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- Clara Paget was born on 12 September 1988 in London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Fast & Furious 6 (2013), Black Sails (2014) and One Day (2011). She has been married to Oscar Tuttiett since 17 July 2021.
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Clara Gordon Bow, destined to become "The It Girl", was born on July 29, 1905 in Brooklyn, New York, and was raised in poverty and violence. Her often absentee and brutish father could not or did not provide and her schizophrenic mother tried to slit Clara's throat when the girl spoke of becoming an actress. Bow, nonetheless, won a photo beauty contest which launched her movie career that would eventually number 58 films, from 1922 to 1933.
The movie It (1927) defined her career. The film starred Clara as a shopgirl who was asked out by the store's owner. As you watch the silent film you can see the excitement as she prepared for her date with the boss, her friend trying hard to assist her. She used a pair of scissors to modify her dress to try to look "sexier." The movie did much to change society's mores as there were only a few years between World War I and Clara Bow, but this movie went a long way in how society looked at itself. Clara was flaming youth in rebellion. In the film she presented a worldly wisdom that somehow sex meant having a good time. But the movie shouldn't mislead the viewer, because when her boss tries to kiss her goodnight, she slaps him. At the height of her popularity she received over 45,000 fan letters a month. Also, she was probably the most overworked and underpaid star in the industry. With the coming of sound, her popularity waned. Clara was also involved in several court battles ranging from unpaid taxes to being in divorce court for "stealing" women's husbands. After the court trials, she made a couple of attempts to get back in the public eye. One was Call Her Savage (1932) in 1932. It was somewhat of a failure at the box office and her last was in 1933 in a film called Hoopla (1933).
She then married cowboy star Rex Bell at 26 and retired from the film world at 28. She doted on her two sons and did everything to please them. Haunted by a weight problem and a mental imbalance, she never re-entered show business. She was confined to sanitariums from time to time and prohibited access to her beloved sons. She died of a heart attack in West Los Angeles, on September 26, 1965 at age 60. Today she is finding a renaissance among movie buffs, who are recently discovering the virtues of silent film. The actress who wanted so much to be like the wonderful young lady in It (1927) has the legacy of her films to confirm that she was a wonderful lady and America's first sex symbol.- Actress
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Clara Rugaard was born on 5 December 1997 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She is an actress and producer, known for Love Gets a Room (2021), I Am Mother (2019) and Black Mirror (2011).- Clara Alexandrova is known for Alert: Missing Persons Unit (2023), A Million Little Things (2018) and Danger in the Dorm.
- Clara Galle was born on 15 April 2002 in Pamplona, Spain. She is an actress, known for Through My Window (2022), The Boarding School: Las Cumbres (2021) and Through My Window: Looking at You (2024).
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Clara Lago was born on March 6, 1990 in Madrid, a suburb of the Spanish capital of Madrid. Her father was a graphic designer, and her mother was a writer-a storyteller, so that craving for the creative professions was passed to the girl by inheritance. One of the friends of her father, who worked as a television producer, invited her to try in the cinema. As she was still very young, she took the initiative as interesting game, the casting was acting freely, easily communicated with the chambers and employees of the television station, so quite easy passed the audition. Acting career Clara Lago began when she was barely 8 years old. The girl took part in the filming of the television series Partners, which was released on television screens in 1998. After 2 years, starred in the TV series Hospital Central (2000), and is voiced by another actress in the TV movie Terca vida (2000) In cinema Clara debuted in 2002. 