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Identify Silent Film Actress In


In the opening credit sequence who is the actress who appears right after Chaplin looks into the camera and blinks twice.This actress is beckoning someone off the screen in a playful mood by motioning her finger and winking her eye.I might be confusing her for someone else.

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Possibly Clara Bow? She was adorable and full of star quality. She had "it":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6YVuFDX-Oc

But what a sad life! Poor girl 

Her most famous movie, "It":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4MOQSRC_bM

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Oh boy should have known.. yea she was very adorable and even more so in that segment of the opening credits of this show.Almost gives you butterflies.And yea she fell just as hard and fast as she rose. Its not hard to imagine that this woman had a very hard private life what with all the accusations and rumors of alchoholism and presumably even drug addiction.She didnt just fit in with the elite social cirle of the american film industry in those days.And thanks for such a fast reply because no one ever comes here on these boards

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Yes, Clara Bow led a very tragic life; her mother tried to murder her when she was a child and she was also raped by her father. Although she did leave Hollywood more through choice than anything, I think she wanted to live with her husband Rex. Unfortunately and somewhat understandably, she suffered mental health issues during her retirement, after having treatment, she never returned to her family and lived her final years as a recluse.

The clip itself in the introduction is from the film 'Mantrap', albeit slightly altered.

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