Clara Bow (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 11)

You Must Remember This

Karina Longworth

Tv & Film

4.7 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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We’ll close this half of our Hollywood Babylon season with one of that book’s most famously distorted stories: the tale of “It” Girl Clara Bow’s supposed nymphomania and alleged “tackling” of the entire USC football team. The real story of Clara Bow’s life and career is a much richer tale, involving changing sexual mores, and the change in the audience’s tastes that overlapped with the end of the silent era. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.4	Qur'an Ayurveda
0:05.8	Uly SAMU
0:28.8	Welcome
0:30.1	To another episode of You Must Remember This, the podcast dedicated to exploring the secret
0:38.8	and or forgotten stories of Hollywood's first century.
0:44.5	I'm your host, Karina Longworth.
0:47.8	And this is another installment in our ongoing series, Fake News, Fact Checking Hollywood
0:57.6	Babylon.
1:03.3	Great films of the silent years.
1:06.1	This isn't news. This is totally unfounded gossip.
1:09.8	It's a long way from Hollywood.
1:11.7	Criticized for dealing too fritely with such themes as sex and nudity.
1:16.5	Hollywood, Babylon.
1:18.3	Today, we will close the first half of the Hollywood Babylon project by tackling, no pun intended,
1:32.6	one of the most notorious stories in Kenneth Engers' gossip Bible.
1:39.1	One of the biggest female stars of the 1920s, Clara Boww did not invent the on-screen
1:45.8	flapper. We've already talked about the olive Thomas film The Flapper from 1920, and three
1:52.1	years later came another landmark depiction, Flaming Youth, starring Colleen Moore.
1:58.7	But Clara Boww remains better remembered than either Thomas or Moore, in part because
2:03.8	more of her films survive, in part because one of those films gave her the incredibly
2:08.9	sticky nickname of The It Girl, and in part because of stories about her personal life,
2:16.7	like the ones circulated by Kenneth Enger.
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