12-year-old girl played a major role in the film El viaje de Carol (2002) by the Spanish Director Imanol Uribe. For playing this motion picture Carla received a Goya award as best actress. Then again followed by a cameo role in the film La vida que te espera (2004) in 2004, Arena en los bolsillos (2006) in 2006, El club de los suicidas (2007) in 2007 and The Hanged Man (2008) in 2008. In the same period he published two series featuring Clara Lago is quite popular in Spain Clara Lago, where the actress plays the woman, as well as crime series-drama Lex (2008). Breakthrough for Clara Lago was the psychological Thriller The Hidden Face (2011), released in 2011. She got the main female role Belem, girls womanizer-conductor, whom she decides to teach, but substitutes itself. After this picture of the young actress offered another main role of Ginevra in the continuation of the acclaimed melodrama [link=tt1797504. The film was nominated to receive the prestigious Goya award, and Lago has received numerous rave reviews. Interestingly, in this film she performed as a singer, taking part in the recording of the soundtrack. The film includes 2 songs in her performance: La Cama and Aunque tú no lo sepas. Also in 2012 he published psychological fiction drama The End (2012) in which Clara Lago again gets the main role - the girls of eve, which remains one of the last surviving people on the planet, she was destined to see disappear to her friends and family. The film had quite good commercial success. The latest work Clara Lago today is the family Comedy Spanish Affair (2014), which has taken in $ 77 million, breaking all records of Spanish films. Clara plays one of two main roles - a girl Amaya from the Basque Country. Clara Lago enjoys dancing and regularly attends a dance Studio, with a particular interest in Pilates. In addition, she is the face of companies like Hoss Intropia and Color. Also participated in promotional photo shoots and videos brands such as InStyle, YoDona, Telva and Elle.- Actress
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Clara McGregor was born on 4 February 1996 in England, UK. She is an actress and producer, known for Christopher Robin (2018), The Birthday Cake (2021) and Reefa (2021).- Clara Blandick was an American actress born as Clara Dickey and born aboard an American ship off the coast of Hong Kong on June 4, 1880. Little is known about her early life until she became an actress. She grew up in Boston and first acted on stage in E.H. Sothern's 'Richard Lovelace'. Although she appeared in 118 films, she was primarily a stage actress. She began her film career at a late age. She was 33 when she was picked for the role as Emily Mason in Mrs. Black Is Back (1914). Her next film was The Stolen Triumph (1916), after which she returned to the stage, where she seemed more comfortable. She did not make another film until the age of 48, when she appeared in Poor Aubrey (1930).
She had only three films under her belt by this time but would appear in more than 100 over the next 20 years. She made nine films in 1930, and thirteen the following year. The role that was to immortalize her, however, was "Auntie Em" in The Wizard of Oz (1939). She continued in films until 1950, when she appeared on the screen for the final time in Key to the City (1950).
By this time Blandick had been suffering from poor health for years, especially painful arthritis and failing eyesight, and retired from the screen. On Palm Sunday, April 15, 1962, aged 85, she went to church in Hollywood. When she returned she wrote a note stating she was about to take the greatest adventure of her life. She took an overdose of sleeping tablets and pulled a plastic bag over her head, thus ending her life. - Actress
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Clara Wong was born in Skokie, Illinois, USA. She is an actress, known for Billions (2016), Louie (2010) and The Eyes of My Mother (2016).- Actress
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Clara Rosager was born on 11 November 1996 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She is an actress and writer, known for Morbius (2022), Misbehaviour (2020) and Before the Frost (2018).- Actress
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Clara Mamet is a multi-hyphenate with her work as a director, writer and actress. Clara has sold projects to IFC, Amazon and HBO. She has staffed on Nicolas Winding Refn's MANIAC COP for HBO and the upcoming drama series the IDOL co-created by Sam Levinson, The Weeknd and Reza Fahim (again, for HBO.) She is also the creator of NELL IF GIRL, a new project which she is currently developing with Kevin Turen.
Clara made her debut as a playwright in 2012 at age 17, with two one-act plays in which she also starred, Paris and The Solvit Kids, produced at the Ruskin Group Theatre in Santa Monica, CA. Clara's debut feature film, Two Bit Waltz, which she wrote, directed and starred in with Jared Gilman, Rebecca Pidgeon, David Paymer, and William H. Macy premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2014.
Clara's acting credits include Universal's Neighbors 2 opposite Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne directed by Nicholas Stoller, Todd Solondz's Wiener-Dog, Lord and Miller's Son of Zorn and Neighbors at ABC.
