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"WE ARE DIFFERENT PEOPLE, THATS WHY WE ARE GETTING DIVORCED" CARTOON (1975)

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Repeated Absences (1972), dir. Guy Gilles

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From: HOW TO READ A PERSON LIKE A BOOK (1971), by Gerard I. Nierenberg and Henry H. Calero.

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Bow’s Boys ☆ Clara Bow and her sons, (L-R) Rex Anthony Bell Jr. (1934-2011) and George Beldam Jr. (1938- ) ☆ Happy Mother’s Day! ☆

Clara showered her sons with the love and affection her own parents had denied her. Both were as feisty and rambunctious as she had been, but unlike her mother, Tony and George were never punished for their personalities. When Clara did discipline them, she invariably apologized all the while. “You’re lucky ya didn’t have my father,” she told Tony amidst a spanking that seemed to hurt her more than him. What riled her most was waste and rudeness. Having gone hungry in her own childhood, she was infuriated when her sons hid unwanted food behind the dining room curtains. Likewise, “sassin’” an elder enraged her. Jean Harlow’s sudden death at twenty-six had upset Clara deeply, and she subsequently made a point of befriending Betty Grable, the “Pin-Up Girl” who had replaced the “Blonde Bombshell” (who had replaced “the ‘It’ Girl”) as reigning sex icon. When Grable paid a visit to June Street one day, Tony welcomed her shouting, “HIYA, BETTY!” from the second-floor landing. “Well,” he recalls, “when Mother heard that, she turned right around, charged upstairs, dragged me into my room, and spanked the hell out of me!” Again Clara’s anger derived from past experience. Disrespected during her own career, she forbid her son to treat “Miss Grable” the same way.

- Clara Bow: Runnin’ Wild by David Stenn, page 251.

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A Day at the Races ☆ Clara Bow (age 29) and her husband Rex Bell (age 31) at Agua Caliente (February, 1934) ☆ Original caption typed on reverse:

MR. AND MRS. REX BELL - - -

Witness races from the judges’ pagoda at Agua Caliente. Miss Bow is an ardent devotee of the sport and has made reservations for each weekend for the balance of the season. Rex Bell is owner of a large Nevada ranch and his love of horses brings him to Caliente as often as possible.

Photo shows Rex Bell and Clara Bow at Agua Caliente.

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Clara Bow in Mantrap (1926)

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One of my favourite photos of Clara.

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My beloved, Clara!

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Clara Bow and Gilbert Roland are young and in love in the mid-1920s.

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Two Goddesses Together ☆ Clara Bow and Jean Harlow ☆ The Saturday Night Kid (1929) ☆

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Mary Carlisle (pictured) was the last surviving original WAMPAS Baby Star (1932) She passed away in 2018 at the age of 104.

• A WAMPAS Baby Star was a young actress selected annually between 1922 and 1934 by the Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers (WAMPAS) in Hollywood, deemed to be on the verge of movie stardom. Usually numbering 13, this marketing campaign promoted rising talent, featuring famous stars like Ginger Rogers, Loretta Young, and Fay Wray.

• Most failed to live up to their promotion; a small number of the selections went on to become major movie stars: Colleen Moore (1922), Jobyna Ralston (1923), Clara Bow (1924), Janet Gaynor (1926), Fay Wray (1926), Dolores del Rio (1926), Dolores Costello (1926), Mary Astor (1926), Joan Crawford (1926), Loretta Young (1929), Jean Arthur (1929), Joan Blondell (1931) and Ginger Rogers (1932).

• Janet Gaynor, Mary Astor, Joan Crawford, Loretta Young and Ginger Rogers all were awarded the Academy Award for Best Actress during their careers, with Gaynor receiving the first one during the first year of the award's existence.