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For All Her Reported Engagements, She Hasn't
Found the Right Man.
the five who could not hold Clara Bow's affections after they had once secured them.
Sometimes I wonder if it is the memory of her mother that makes Clara so terribly afraid of love and what it can do to one.
Clara would be the first to tell you that her mother never loved her father. Clara knew it from her earliest childhood. Her mother knew it. So, too, unfortunately, did her father.
The Bows only had a little two-room flat. Clara's father didn't get the breaks. Her mother was in broken health and given to terrible fits of coughing. Money was very scarce.
It was probably during that time that Clara adopted the mask she still wears today. It was probably then that she first learned you can laugh and make the
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Robert Bow was the spoiled younger son of an average American family. Born and brought up close to each other in the same farming district of New York State, the girl Robert Bow married was more taught to seek the finer things of life.
They had two babies, both girls, one who lived for an hour and one who lived for a day, before Clara, who was to bring them fame, came along.
The little family moved to Brooklyn and on the pavements of that city, Clara fought her
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world laugh with you while fear and loneliness are gnawing at your heart. Certainly the little redhead went through more emotions before the age of twelve than most of us experience in an entire existence. As a child she discovered movies and through them, beauty. And it was the movies themselves, as you know, that gave her the daring idea of entering her photograph in a contest that a screen magazine was running.
In the center is the Clara Bow the movie
fans know. The IT girl of Hollywood is
going to be starred next in 'Station
S-E-X."
way up. She was always a tomboy. Life even then had made her too hard to leave her adaptable to the silly pretentions of most girls. She went with boys and tried to be one of them. And while she tried to be the gayest of the gay, the cutest kid of the lot, her home life was as drab as anything in a Russian novel.
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The pictures at the left and above show Clara Bow as she was when she first came to pictures, a life embittered little girl.
She won the magazine contest. The judges were famous artists, Howard Chandler Christie, Harrison Fisher, and Neysa McMein. It was probably those judges who saved her and gave her to the movie fans of today. For the artist sees deeper than the average eye and those three sane (Continued on page 122)
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