Clara will commence directing her sophomore feature, Potash, with Wheelhouse Productions (France).- Clara Batten is known for A Christmas Number One (2021) and Secret Act.
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- Clara Wilsey is a model and actress who has starred in Tall Girl, Through April and Ballers.
Wilsey grew up in Napa, California. She was discovered as a model when she attended a trade show in Miami. Since then she has gone on to work around the world with some of the biggest names in fashion, starring in publications such as GQ and embarking on international campaigns with beauty and fashion brands. In 2019 she launched her career as a television actress, appearing in an episode of HBO's Ballers as well as being cast as a main character in Netflix original film Tall Girl. Wilsey plays a high school mean girl in the hugely popular movie, which was streamed an incredible 40 million times in its first four weeks of release.
Clara has recently appeared in the upcoming movie Above The Line and stars as a main character in the upcoming show Pretty Desperate. - Actress
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Clara Bellar was born and raised in Paris, France. Other than French, she speaks English, German, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese.
Clara is a stage actress who came to the attention of French film director Eric Rohmer during her performance in Sleeping Beauty. This lead to a collaboration between Bellar and Rohmer in their co-writing of a film, Rendezvous in Paris. The film was based upon Clara's own life experiences. Rohmer cast her as the lead actress in his film.
This led to her future roles in the films, Oranges Ameres, Romance and Rejection, and This Space Between Us, Sleepy Time Gal and David.
As a stage actress, Clara produced and starred in A Flea In Her Ear at the Stages Theater Center in Hollywood. This play received the notable aware of the 2001 Ovation AWard for Best Translation and Adaptation and being named one of the Ten Best Productions of the Year in the Daily News.
Acting in theater since 1989 her theater work also includes, Le Kabaret de la Derni re Chance; La Belle au Bois Dormant; Le Triangle de Cristal; Preparadise Sorry Now; L'Herbe Amore; in France and No Exit in England. A joint US/Brazilian production of Clowns Mudos was performed in Santa Monica, California. Her 2004 dual starring role as Shen Te, a prostitute and Shui Ta, her male cousin, set in 1920s China was performed in Venice, California.
A singer, Bellar recorded an album in Portuguese, Meu Coração Brasileiro, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.- Clara Lukasiak was born as Clara Alexandra Lukasiak on August 17, 2009 in Pennsylvania, USA. Clara is an American actress, dancer, and model. She began her dance training at the age of 2 and branched into acting by the age of 7. Clara made her runway modeling debut by walking the runway for American Girl in 2015.
- Clara Bryant made her acting debut at the age of three as a street urchin in the opera, "La Boheme". Her TV debut was on Gabriel's Fire (1990), where her first screen words were in Polish. She was then chosen to play Annie, the daughter of Billy Connolly in the ABC series, Billy (1992); Clara also guest-starred on such shows as Roseanne (1988), Bob (1992) and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993). Onstage, she played Ramona in the popular children's play, 'Ramona Quimby', stepping into the role with just a few days notice.
For the AFI Women's Directing Workshop, she played the daughter of Blythe Danner in 'Miss American Beauty' as well as the lead in another indie film, 'Up Above the World So High'. As Amy in Disney's Under Wraps (1997), she became a big favorite of young viewers. Clara was later offered the challenging role of Dafi in L'amante perduto (1999) (The Lost Lover) as an Israeli girl who, torn by the conflicts within her family and society, becomes involved with a Palestinian boy.
In 2002 she starred in both Due East (2002), a Showtime original film and Disney's Tru Confessions (2002) where her performance as Tru was offered for Emmy consideration. Clara has been nominated for her acting three times by the Youth in Film/Young Artist Awards. - Clara Lee is a Korean-American actress from the Republic of Korea. Born in Switzerland, Clara is the daughter of Tom Lee (Seung Kyu Lee) and Kyung Oae Lee, a former ballerina from Europe. Tom Lee, the lead Singer of Korean musical group "Koreana," performed at the Opening ceremonies of the 1988 Seoul Olympics where they sang Olympic the official theme song, "Hand in Hand".
