Kidnappers were in the news after the Lindbergh case. A number of stars received kidnap threats, including Mae West and Thelma Todd.
Mae West receives extortion notes:
http://framework.latimes.com/2012/09/13/1935-mae-west-extortion-case/
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Showing posts with label Clara Bow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Clara Bow. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Kidnappers In Hollywood - PICTURE PLAY, 1932
Kidnappers were in the news after the Lindbergh case. A number of stars received kidnap threats, including Mae West and Thelma Todd.
Mae West receives extortion notes:
http://framework.latimes.com/2012/09/13/1935-mae-west-extortion-case/
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Friday, December 21, 2018
Monday, October 29, 2018
Monday, May 14, 2018
Clara Bow And Her Baby
A little late for mother's day, which was yesterday, but here is an autographed picture of Clara Bow and her son George.
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Thursday, December 21, 2017
Monday, August 14, 2017
Same Backdrop
This picture of Clara Bow at Paramount was taken in front of the same backdrop
as this picture of Thelma Todd.
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Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Clara Bow Publicity Photo
Clara Bow and Chester Conklin in a publicity photo for FASCINATING YOUTH, which was said to have been Thelma Todd's first movie.
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Friday, July 29, 2016
Clara Bow's Birthday
Clara Bow and Thelma Todd were born on the same day a year apart. Here is a publicity picture for the Clara Bow movie THE SATURDAY NIGHT KID ( that's why Saturday is circled ) which mentions her birthday on the back.
A couple of other pictures for THE SATURDAY NIGHT KID.
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Saturday, April 30, 2016
Paramount Publicity Pictures Of Clara Bow
Some drape art pictures they made of Clara Bow at Paramount during the silent era. The same studio made drape art pictures of Thelma Todd.
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Saturday, December 26, 2015
Wednesday, December 23, 2015
Thursday, September 24, 2015
CALL HER SAVAGE Autographed Picture
CALL HER SAVAGE photo that was autographed by Clara Bow and several others.
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Thursday, September 3, 2015
CALL HER SAVAGE Photos
Publicity photo with Clara Bow on the left and Thelma Todd on the right.
Frame enlargement from where the big fight scene is about to begin.
Publicity photo of Thelma Todd.
Publicity photo of Clara Bow.
POSTERS
Photoplay edition of CALL HER SAVAGE with Clara Bow on the cover.
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CALL HER SAVAGE Herald
This herald proclaims that Clara Bow has made a comeback film after having been absent from the screen for a time.
Thelma Todd may be seen facing Clara Bow in the small square photo in the middle of the right hand side of this herald.
The photo with Thelma Todd seen at a larger size.
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Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Watch CALL HER SAVAGE
CALL HER SAVAGE was Clara Bow's 1932 comeback film. Thelma Todd was also in it.
Call Her Savage
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Call Her Savage | |
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| Directed by | John Francis Dillon |
| Produced by | Sam E. Rork |
| Written by | Tiffany Thayer (novel) Edwin J. Burke |
| Starring | Clara Bow Gilbert Roland |
| Music by | Peter Brunelli Arthur Lange |
| Cinematography | Lee Garmes |
| Edited by | Harold D. Schuster |
| Distributed by | Fox Film Corporation |
Release dates
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Running time
| 82-92 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Plot summary
A wild young woman, born and raised in Texas, rebels against the man she believes to be her father. Moving to Chicago, she marries badly, loses her child in a boardinghouse fire, is nearly forced to become a prostitute, and is renounced by her father, who tells her he never wishes to see her again.Upon learning that her mother is dying, she hurries home to Texas. There she learns that she is a so-called "half-breed," half white and half Indian. The assertion is made that this explains why she had always been "untameable and wild", which played into the stereotypes of the 1920s for American Indians. This knowledge of her lineage would supposedly allow her the possibility for happiness in the arms of a handsome young Indian who has long loved her from afar.
Cast
- Clara Bow as Nasa Springer
- Gilbert Roland as Moonglow
- Thelma Todd as Sunny De Lane
- Monroe Owsley as Lawrence Crosby
- Estelle Taylor as Ruth Springer
- Weldon Heyburn as Ronasa
- Willard Robertson as Pete Springer
- Anthony Jowitt as Jay Randall
- Fred Kohler as Silas Jennings
- Russell Simpson as Old Man In Wagon Train
- Margaret Livingston as Molly
- Carl Stockdale as Mort
- Dorothy Peterson as Silas' Wife
- Marilyn Knowlden as Ruth (as a girl)
- Douglas Haig (uncredited) as Pete as a Boy[2]
Preservation status
The film was restored in 2012 by the Museum of Modern Art and premiered at the third annual Turner Classic Movies Film Festival in Hollywood.[3]Notes
This is a film that is about the status of women in the 1920s and racism against American Indians. The film is really a prologue to modern feminism and the centers on the humanity of American Indians, hence the title of the film. Among the stereotypes confronted in the film was an attempt by "Dynamite's" father to force her into a marriage, and her cat fight in a social club.References
- Jump up ^ Mordaunt Hall (1932-11-25). "Clara Bow as a Termagant in a Film of a Novel by Tiffany Thayer -- The Night Mayor". The New York Times. Retrieved 2012-03-17.
- Jump up ^ Alan Gevinson, ed. (1997). American Film Institute Catalog. University of California Press.
- Jump up ^ TCM
External links
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CALL HER SAVAGE was one of Clara Bow's last movies. And it was the third movie that her and Thelma Todd made together, the others being FASCINATING YOUTH and NO LIMIT. CALL HER SAVAGE was an effort to make something different from Clara Bow's other movies, which tended more towards light-hearted entertainment. A NEW YORK TIMES review dated November 25, 1932 said in part, "Miss Bow does quite well by the role of this fiery-tempered impulsive Nasa, but whether the flow of incidents makes for satisfactory entertainment is a matter of opinion."
I didn't care for this one myself. Give me the good old days when Clara Bow's movies weren't quite so full of misery.
CALL HER SAVAGE:
http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9F04E1D71E31E333A25756C2A9679D946394D6CF
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Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Birthday Of Clara Bow
Today is also the birthday of Clara Bow. She was born the year before Thelma Todd, so if she was still with us she'd be 110 years old.
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