Silent Hollywood Clara Bow "The It Girl" Part One
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- Опубликовано: 12 май 2008
- Silent Hollywood Clara Bow "The It Girl" Part One
From the Series "Hollywood" later named "The Big Picture"
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Louise Brooks always defended Bow's talent and disparaged anyone who didn't take Bow seriously as a performer and as a star. Brooks didn't have a lot of nice things to say about Hollywood, but never ran out of compliments for Bow and her talent
Yes, I also agree; that was very magnanimous of Ms Brooks (0:51) to say of Ms Bow (esp., as you even say of how 'Lulu' felt about so many of her contemporaries).
I think Brooks understand her because she had lot in common a free soul, the difference is Louise had most love to herself, dignity and proud. That's why she rejected Hollywood, and when came back, the entire film industry close the doors for her.
Maybe because Louise Brooks was such a phenomenally talented actress herself, she did not feel the need to disparage Clara. Moreover, she did not look down on C.B., because of Clara's extreme poverty, growing up in Brooklyn with a demented mother and a father who abused her. Wish that we could have seen Brooks and Bow in a film together!
Brooksie never DID get old! Sure, her hair went white and she lost her famous bangs, but just listen to her voice and the way she talks.
She was incredible ❤️
Her voice sounds so YOUNG
Just one of the many perks of being a Scorpio we are quick minded😂😝 my bday 11/11 Louise Brooks Bday 11/14
Loved Clara's hair, man. She was one-of-a-kind.
CLARA BOW was a beautiful, fun girl, Like Betty Boop in human form.
I love hearing James Mason, and talking about Clara Bow!...what a treat!
Two greats in entertainment.
The actresses of today couldn't hold a candle to Clara. She could move an audience without even saying a word (hey, it was silent film back then). That's a lot of power...they eyes have it.
Clara will be admired forever for her talent and beauty.
Thanks
Louise Brooks and Clara Bow, Beautiful silent screen actresses
Louise Brooks always my favorite. ❤
could listen to Brooks all day long
I love James Mason, such a perfect narrator!
Louise Brooks ought to know when it comes to evaluating Clara Bow. Brooks, rather than a rival, was one of her biggest fans.
William Perry
Clara Bow had almost the same personality type Marilyn Monroe had. It was a manufacturered person just a living projection.
clara will ALWAYS BE THE " IT GIRL OF THE 20'S"
Lulu was always straight up. Minced no words, and couldn't give a damn what others thought of her. Clara and Lulu are my all-time favorites.
Both of my faves Clara Bow & Louise Brooks !
Ohhhh Lulu talking about Clara! this is wonderful!
'Don't believe all you hear Clara. Your best friends are silent'
Betty Boop is modeled after her!!
Clara Bow was The 'IT GIRL'!!!
I can see that-
You went places girl! Glad she was able to overcome her horrible childhood
I find it interesting that Brooks, who most often apparently had no reason to tout any person other than herself, would offer such a rave about another... It is such a tribute to Bow's talents that such things were said about her, by this woman.
I love Clara.
She will always be real Hollywood.
George Vreeland Hill
Applause for Clara Bow!!
Idem!
I love her. She would bed almost any guy. That's my kind of gal.
One of the most beautiful woman in the world to me.
Clarabow was an idle silent screen actress to females for speaking up for herself if she felt she wasn't being understood,like Mary pickford,who started the right to produce and direct films in times when men ruled,so thanks to them,💯💯😘💯😘💯👏👏👏👏
I know we all get old, but it's hard to see Lulu as an old lady
Well, I wouldn't be surprised if she'd been up to mischief even then! ;) That's our Lulu!
Love those old movies
Louise Brooks would certainly have related to, and sympathised with, Clara Bow here, I think, based on the fact that they both had such poor treatment from Paramount at the same time, at the time... Her comments about her here are telling, really, in more than one way, if you think about it...
"OH!... Heavens,NO!.. We can't have HER... We don't know what she'd DO.. She's from Brooklyn..."
(Now THAT'S rather telling about what the Hollywood "culture" was about at the time, don't you think?...)
Yeah, that pissed me off. I'm a native New Yorker and thought that guy sounded like a real jerk. I'm confident, his wife, Louise, set him straight.
@@waynej2608 I can almost guarantee you that Lulu would have 'set him straight' on the matter of Clara Bow. Louise always spoke what was on her mind and to hell with everyone else!
James Mason's narration is awesome for this. Kind of lascivious. Louise Brooks looks amazing here. She was gorgeous all her life.
specially her voice....... its incredible that voice in her 70's
Yes, she aged very well.
Louise Brooke’s voice scares me lol she sounds like a teenager! 😂😅😅 it’s not raspy or anything ❤️❤️❤️
It's strange that Louise Brooks' myth has overtaken Bow's since around the time of this docu. In Hollywood, Brooksie was known as "a beautiful nothing" according to Cukor. Her European films with Pabst have resurrected her legend and made it a myth, just as Garbo had been in her own lifetime. Time will tell if Clara Bow will experience a similar renaissance.
