Nude Shadow, 1920S. /Nthe Shadow Of Actress Clara Bow In The Nude. Photographed In The 1920S. Poster Print by (18 x 24)

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The films she went on to make there included some silent classics: they, and she, were precociously flirtatious, youthful and saucy. “Flapper” movies such as The Plastic Age or Dancing Mothers were perfect for Bow, who had a stunning ability to move naturally in front of the camera, bobbing and smirking with humour and sexiness. Bow became a hugely popular actor, and, in tabloid-speak, a notorious wild child. On screen she epitomised the joie de vivre and permissiveness of the jazz age, and for many people she remains the ultimate flapper, the “It girl”, with charm and sex appeal to spare. His choice of equipment might seem odd by the standards of today, even using the fairly common Graflex Speed Graphic 3 1/4 X 4 1/4 employed by Dorothea Lange, Edward Steichen and others during that period. But he also extensively used a Century 11×14 camera and glass plates, plus eventually the 6x6cm Zeiss Ikon, and 120 roll film. However, he stubbornly continued to use his massive 11×14-inch view camera well into the late 1940’s and early 1950’s. And he continued to use it with a 2 inch Steinheil lens. While it would be a rare find, similar types of lenses are now available from Lomography in their Daguerreotype Achromat series. Although, honestly, I’ve seen absolutely phenomenal clone images out of a Canon 5D using those Lomography Achromat lenses.

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Bow was born into tragedy. Though she was her mother’s third daughter, Sarah had lost her two eldest children when they were babies, and doctors begged her not to get pregnant again or have another child for fear that this infant would perish too. Sarah didn’t listen—and the conditions of Clara’s birth couldn’t have been worse. Their scenes, together, illustrate what directors and producers would do to tease audiences. These three rules dominated: 1) Get an actress in flimsy clothes and no under-garments; 2) Get an actress out of her dress to show off her under-garments; 3) Get an actress out of her clothes and into the water.ALL BIDDERS MUST AGREE THAT THEY HAVE READ AND UNDERSTOOD BONHAMS' CONDITIONS OF SALE AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THEM, AND AGREE TO PAY THE BUYER'S PREMIUM AND ANY OTHER CHARGES MENTIONED IN THE NOTICE TO BIDDERS. THIS AFFECTS THE BIDDERS LEGAL RIGHTS. Bow confessed that her mother’s mental issues often made her “mean” to her, but as the years passed, Sarah's hostile episodes got worse and worse. When Bow told her mother as a teenager that she wanted to be an actress, Sarah’s response was utterly cold-blooded. She told Bow she would be “better off dead” than a Hollywood star, then made good on that disturbing promise...

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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. In truth, Bow never liked talkies, calling them “stiff and limiting” and complaining that “you lose your cuteness.” She also never got comfortable with them. One day on the set of her talkie The Wild Party, she had to endure retake after retake because she couldn’t stop nervously glancing at the microphone above her. And that wasn’t all…The shift from silent films to talkies was an enormous sea change in Hollywood that drowned many a star—but contrary to popular belief, our gritty Clara survived and thrived. Audiences still loved her, Brooklyn accent or not, and her new films were hit. Yet the new talkie format still took a huge toll on the actress… 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.