Blythe-a-Day May#13 Run for Your Life: Clara Bow Makes an Escape

"You better run for your life if you can, little girl

Hide your head in the sand little girl

Catch you with another man

That's the end, little girl..."*

 

During the Jazz Age:

 

Hollywood's 'It' Girl, Clara Bow, sometimes had to make a quick getaway from her wild nights on the town. So many boyfriends, so many (illegal) drinks at shady nightspots--those things could create bad publicity. The public wanted to think of Clara as a daring flapper but not as fun-crazed and boy-crazy trollop.

 

Thus, Clara learned to stay ahead of troublesome publicity by doing such things as climbing out of a back window when an out of control party or a crackdown on a speakeasy brought the police--followed quickly pesky photographers--to break up the boisterous hi-jinks.

 

"I know when I need to scram," said Clara, here seen climbing from a window, "and I know how to do it--quick!"

 

*"Run for Your Life" by The Beatles, primarily written by John Lennon (credited to Lennon-McCartney)

 

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