Clara's childhood was full of cultural diversity which made her perfectly bilingual in Korean and English since her parents has been touring around Europe for their performances. Her family then moved to Los Angeles, California where she went to high school and college. Clara had her first casting on the street of Los Angeles, then debuted as a model in a Korean Bank Campaign. With extensive casting calls from Korea, Clara decided to move to Seoul, South Korea in 2005 to begin her career as a professional model.
Finally, Clara made her first professional model debut in Korea from the "Beautiful Face Contest" at the age of 19. She made her first screen debut in advertisement "Man with flowers; Coenzyme Q10" of Somang Cosmetic, which promoted a huge surplus in Korean cosmetic society in the year of 2006. With a successful model debut, Clara was the face of nationwide advertisements of Korea such as SK Telecom, Acuvue, Pizza Hut, Shopping Mall '1 1st', Dunkin Donuts, Shin Han Bank, KTF, Sketchers, Clinique, American Apparel, AXE, Lotte, Sprite, and Toshiba. While becoming a household name in Korea, Clara has become well recognized in other parts of Asia as well.
Although highly regarded for her modeling career, Clara's acting ability caught many film directors' eyes which led to her acting debut in a TV series, "Clear Human, Choi Jang Soo." Clara continued her acting career by landing major roles in popular TV series such as "Taehee, Hyegyo, Jihyeon E," "Good Windy Day," "Please Captain," "Delicious Life," "Goddess of Marriage," and many more. She was also in major movies such as "Five Senses of Eros" and also played the main character in a Japanese movie, "Ask this of Rikyu"which was directed by Mitsubishi Tanaka and won the Art Award at the Montreal International Film Festival in 2013.
While acting, Clara became known as the Music Video heroine as well. She made appearances in some of the hottest music videos such as Korean singer Tei's "Same Pillow," Moon Hee Jun's "Toy," December's "A Story to the Sky," Jay Park's "Jo-ah," and Taiwanese Pop singer, Juno's "Nothing to Lose." Clara can also be found in many popular variety show programs such as "Saturday Night Live."
Clara's distinctive exotic beauty and a novelty of charm fascinates countless fans all across the globe. Gracing the covers of numerous magazines, Clara is not only highly demanded as an actress and model, but also an icon regarded as the new fashionista for the next generation. - Clara Helms is a graduate from W.A.A.P.A (the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts) and has extensive Speech & Drama and elocution training with A.M.E.B and Trinity College London.
She is a professional actor, who first fell in love with acting as a young girl, and has since gone on to star in 23 advertising campaigns, having leading roles in over 12 short films, 3 feature films, 3 Luxury Home Real Estate Presenter Videos, 1 TV Pilot Episode (in production), 1 Web Series, 2 music videos and a documentary. Clara also appeared as a finalist on Australia's Got Talent and has Radio and MC experience.
Clara has acted or presented for numerous prestigious brands, including: The Star, Channel 7, TAB, Studio Ten, Click Frenzy, Luna Park, UNSW, real estate companies and many more.
This talented, multi lingual beauty is passionate, vivacious on set, hardworking, reliable and would be a great addition to your project.
Clara has studied Italian, French and German at the University of Western Australia (U.W.A) and spent three months studying Italian at language school Instituto Italiano in Florence, Italy. Clara has also studied Chinese Mandarin.
Also an internationally acclaimed Pop Opera-Contemporary singer-songwriter, Clara Helms is one of Australia's most popular and sought-after talents taking on the world. With three Australian Prime Ministers, The Governor of Western Australia and the international corporate elite among those to have been moved by her pure soprano voice, Clara has opened for international greats such as Il Divo, headlining at the Marina Bay Sands Christmas Event in Singapore hosted by David Beckham and singing the Australian Nation Anthem at International sporting Grand Final events. Titled by the people as "The Voice of an Angel".
Clara first became passionate about performing after commencing extensive dance training at three years old and later receiving Honours for her Teachers Certificate in Classical Ballet. She is trained in Classical Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Ballroom, Character, Contemporary and Argentine Tango.
