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

You Must Remember This

• Episode: 131: Clara Bow (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 11)
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• Duration: 01:03:45
• Published: 2018-09-11 06:00

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.