years after her heyday she would be nudged out of history. Her film career held more future sadness and scandal than she could have possibly imagined when she signed on the dotted line. Studio executives tried to manipulate her, calling her a “birdbrain” and a “dumbbell” while she continued to make them masses of money at the box office.

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I think it’s slightly unfair to say Steve Allen was a “fairly conventional” talk show host in that he basically created those conventions. When he created the Tonight Show you could say he was being unconventional because he was creating something new. Sometimes when you see a classic movie for the first time it can feel a bit derivative because of all the films you have seen that copied from/paid homage to that classic. It just comes down to what you saw first. But I don’t think I’ve ever seen an image of Pola Negri that was attributed to him. But I could be wrong. They were both around at the same time, and Hollywood’s greatest stars of the Golden Age were taken by the most revered photographers in Hollywood, which included Ernest A. Bachrach and Alfred Cheney Johnston. Bow had plenty of charm, but her manners were atrocious. High-class Hollywood society considered her and her brassy ways “dreadful” because she refused to bow down to them or their old rules. As Bow once retorted, "They are snobs. Frightful snobs ... I'm a curiosity in Hollywood. I'm a big freak, because I'm myself!" I think there's a popular misconception that Clara's career went into the dumpster when talkies came in because she had an irritating voice. It sounds fine to me. During his career he ended up photographing several hundred actresses and showgirls, a few of who eventually became famous in the movies. Although he was quite well known for his nudes, he had stated,…“I’ve never been interested in making lewd photographs. On the other hand, I’ve always believed that if a woman had a beautiful body, it should be shown. That’s why I’ve always used the simplest of drapes. Effectively, tastefully, of course; but never as an excuse for lewdness nor for covering up a beautiful figure.”Throughout her entire career—and particularly during her tragic end—Bow was incredibly emotionally fragile. Though this is exactly what helped her cry at the drop of a hat, Tuttle also noted that it made Bow “full of nervous energy and pitifully eager to please everyone.” Soon enough, this tendency would ravage Bow.