Australian & American passport holder. - Clara Cleymans was born on 5 January 1989 in Wilrijk, Belgium. She is an actress, known for Mijn slechtste beste vriendin (2021), De Ridder (2013) and We Need to Talk (2021).
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Clara Kimball Young was born Clarisa Kimball on September 6, 1890, to Edward Kimball and the former Mrs. E.M. Kimball, traveling stock company actors with the Holden Co. Though she claimed Chicago as her birthplace, there are no records of her being born in Cook County--which includes Chicago--and she may have been born on one of her parents' tours. Her parents lived in Benton Harbor, Michigan, where her birth name Clarisa changed from the 1890 census to Clairee in the one of 1900, though she once claimed her birth name was Edith.
Young Clarisa Kimball made her professional debut as an actress at the advanced age of three, touring with the Holden Co. with her parents and playing child parts in the company's repertoire. After attending Chicago's St. Francis Xavier Academy, she joined another traveling stock company that took her out west. She married actor James Young, and sometime between 1909 and 1912 they were both hired by the Vitagraph Co. Though she was making $75 a week in the stock company, she accepted Vitragraph's offer of an annual contract paying her $25 a week, as it was steady employment.
In addition to her husband, who was hired as an actor but eventually became one of the company's best directors, Vitagraph hired her parents. The studio, which had been formed at the end of the 19th century as the International Novelty Company by English vaudevillians Albert E. Smith, J. Stuart Blackton and Ronald A. Reader, was a family-friendly company. In addition to the Youngs, it also employed the sisters Norma Talmadge and Constance Talmadge, the Sidney Drew family, and Maurice Costello and his daughters Dolores Costello and Helene Costello.
Though Clara made dozens of films at Vitagraph, few of them survive. In her early films she was quite charming, and these showcased her natural personality better than did her later dramas. A tall, dark-haired, full-figured gal who was a popular type in the early 20th century, Clara played both conventional leading ladies and light comedy I(at which she excelled). She quickly became a top star at Vitagraph, ranking 17th in a 1913 popularity poll of stars that was topped by Kalem's Alice Joyce.
Clara would soon knock Joyce off her perch atop the popularity charts. When Vitagraph supplemented its normal output of one- and two-reelers in 1914 and '15 with several longer feature films, it paired Young and the equally popular 'Earle Williams' as her leading man. One of their first collaborations, My Official Wife (1914)--a potboiler in the then-popular Russian aristocracy genre, propelled Young and Williams to the top rank of stardom in the polls. The movie, helmed by her husband, made him a major director.
Into this "Garden of Eden" arrived a serpent in the guise of producer Lewis J. Selznick, the vice president of the new World Film Corp., who signed Young to a personal contract in 1914 and proceeded to change her image into that of an unbridled sexpot. In that year's Lola (1914) (aka "Without a Soul"), which was directed by her husband, she played a decent woman who dies and is resurrected, unfortunately lacking a soul (like many producers before and since). Transformed into a "vamp", the heartless Lola sets out to destroy men, resulting in Clara conquering the box office with another huge hit that cemented her reputation as a superstar. Simultaneously, Selznick was destroying the equanimity of his leading lady's home life, leading her husband to remark ruefully to Mabel Normand, "[W]here I made my mistake was in ever inviting that fellow to the house."
In 1916 James Young filed a lawsuit against Selznick for alienation of affections, to which Selznick riposted that the marriage was troubled before he had arrived on the scene. Clara filed charges against her husband, charging cruelty, though eventually it was James Young who obtained a divorce on grounds of desertion on April 8, 1919 (bBy then the Selznick-Kimball Young relationship was on the rocks and in the courts, and there was another correspondent to the divorce).
After playing two man-eating vamps, Clara settled into a series of roles as the traditional hapless heroine whose travails are resolved with a conventional happy ending. She did, however, get to assay the title roles in Camille (1915) and Trilby (1915) with more tragic results, and she got to play some more decadent Russian hussies in Hearts in Exile (1915) and The Yellow Passport (1916).
