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LOS ANGELES, July 22 (AP).--Lorraine Bow, 21 years old, former stage dancer, obtained a divorce in Superior Court here today from Robert Bow, 45, father of Clara Bow, film actress, on the...
Robert Bow can be described simply as “no-good”. One of 13 children, he was raised in New York. A small man with little ambition past frequent visits to the brothels and saloons which graced Brooklyn at the turn of the century, he could rarely keep a steady job.
Sarah Bow was the mother of famed, Old Hollywood It Girl Clara Bow and the wife of Robert Bow. Sarah had 2 other daughters, born in 1903 and 1904, who died in infancy. Sarah was told by a doctor not to become pregnant again, because this time she might die as well.
Robert Walter Bow. Birth. 30 Apr 1875. New York, USA. Death. 1 Oct 1959 (aged 84) Los Angeles County, California, USA. Burial. Forest Lawn Memorial Park. Glendale, Los Angeles County, California, USA Add to Map. Plot.
- Clara Bow Was A Brooklyn Native.
- Clara Bow Is Connected to A Brooklyn Legend.
- Clara Bow Was Cut from Her First Film.
- Clara Bow’s Mother Tried to Kill her.
- Clara Bow Wasn’T Cinema’S First Flapper.
- Clara Bow Was The Original “It Girl.”
- “It Girl” Wasn’T Clara Bow’s only nickname.
- Clara Bow Was Amazingly Popular.
- Clara Bow Could Cry on Cue.
- Clara Bow Is The Reason The Boom Mic Was created.
Clara Gordon Bow was born on July 29, 1905 in a tenement apartment above a Baptist church at 697 Bergen Street in Brooklyn's Prospect Heights neighborhood. Bow’s parents, Sarah and Robert, were poor and moved frequently around Brooklyn during Bow’s childhood. Her strong Brooklyn accent caused her some stress when the transition to talkies came alon...
While growing up in Brooklyn, young Bow took a job working at a hot dog stand owned by a man named Nathan Handwerker. She didn’t work there long; in 1921, she won an acting contest and was put on the path toward fame. Handwerker did alright for himself in the culinary arena, though. The hot dog stand Bow worked at grew into the Nathan’s Famous bran...
Bow's victory in the “Fame and Fortune” magazine contest got her a role in her first film, Beyond the Rainbow, in which she played the lead’s little sister. When the film opened, Bow invited two friends from school to see it with her, only to discover that her role was among those that had been cut from the film entirely.
To say that Sarah Bow was angry that her daughter had entered that movie contest would be a major understatement. When she was told that Clara had entered a movie contest, Sarah fainted, then told Clara that she was going to hell for what she had done. But that wasn't even close to the worst of it: Sarah actually tried to murder Clara while she was...
Bow is often thought of as the flapper icon of silent cinema. And though she’s probably the most iconic, she wasn’t the first. That honor goes to the tragic Olive Thomas, who starred in The Flapper (1920) a good three years before Bow’s Black Oxen, the first film in which she played a flapper, hit screens. Bow was also beaten to the punch by actres...
The film of Bow’s that had the most cultural impact was It, about a salesgirl (Bow) who has a crush on the upper-class manager of the department store where she works. The movie was loosely based on a two-part serial in Cosmopolitan by Elinor Glyn, who wrote that“It” was “That quality possessed by some which draws all others with its magnetic force...
In an insensitive nod to Bow’s scandalous lifestyle and mental health issues, producer and studio head B.P. Schulberg nicknamed Bow “Crisis-A-Day Clara.”
Audiences loved Bow. Between 1927 and 1930, she was either the biggest or second biggest box office draw in America. At one point, she received a whopping 45,000-plus fan lettersin a single month.
Bow “could cry at the drop of a hat, and you'd believe her," William Kaplan, a prop man at Paramount, once said of the actress. It was a skill she utilized on her first film, Beyond the Rainbow—though she later explained her abilityin a pretty depressing way: "It was easy for me t'cry. All I hadda do was think of home."
Director Dorothy Arzner is often credited with inventing the first boom mic—which is likely a bit of a simplification, given that film professionals were all figuring how to work with this new thing called “sound” at the same time. So multiple people probably “invented” the boom mic roughly contemporaneously. Still, the story goes that Bow had a la...
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Jul 20, 2014 · Organizers are reaching out to as many Gunn alumni and old-timers as possible — including the school’s first principal, Robert McLean, who now lives in senior housing in Cupertino, the first...
Robert Bow Character Analysis. Robert Bow. Justine Crown ’s brother, Robert Bow, is—like his sister—a direct descendant of Gibbie Bow. When Abigail encounters Robert on a visit to the Crowns’, she is shocked to find that he looks exactly like Judah Bow.
