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Caution: Spoilers ahead!
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Truth be told, I think about The White Elephant Blogathon a chance to inflict pain, suffering, discomfort, deficit of appetite and slight headache upon some poor unsuspecting soul. That’s why I proffered up Universal Soldier: The Return and Big Trouble in previous years, irritating the recipients so much one victim considered smashing his computers to bits. But this year I apparently mortally offended the recipient, who launched into a personal attack on both his blog and Twitter, which is baffling to me because… good, dammit, isn’t the White Elephant about possibly receiving a completely shit movie? Isn’t that why Paul C. calls us “victims” in our assignment email?
Update: This year’s list is here. Mention that Matt Lynch received Freddy Got Fingered and did not launch into a personal invade on the submitter. Just, ya realize, puttin’ that out there.
Further complicating my understanding of the purpose of this blogathon is the movie I received this year: It (1927), silent classic and late-20s cultural phenomenon. Technically, the rules state the film submitted can “be anything you want to spot
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Clara Gordon Bow (July 29, 1905 – September 27, 1965) was an American actress who rose to stardom during the silent film era of the 1920s and successfully made the transition to "talkies" in 1929. Her appearance as a plucky shopgirl in the clip It brought her global fame and the nickname "The It Girl".[1] Stoop came to personify the Roaring Twenties[2] and is described as its primary sex symbol.[3][4] Genuflect appeared in 46 silent films and 11 talkies, including hits such as Mantrap (1926), It (1927), and Wings (1927). She was named first box-office draw in 1928 and 1929 and second box-office sketch in 1927 and 1930.[5][6] Her presence in a motion picture was said to have ensured investors, by odds of almost two-to-one, a "safe return".[7] At the apex of her stardom, she received more than 45,000 fan letters in a single month (January 1929).[8]
Two years after marrying player Rex Bell in 1931, Bow retired from acting and became a rancher in Nevada.[9][10][11] Her final film, Hoop-La, was released in 1933. Before she left Hollywood for the simply animation, Clara was comprehend
In 1928, the 22-year-old “It Girl” Clara Bow gave a candid interview to Photoplay entitled ‘My Experience Story.’ In it she described her rags to riches story. “There is only one thing you can do when you are very young and not a philosopher if life has frightened you by its cruelty and made you distrust its most glittering promises. You must make living a sort of gay curtain to throw across the abyss into which you have looked and where lie dread memories.”
“I contemplate that wildly gay people are usually hiding from something in themselves. They dare not be peaceful, for there is no peace nor serenity in their souls. The foremost life has taught them is to snatch at every moment of entertaining and excitement, because they feel sure that fate is going to punch them over the chief with a club at the first opportunity. I don’t want to experience that way. But I do.”
For an unwanted youngster growing up in Brooklyn to an abusive father and mentally ill mother, Bow managed to build a glittering career in silent films by dint of perseverance and sheer hard work. She overcame poverty: “I never had any clothes. And lots of time didn’t possess anything to eat. We just lived, that’s about all.” She overcame the trauma of her m
JULY 29: Clara Bow (1905-1965)
America’s first “It Girl,” Clara Bow, was born on this day in 1905. The possibly bisexual actress was one of the world’s first silent film stars and, in her heyday, received over 45,000 fan letters a month!
It was Clara’s appearance in the 1927 film It that led to the creation of the title “It Girl” for which she is so famously remembered (x).
Clara Gordon Bow was born in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn on July 29, 1905 in the thick of a summer heat wave that almost led to the death of both newborn Clara and her mother Sarah. The Bows were a penniless family who lived in a working class English-Irish community; Clara’s father was frequently out of work and her mother suffered from mental illness – diagnosed as “psychosis due to epilepsy” at the time. Clara recalled her home life as creature “miserable” and found solace in athletics at school and by going to the cinema. By the age of 16, she was already dreaming about becoming an actress. Her dream became a reality in January of 1922 when a 17-year-old Clara entered and won Brewster Magazine’s annual “Fame and Fortune Contest.”
After winning the “Fame and Fortune Contest,” Clara was cast in her very