The Light of Stardom in Clara Bow

We are taking it back to the 1920s (and then the 1970s) today with Clara Bow from The Tortured Poets Department. Uncle Jerry talks all about the early film industry, Stevie Nicks, the violence of beauty and fame for women, and so much more. 

Works Cited:

Clara Bow

The Jazz Singer (1927)

Greta Garbo

Douglas Fairbanks

John Gilbert

Michael Curtiz

Casablanca (1942)

The Lodger (1947)

World’s Columbian Exposition (1893)

The Birth of a Nation (1915)

It (1927)

It – Elinor Glyn – Aff Link

Caesura

Horatio Alger

Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller

A Cool Million – Nathanael West – Aff Link

The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus – Christopher Marlowe

To an Athlete Dying Young – A. E. Housman

Idle Fame – John Clare

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson – Aff Link

Fame is a fickle food (1659) – Emily Dickinson

Fame is a bee. (1788) – Emily Dickinson

Mirrorball/Clara Bow Mash-up

The Swiftie and The Scholar Grading Matrix

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