Screenwriter Frances Marion, her longtime friend, reported that Clara was bored with her roles at World Film and resentful about Selznick's control over her private life. Like many a movie mogul before and since, Selznick was determined to create a public image for his star that matched the roles she played, that of a gloomy tragedienne.
Selznick was an ambitious man who had a habit of alienating his business partners (a trait that would trigger the failure of his last company in 1923). He was ousted as general manager of World Film in February 1916. Three months later he left formed the Clara Kimball Young Film Corp. to produce films for her with himself as president, and Selznick Productions Inc., to distribute both her films and those of independent production companies. Now with exclusive control of her career, Selznick seemed determined to turn her back into the sexpot he made her when he produced her first movie at World. Leaving behind the five-reelers, he launched her in seven-reel extravaganzas, dressed in fashionable wardrobe and parrying risqué subject matter in The Common Law (1916), The Foolish Virgin (1916), The Price She Paid (1915) and The Easiest Way (1917).
She had a falling-out with Selznick after the initial series of four films for the company named for her--but controlled by him--apparently due to the salaciousness of the subject matter and his complete control over her life and career. At this time she became associated with Detroit-based movie exhibitor Harry Garson, with whom she entered into a personal relationship, as she had earlier with Selznick. In February 1917 a knife-wielding James Young attacked Garson as he exited New York City's Astor Theater with his wife.
It was Garson, anxious to make the leap from exhibition to production that former exhibitors like Louis B. Mayer had accomplished, who apparently encouraged her legal campaign to become emancipated from Selznick. She filed a lawsuit against him in June 1917, charging the president of Clara Kimball Young Film Corp. with fraud. She alleged that Selznick had set up dummy corporations to hide profits and had elected himself president of her production company while not allowing her any input into its management. Publicly denying the charge, Selznick obtained an injunction forbidding her to appear in movies produced by any other company. Selznick counter-charged that Young was under the influence of Garson and planned to make films with him as director for her new lover's Garson Productions.
The ball now in her court, Clara announced to the press her plans to take complete control of her career, artistically and financially, by forming her own company. Bristling over her former mentor's turning her into a public sexpot, she announced that she would no longer make pictures that flouted the mores of the censorship boards. In the legal round robin that their troubles degenerated into, Selznick then sued Garson to keep Garson Productions from doing business with Selznick Enterprises, which had a contract to release Clara Kimball Young films. For his part, Garson claimed that Clara's contract with Selznick was broken due to the failure of Selznick's companies to produce and deliver her movies.
The machinations of Selznick nemesis Adolph Zukor, who would later force him into bankruptcy and out of the business in 1923, came into play. Zukor helped finance the formation of the C.K.Y. Film Corp. in August 1917, while secretly acquiring a 50% stake in Selznick's company. Zukor temporarily left Selznick in charge of the renamed Select Pictures Corp., which would release films produced by Young with her own C.K.Y. Film. Corp.
Clara, her parents and her "business manager" Garson moved to California in early 1918, and in June of that year they announced plans to build a studio. To build a stock company for this new studio, Garson hired Blanche Sweet and director Marshall Neilan, and named himself a producer. The output of C.K.Y. Film Corp. continued Selznick's practice of outfitting Clara in fancy duds, but the length of the "features" was cut back to five reels. Intended for an adult audience, the films starring Clara featured female characters who could think for themselves and make their own decisions--ironically a case of wishful thinking for this woman who had had not one but two Svengalis in her life within a short period. She did branch out beyond her Selznick-construed vamp image, though, and appeared in a few comedies, including Cheating Cheaters (1919), which was hailed for its ingenious plot and wonderful supporting performances. Unfortunately, none of the movies produced by C.K.Y Film Corp. have survived.
