Clara Bow -- A Jazz-Eyed Flapper -- July 21, 2024

Photoplay, July, 1924

Clara Bow's career was skyrocketing 100 years ago this month, in July 1924. "There is a wistfulness, an ingenuousness about Clara in this picture that is not of the flapper type."

Newark Leader, 25-July-1924

When I wrote about Clara appearing in Grit, I didn't remember that it was based on an unpublished short story by F Scott Fitzgerald.

Indianapolis Times, 26-July-1924

This ad for Daughters of Pleasure has a nice picture of star Marie Prevost, but Clara played an important role as her best friend. William Beaudine directed. BP Schulberg produced. 

Indianapolis Times, 28-July-1924

"But the honors of the production go to Clara Bow as the jazz-eyed flapper."

Kansas City Star, 13-July-1924

Clara was the leading lady in Poisoned Paradise, a story about gamblers. "Robert W Service's famous novel of the exciting present-day life in Paris and Monte Carlo, that is banned by the police of those cities, because it tells too much!" Louis Gasnier directed.

Kansas City Star, 13-July-1924

"The story is laid in Monte Carlo, where Mr Service now resides, and deals so frankly with gambling conditions in that resort that the book has been prohibited publication in the principality of Monaco."

Tacoma Daily Ledger, 08-July-1924

There was some controversy about Clara winking in a scene with her love interest, Kenneth Harlan. She always did it well.