This is just my guess probably because Brooks and garbo made less films, also a lot of Louise Brooks movies with lost to time due to the volatility of the film stock before the movies came around she was a stage actor and a dancer she became famous through that and she was also was a Ziegfeld girl Clara Bow has a lot of movies out there.
They both had different path to fame, Brooks has like three movies out there that you can find two are German and one English-speaking and I think the only one she did with sound and I think John Wayne Play the lead She was the love interest. And after that she left Hollywood.
I'm sure Clara Bow will have a Resurgence a start like that won't go away
Was that really Louise Brooks in her later years.Thanks for the video.
Wonderful! Thank you. Would love to have known her...such fun
Why no mention of Dame Mae Fishman? film actress who became famous alongside her friends Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand. She distanced herself from the Hollywood limelight and lived alone, but her peers still remembered her fondly. Ronald Reagan, another actor, called her the best actress of his time. Fishman died in 1981, and her legacy continues to inspire aspiring actors. She is an iconic figure who symbolizes an unforgettable era in film history.
There's something about her. I like watching and listening to her in her 70's as much as watching her in a silent movie.
Clara was soo cute:)
I read her story years ago...I'm still fascinated...
Ariane I love your 'Bob' haircut you could be a double for Louise Brooks!!!
@@tommihail6564 aaah thank you!
ah yes, thanks :-) Great narrating voice
I can't recall the comedian, but, he did a very funny bit; it was his (voice impression) of James Mason as the Honeymooner's Ralph Kramden.
They are amazing.
Her charm seems to come across through the camera. She is so cute.
she was abeauty
Clara was good, but Louise was great. With only few surviving films...Louise blew them all away with sheer facial expressions. Not looking for a hero cookie ...but I laid flowers on Louise' grave in Rochester. She was beautiful and nutz right up until she passed. She did things HER way without compromise. I wish more women had the same amount of balls these days. She did it 100 years earlier. Nuff said.
The entire series of Adela Rogers St. Johns interviews with Clara Bow can be read on-line.
I wish there was an interview of her
Wish to hear he voice, see her smile etc.
Thought so. You Brits have actors with great distinctive voices, Lawrence Olivier, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, William Henry Platt ( aka Boris Karloff ) and Cary Grant.
pure legend
That is definitely James Mason doing the narration. I'd know his voice anywhere.
Methinks it's James Mason.
Gee Einstein I would have never known that was J Mason without your constant reminder.
Thanks for this treat again.
Louise is great and gets so much attention, but Clara had more humanity and sparkle as did Colleen Moore, to whom Louise owed not a little. The only reason Colleen’s name is less bandied about is that MOMA took poor care of her films and many deteriorated. A sad loss for film history. Colleen was the biggest star of her day. Clara, too.
Sounds like we got James Mason here as the narrator......Sure thing
Cannot mistake his sterling speaking voice
Yes, it's James Mason and the documentary is called Hollywood A Celebration of the American Silent Film.
"It" was filmed in 1927
Jessica lafortuna thanks
"It" was filmed from October 7 to November 6, 1926. It was released to the general public on February 19, 1927. 😁😁😁😁😁 💘💘💘💘💘 💖💖💖💖💖 💞💞💞💞💞 💋💋💋💋💋
Only her "voice" was, and it had to be! Clara Bow had a very strong Bronx accent and it prevented her from going into the 'talking' pictures, as they were known at the time! The Physical Look of Betty Boop is Clara Bow! The sound is Helen Kane. Betty Boop IS the 1920's as is Clara Bow who is forever in that time!
Shhh! I'm Watching Silent Films. That's funny cos she was from Brooklyn
Yes from Brooklyn......she chose to leave Hollywood.....and her voice was fine and did several talkies where the accent was not as noticeable.
She had a Bronx accent although she was from Brooklyn....ummm
I believe is was James Mason who narrated it. he has a distinct voice.. had.
I know it as "Hollywood" also seen it listed as "The Big Picture Show"
Thames Production
Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film
Louise still looked cute.
f'n fabulous
the narrator is James Mason .
So true!
When were these interviews done? Looks like c.1970
Late 70's most of them. The doco was made in 1981 I think.
Lulu refused to play the Hollywood 'game' and she paid the price for that. She was a very feisty woman with string convictions.
@Goldenageofcinema is there someway I can site this video as a source for a project?
Ironically Elinor Glyn, authoress of "It," appeared not to have it herself.
Yes, I believe she had, 'that'.
🌹🌹🌹❤️❤️❤️R.I.P.
That IS James Mason.
So Clara Bow was the original It before Pennywise.
I mention Bow in The Celebrity Song.
Again, read any statement by Fleischer studios, and the admit that Helen Kane was the model for Betty....She even PLAYED Betty in a Fliecsher short film....then later sued them for copying her look and sound.
Oops! Wait, im wrong...i just read bettu boop is based on Helen Kane. Anywho, back to clara bow. Captivating!
topnotchhumanoid1 NO ! Betty Boop was Based on CLARA BOW !!