Conflict with Selznick reared its ugly head again in 1919, when C.K.Y. posted a legal notice as an advertisement in the January 11th issue of "Moving Picture World". In it, Clara declared, "I have this day served notice upon the C.K.Y. Film Corporation of the termination of all contract relations between that company and myself, because of several flagrant violations of the terms of the agreement under which motion pictures has been produced for distribution through the Select Pictures Corporation." The ad also stated that "Cheating Cheaters" would be the last film for the C.K.Y. Film Corp. Declaring themselves independent producers, C.K.Y. and Garson began shooting The Better Wife (1919).
Another legal donnybrook between Trilby and her penultimate Svengali ensued. Selznick claimed that C.K.Y. was under contract to the C.K.Y. Film Corp. until August 21, 1921, and that Select Pictures owned C.K.Y. Film. "The Better Wife" wound up being released by Select Pictures in July 1919, the same month that Equity Pictures Corp. was created to distribute Clara Kimball Young films produced by Garson Productions. Launching their first independent feature, Eyes of Youth (1919), Young placed another advertisement declaring she had her own independent production company. Equity got off to a strong start, as "Eyes of Youth" proved to be a huge hit, her biggest box-office smash since "My Official Wife" made her the top female star in motion pictures back in 1914. Arguably the best film she ever made, "Eyes of Youth" sported fashionable gowns and a first-rate supporting cast, including featured player Rudolph Valentino in his pre-superstar days, and featured high-quality production values. The film was heavily advertised, which paid off at the box office. Her success was short-lived, however, as Selznick launched another legal battle against her and Equity Pictures. His threats to sue exhibitors who showed "Eyes of Youth" forced many canceled bookings, causing Equity Pictures to ultimately sustain a loss despite its healthy box-office intake.
After the qualified success of "Eyes of Youth," Harry Garson decided he wanted to direct. An uninspired director whose control over the medium seemed to deteriorate with experience, he helmed Young's next nine films. The movies, with weaker scripts, turned out badly and the productions were hampered by a lack of capital. The decline of the quality of their films became so blatant that critics scored Garson and Young for the bad direction of her last two films. Young was always mature-looking, even in her youth, and the films contained characters who were supposed to be possessed of a youthful quality now alien to the actress. She had grown old on-screen, violating one of cinema's strongest taboos that still is in effect for actresses.
The "Roaring Twenties" proved her demise. The quality of her films had deteriorated to the point that her 1921 film, Hush (1921) was released on a "states rights" basis rather than as a road show, a sure sign of the waning appeal of the woman who was once the #1 female star in America. Exhibitors would not pay top dollar for her films, and the income from them was sure to drop, as under the "tates Rights" model, exhibitors could show a movie as many times as they wanted within their territory for a contracted period and would only have to pay the initial exhibition fee to the production company, instead of the usual system in which the studio got a percentage of the entire box office.
The financial fortunes of Equity took a hit when the courts held for Selznick, ruling that he was owed $25,000 for each of her next ten films. In addition to fighting Selznick's legal barrage, she was subjected to lawsuits by the Harriman National Bank and Fine Arts Film Corp. The fan magazine "Moving Picture World"' in a case of paid-for editorial content, featured many stories attesting to Young's continued popularity, sometimes accompanied with personal appeals from her to her fans to continue showing their support. By the time Equity released her last two films for the company, What No Man Knows (1921) and The Worldly Madonna (1922), her films had degenerated into the cheap, rushed look of what were known as "Poverty Row" productions. Equity Pictures and Garson Productions ceased to be functioning entities in 1922.
Paramount Pictures head Adolph Zukor reportedly offered Young a Paramount contract if she would promise to keep Harry Garson out of her career, but she refused and signed with Commonwealth Pictures Corp., owned by Samuel Zierler, who allowed her to bring along her favorite director, Garson. Samuel Zierler Photoplay Corp. was to be the producer of her films, which would be distributed by Commonwealth in the state of New York and by Metro Pictures in all other territories.
