LIFE STORIES OF PARAMOUNT STARS
NO. I.—CLARA BOW. This Paramount star, unknown three years ago, is now the most popular actress on the screen. Miss Bow receives no less than 33,000 letters per month, more than 1,000 per day. She epitomises the spirit and zest of fascinating youth; she is known the world over as the 44 1 t” girl. She is Clara Bow, Paramount star. Miss Bow was sixteen years old and attending Bay Ridge School in Brooklyn New York, when she won first award in a frame and fortune sponsored by a newspaper. The prize consisted of three outfits of clothes and a part in a film production.
So Clara Bow entered the films with a small part in a picture called 4 4 Beyond the Rainbow.” However, when the picture was shown on the screen it was without Clara Bow, and after such a poor beginning she went back to school.
She had almost given up all hope of a movie career when she was offered a part in “Down to the Sea in Ships.” The picture made her name, and she has risen steadily since then, in popular favour, until to-day Miss Bow is now starring exclusively in Paramount pictures, her latest production being “Red Hair” which has just been released in New Zealand.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 237, 6 October 1928, Page 19 (Supplement)
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