ORIGINAL 1920S CLARA BOW AUTOGRAPHED PICTURE MINT L@@K Start Price USD 5,999.00 Current Price USD 5,999.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Saturday, June 28, 2008 End Time Tuesday, July 08, 2008 Location CLEVELAND OHIO See more about 'ORIGINAL 1920S CLARA BOW AUTOGRAPHED PICTURE MINT L@@K' Description   YOU MOVIE FANS OF THE SILENT BLACK AND WHITE FILMS HERE YOU GO A ORIGINAL 1920'S CLARA BOW AUTOGRAPHED PICTURE MINT CONDITION.ON THE FRONT OF THE PICTURE IS STATES "TO COMPANY 78 WITH VERY BEST WISHES CLARA BOW" .THIS IS TRULY A TREASURE GOOGLE SEARCH THESE AND YOU WILL SEE THAT A TRUE ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPHED PHOTO OF CLARA BOW WILL COST YOU UP IN THE FIGURES OF $6500.00 .THIS IS AUTHENTIC AND ORIGINAL. ADD $15.00 FOR SHIPPING IN THE U.S.A. THE SHIPPING IS SO HIGH TO COVER INSURANCE AND CONFIRMATION.THIS IS A GEM 9X7.5 BLACK AND WHITE PICTURE. BELOW I HAVE SOME GOOGLE INFORMATION ON CLARA BOW. ADDITIONAL FEES FOR GOING OVER SEAS.this signed photo is in relationship to the movie wings 1918 TO 1922 VINTAGE. THANKS FOR LOOKING AND HAPPY BIDDING. Clara Bow (born July 29, 1907; died September 27 1965) was an American actress and sex symbol, best known for her film work in the 1920s and early 1930s. To some, Bow was the era's archetype of the flapper. Early Life Bow was born in a tenement in Brooklyn, New York, the only surviving child of a dysfunctional family afflicted with mental illness and Dickensian poverty and physical and emotional abuse. She was the third daughter born to her parents. The first two children were stillborn. Clara's mother had hope that Clara would also die at birth and didn't bother with a birth certificate. Her mother, Sarah Gordon, was an occassional prostitute who was mentally ill as well as an epileptic, and was noted for her public and frequent affairs with local firemen. Her father, Robert Bow, was rarely present and may have been mentally retarded; Whenever he returned home, he was verbally and physically abusive to both wife and daughter. When he left them, Sarah would turn 'tricks' (have sex) for food money, locking Clara in a closet whenever a customer was in the apartment. Clara's father Robert reportedly raped Clara when she was 15 years old. Early Career By her mid-teens, young Clara Bow was working as an actress, having dropped out of school at the age of seven. Sara told Clara acting was for whores. She had taken to sneaking up behind her and saying she would kill her because she would be better off dead. Clara won the Fame and Fortune contest in 1921. The prize was a part in the film Beyond The Rainbow. Clara needed two photographs in order to enter the contest. She begged her father for the money and he took her to a cheap studio. She hated the results, but the contest judges were impressed. After numerous screen tests, Clara was selected the winner. She won a part in Beyond the Rainbow (1922), but to her humiliation and disappointment, her scenes were cut from the final print and were not seen until the film was restored in later years. Clara also had her mother to deal with. One night, she awoke to find her holding a butcher knife to her throat. She lay still until her mother collapsed to the floor in a seizure. As a result of the episode, she suffered insomnia for the rest of her life. Stardom Bow's screen introduction wasn't until her next film Down to the Sea in Ships . This being the Roaring 20s, all of her early films were on the silent movies. She was selected as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1924. The movie through which she broke out into cinematic stardom was 1925's The Plastic Age , written by feminist silent-era screenwriter Frederica Sagor Maas. She soon became known for her expressiveness, spontaneity, and ability to project sexuality and self-mocking humor. Bow made an astonishing 58 motion pictures in 11 years. She would become the most famous redheads of the silent film era. Fame and Fortune Now Clara began appearing in small movie roles. All the while, she suffered guilty feelings over her mother's disapproval. In 1923, she was on the set when she learned that her mother had died. Clara was devastated, she felt that her acting was somehow responsible for her death.Clara got her big break when an officer of Preferred Pictures approached her on the set. He offered her free train fare to go make a screen test in Hollywood. She agreed to make the trip. The first time Preferred Pictures head B.P. Schulberg saw disheveled Clara Bow in her one ragged dress, he was dismayed. He was reluctant to even let her make a screen test, but when she finally did, the results astounded him. She was already adept at pantomime and she could cry on command.Starting with Maytime (1923), Schulberg cast her in a series of small roles. She nearly always stole her scenes. However, instead of creating projects for her, he loaned her out to other studios for easy money.Now that Clara was making money, she brought her father to live with her in Hollywood. For the next few years, she funded numerous failed business ventures for him, including a restaurant and a dry cleaners. He soon became a drunken nuisance on her sets, where he would try to pick up young girls by telling them his daughter was Clara Bow.Despite her unwanted relative, Clara during this time of her career was adored on her sets. Throughout this portion of her career, crew members always seemed to fall in love with her. She was friendly, generous, and so grateful for her success that she always remained humble.In 1925, Schulberg cast Clara in The Plastic Age. The movie was a huge hit, and Clara was suddenly the studio's most popular star. She also began to date her co-star Gilbert Roland. He would be the first of many engagements for flirtatious Clara. Place a Bid!