Americans Roared In The 1920s: An Account Of The Career Of Clara Bow The Actress
For many Americans, the 1920s were a time of hope and a time for fun and enjoyment
. They agreed with one of the most popular sayings of the time, "every day in every way, things are getting better and better". It was a time when most people coming from the First World War wanted to relax and enjoy themselves.These hopeful Americans pointed to signs of progress in around. Women"s new right to vote was one sign of this progress. Americans also were proud that technology was producing so many new wonders. Technology is defined in these terms as the use of tools and knowledge to solve practical problems and to help people live better. Americans were made better by technology. They bought new products "" refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, radios, electric washing machines, and cars which were being made more and more inexpensive. It was a general view that American workers had better job conditions. Jobs were plentiful and the pay was good.
It was a time when people listened to new sounds. People relaxed in the soothing sounds of jazz and the blues. Millions people were hooked to movie theatres and listened to the first talkie films. A new invention called radio brought news, sports, and comedy right into a family"s living room.
Radio, movies, and sports made new national heroes. Babe Ruth was baseball"s greatest hero. Swimming champion Gertrude Ederle became a sports hero too. It was an era where people appreciated sport. Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey in boxing excited fans. Helen Wills and Bill Tilden in tennis did the same. Football fanatics enjoyed watching Red Grange and Jim Thorpe. And the Mickey Mouse cartoon character was born in 1928.
Clara Bow, popular film star of the 1920s best known as "The "It" Girl," was America"s first real sex symbol.
Bow grew up in a household of poverty, violence and mental illness. She escaped her circumstances by entering her photo and winning a movie magazine contest, with the top prize being the chance to appear in a small role in the film, "Beyond the Rainbow" (1922).
Despite her difficult beginning, Bow worked steadily in films through the 1920s, typically appeared in supporting roles in films that were described as "domestic melodramas," with an occasional comedy. The type of films she appeared in can best be described simply by listing some of the titles "" "Enemies of Women" (1923), "Grit" (1924), "Poisoned Paradise"(1924), daughters of pleasure, (1924) empty sex (1925), "Eve"s Lover" (1925), "Lawful Cheaters" (1925), "Parisian Love" (1925), "Kiss Me Again" (1925), "Free to Love" (1925), "My Lady"s Lips" (1925), "Two Can Play" (1926) and "Mantrap" (1926).
Bow was known as "The It Girl," with "it" usually meaning sex appeal. Bow also appeared in "Wings" (1927), which won the first Academy Award as Best Picture. Bow continued to appear in films as the often-wild women who knows what she wants, and gets it, including "Get Your Man" (1927), "The Fleet"s In" (1928), "The Wild Party" (1929), "Dangerous Curves" (1929), "Her Wedding Night" (1930), "No Limit" (1931) and "Call Her Savage" (1932). When sound films became popular in the early 1930s, Bow"s thick Brooklyn accent was a severe handicap. Her last film was "Hoopla" (1933).
Clara Bow personifies the attitudes and tastes of the 1920s. One website describes Clara Bow this way;
Clara Bow became a major star in 1925 and soon became the "It" Girl. She was known to be wild and sexy and care free"the perfect flapper! Oddly she didn"t constantly go for the bow but the look became associated with her. Before Clara it was the "Cupids Bow". Now it was Clara"s (punny).
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