Episode 382 - Clara Bow Part 4

Hollywood Crime Scene

Rachel Fisher

True Crime, Comedy

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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In the conclusion to our series we discuss Clara's scandals, legal drama, final films, and more.

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to Hollywood crime scene. This is Rachel Fisher. This is Desi Jadikin.
0:04.6	Doesi? Yes. We are concluding our series on Clara Bow today.
0:10.1	This is part four. Our main source for this episode is the book Run and Wild by David Sten.
0:19.0	I also read a lot of old newspapers.
0:21.5	We will get into that later.
0:23.8	Where we last left off, it's 1929.
0:27.9	Clara is dating actor, singer, nightclub owner, Harry Richmond, and she's getting bored of him.
0:34.7	Oh.
0:35.4	I never figured out what that omelet was. Oh, that's right. But that was
0:42.4	like a real ick moment for her. He's the omelette guy and the guy who keeps buying her really large
0:47.1	things. Like the Great Dane and the rug. And the piano. Right. She was also recently profiled in Photo Play Magazine, and they portrayed her as this really sad, messy little girl.
1:00.2	We read part of that at the end of last week's episode.
1:04.6	Despite being engaged to Harry, it wasn't long before she met a new guy.
1:10.0	Actor Rex Bell.
1:11.8	Okay.
1:12.4	This guy really looks like Jake Lacey.
1:15.1	Oh, wow.
1:16.6	Yeah.
1:17.8	And yes, she started dating him before she broke it off with Harry.
1:22.2	That's her style.
1:24.4	Clara and Rex met on this set of her 1930 film, True to the Navy.
1:30.0	Meanwhile, press for Clara's personal life is not good. Her promiscuity is the subjects of jokes,
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