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Shamed - Old Hollywood (295. ENTERTAINMENT LAWYER 03/25 **13**)


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Considering her father started making her sleep with men who could advance her career from the time she was 13 or 14, I don't think people would find it shocking she didn't really enjoy her life. There was the time she was 16 and essentially was at the back and call of a 50 year old man who kept promising our teen and the teen's dad that he would help her career. He never did. He just kept sleeping with the teen. When our actress, who would become A++ list, did finally make it she had to sleep with a director, but he cast her. When she stopped sleeping with him, he cut her out of the movie. Pretty soon our actress didn't have to sleep with anyone to get parts. Her problem was a bad contract she signed. She was the biggest movie star in the world, but was getting paid like she was an extra. Her studio would loan her out and give her a pittance. So, she found ways to get more and more money. She would be dared to do things for money. She rarely said no. Whether it was taking on three or four men or women or even having sex with animals, if there was enough money being offered, she would do it. After just a few short years, her mental health was so messed up, she quit the business and went into seclusion for 35 years. During that time, she tried to kill herself multiple times. Clara Bow (SCANDAL! Clara Bow: The It Girl's Lifestyle on Trial) (Clara Gordon Bow) http://flickchick1953.blogspot.com/2013/10/scandal-clara-bow-it-girls-lifestyle-on.html

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According to a well-researched and reputable biography I read of her some years ago, Clara had absolutely no idea of being an actress until she was in her late teens, and a movie studio talent scout (a female talent scout) saw a picture of her. She was just another dirt-poor abused kid in NYC before that, not a wannabe who was being pushed . And that a lot of the wilder stories about her behavior came out of a legal case with a disgruntled ex-employee in the early 1930s, and were more likely fabrications than not.

ENTY the bullshit artist has been letting his imagination run away with him away, and what a creepy imagination it is.

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What is the name of the book?

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No idea. I got a biography of Bow from the library in the 1990s. No clue what the name was or how many books about her have been written, this one's probably been out of print forever.

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