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Go to patreon.com slash Malton on movies for more information. That. You're listening to Malton on movies. And I'm solo today. Jesse is indisposed. I'm sorry to say. But she'll be fine. She'll be back on our next broadcast. Is it a broadcast? It's a cast of some sort. Our next podcast. My guest today is somebody that I admire greatly. He's a friend and a colleague and a fellow author. And he is the author of two definitive biographies. Clara Bow, Run and Wild Wild, and Bombshell, The Life and Death of Gene Harlow.

And if you don't have both of those books on your bookshelf, you're missing out.

Not just as reference, because they're good for that, but they're great reading.

And my guest's name is David Sten.

Welcome, David.

Thank you, Leonard.

And the admiration is entirely mutual.

Well, I'll take that. Thank you.

And I can date our friendship because I think it was the Clara Bow book that got us in touch with each other because

I wanted to promote it on Entertainment Tonight. And that was 1988. Yes, but I'd known you

without personally knowing you for a long time since childhood because I read your books

over and over again and I wanted to know somebody who had seen all those movies because I read your books over and over again, and I wanted to know somebody who had seen all

those movies because all of those movies were rated.

So I thought, well, he's not only knows about all of them, but he's seen all of them.

Still trying to catch up with myself.

Still trying.

Well, now that I'm of a certain age, I'm revisiting films

that I saw so long ago. It's like, you know, making new friends, you know, every day.

The other night, TCM were showing bombshell, which is a tough film to turn off.

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