@@bwayland1290 WRONG!!!!! Helen Kane was the inspiration for Betty Boop, not Clara. Girls like Helen Kane were inspired by Clara's style of dress, makeup, attitude, all of it.
Louis brooks
She is the only "It girl".
Is there a name for these series on old Hollywood?
@PlayIt4MeAgainSam ,
I have seen several of her sound films. There was nothing wrong with her voice. She comes across as sort of a short, cuddly Geena Davis.
Early sound films often had poor recording. Saturday Night Kid is awful. Wild Party is very good, in spite of being the sound debut of just about everyone involved. I have not seen Dangerous Curves, which is supposed to be her best picture.
The only thing I can say about that (And I DO agree with you) is this was a different time - looking with hindsight is always difficult if one's to keep balance (just look at the many fools, to-day, who act like little children - because earlier times - even 20+ years ago - had different morals/standards, and they're 'horrifed' f them. ePople in the next few decades will look at THEM, as the crazies they are/were)..
If you've seen films - up even ''til the early 50's-ish, you'll see a good number of actors who sound very 'theatrical' in their speech (there's uite a few actors from the states, who'd americans would swear were British, when in fact, it was their theatrical, stage training)
'Natural' speech wasn't the norm, so, many people of even the past few decades would've found it difficult (Barbra Streisand's another Brooklynite, with a very pronounced 'tawking' voice).
It was when Strasberg, and the 'method' came into style (Brando, et al), and they were known as...(anybody know?)...the 'mumblers'.
You should revise your classics. Clara Bow was chosen to play in "It", a famous story written by Elinor Glyn at that time and the writer chose her as the "It girl". Louise Brooks is also a jazz baby, but she is not the "It girl".
I have seen an interview with Elinor Glyn......where she says sure to Clara Bow being the IT girl for $50,000 ...... but then after meeting her in person, she says Clara had an abundance of "IT". So in her mind Clara was the IT Girl.
I know that narrator! Ray Milland. Another screen icon.
He and James Mason do sound alike.
were those paintings of clara as a little girl?
WHERE IS PART 2 ??????
Actually, Betty Boop was modelled after singer Helen Kane
Actually that is not really true.......Helen Kane even lost a court case claiming that. Betty Boop was a combination of people and styles. Please read up on the court case filed in 1932 and heard in 1934.
At age 18 she had made 23 films.
Damn. They chewed her up and spit her out. A prototype of Hollywood sex symbols, they never changed the plot...
music name ? please
Just look at Betty or Helen Kanes hair, identical! (Clara's hair was completely different) Furthermore, both Helen and Betty had chubby bodies and jowly round faces (Which isnt to say that Helen Kane wasnt cute, she just wasnt the "classic beauty"), while Clara had high cheekbones and a lithe dancer's body!
"It is increasingly becoming clear that child sexual abuse (CSA) is a much more prevalent phenomenon than has been understood till now. Even celebrities have been sexually abused by their parents and other relatives. When the American actress Clara Bow (1905-1965) was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1949, doctors found out that she had been raped by her father at a young age."
(AGGRAWAL, Anil - Forensic and Medico-legal Aspects of Sexual Crimes and Unusual Sexual Practices (2008). pg. 47)
Why didn't she fight Sutherland on the matter? She didn't care for him anyway? Maybe Louise was a little snobby herself. That superior attitude Ruth St Denis spoke of.
No, Lulu was anything but snobby. She was a class act and left Hollywood on *her* own terms. She refused to play the Hollywood system and that's why we have so few films of her. A great pity.
Louise brooks
lloise bro
Jaaajaja....espero que la próxima vez que vea este video, ya entienda el inglés :(
@KittyKattyYukiLvr I've heard her voice also. She had strong "nasal" tone to it. They were willing to work with her, (voice coach, etc), and 're-make' it, however, they had enough with her behavior, or "'indecent' reputation".
Shhh!, That's not the reality. I've seen a few of her films with sound and her voice wasn't an issue. Clara chose to leave Hollywood and go live in the desert with her husband. She did return a few times and made a few successful films when she did but her heart was no longer in it and she left again for good. As the years went by, Clara developed mental health issues.
9:34 - this is unrealistic. He resists her.
But it's unexpected, as opposed to every other scene with her and a guy. So it has a potential.
Betty boop was based on her actually :) well, clara bow and....i dont remember...jean harlow? I have to double check
topnotchhumanoid1 Betty Boop was based on CLARA BOW !!!!
Jean Harlow was a platinum blonde, her hair longer than Betty Boop's.
Louise Brooks died a broke and bitter woman in Rochester, New York.
How was she 'bitter'?
@@BeanieScooter She wasn't bitter. She was realistic about her film career and what happened to her due to the fact she refused to play the 'Hollywood Game'. She paid the price for doing so.
@@prudencepineapple9448 I agree. Wonder why Thomas Sperduti posted that. She wasn't broke during her life in Rochester, either.
They overacted like crazy back them because they didn't have the extra tools of sound and dialogue to help them.
These movies suck!!!
So true!