Times, however, were changing. Boyish figures on women became the rage during the Twenties, and Young had a figure from the late Victorian era, which combined with the mature appearance made her look older than she actually was, and in fact she came across as matronly. It was the time of jazz babies and flaming youth, and a more naturalistic style of acting that damned more florid players as Young as "old-fashioned." Furthermore, by the 1920s the movie industry was becoming more vertically and horizontally integrated. The days of the entrepreneur were through; until 'Burt Lancaster (I)' became a successful independent star-producer after World War II, Charles Chaplin proved to be the last movie star to form and run his own successful production company. Creating new companies to produce and distribute one's films, as Young did, was a difficult process to undertake in the best of times, and the early 1920s saw a decline at the box office due to a postwar recession and an over-expansion of production that did in C.K.Y.'s nemesis, Lewis J. Selznick himself. It was a Sisyphean task Young had set for herself, hampered by a rolling stone named Harry Garson.
Garson was only to direct one film for Zierler, The Hands of Nara (1922), an out-and-out debacle. He was booted upstairs as producer, and experienced directors were assigned to her films, such as the far more capable King Vidor. Trying to turn around the trajectory of a falling star is difficult, and the uneven quality of her new films hurt her, as did changing tastes. Critics and exhibitors, already derisive of an aging star playing young, began carping about overacting. "Variety," the show business bible, published a sort of pre-mortem, commenting on how deeply Young's star had gone into eclipse in just two years due to bad movies. A Wife's Romance (1923) was the last of her films released by Metro, though she would make one more silent picture, the independently produced Lying Wives (1925). Young tried the novel career move of playing a villain, opposite Madge Kennedy's heroine, but the film fared badly with the critics, and the silent film career of Clara Kimball Young was over.
The rest of the Roaring Twenties were spent in vaudeville and cashing in on her former stardom with personal appearances. She eventually ditched Harry Garson and married Dr. Arthur Fauman in 1928. With the advent of sound, RKO Pictures brought her out of retirement for a featured comic role in Kept Husbands (1931), but her attempt to rejuvenate her career was hampered by a public perception that she was a "has-been". She segued over to Poverty Row for lead roles in and Mother and Son (1931)for low-rent Monogram Pictures and Women Go on Forever (1931) for Tiffany Productions, a producer primarily of cheap "hoss operas" and for introducing James Whale to Hollywood with Journey's End (1930). This was the apogee of her career trajectory in talkies, being reduced to bit parts in Poverty Row productions and appearances as an extra in productions at the "major" studios. Her claim to fame at this stage of her career was her appearance in the classic The Three Stooges short Ants in the Pantry (1936).
Her husband Arthur died in 1937, one of a series of personal misfortunes that Young suffered in the 1930s. Her comeback was derailed by bad publicity, as the press chronicled the sad state she had sunk into, the former top box-office star reduced to bit parts and extra work. They had built her up, and now they tore her down, as Hollywood did love its clichés, this one the great star now has-been reduced to the career gutter, a morality play for the masses who read movie magazines.
Young began appearing in westerns, appearing with William Boyd in his "Hopalong Cassidy" series, and productions with Gene Autry and Richard Dix. She even appeared on the radio, but her attempts to make a go of it ultimately failed. Years later she quipped that "during the Depression I had half a mind to take up a tin cup and beg for alms." She announced her retirement in 1941, declaring, "I've been working since I was two years old, I think I deserve the chance to quit and just enjoy life."
Her last film work was in 1941, in bottom-of-the-barrel PRC's Mr. Celebrity (1941) (a.k.a. "Turf Boy"), in which she appeared as herself with another silent-screen-star/has-been, Francis X. Bushman. During the early days of television broadcasting, the major studios' embargo on selling films to TV and a lack of programming meant that many TV stations began airing silent movies to fill air time. Young's surviving silents began to be showcased, giving her a new notoriety. Once again in the public eye, she was interviewed and went on the personal appearance circuit again, this time attending film conventions. In 1956 CBS hired her as the Hollywood correspondent for the original The Johnny Carson Show (1953) that ran for a single season in 1955-56.
At the dawn of the 1960s, Young battled poor health and had to retire to the Motion Picture Home. Frances Marion, the Oscar-winning screenwriter who had remained her friend, said that Young told her, "I was worn out from the long journey, but I have found my way home."
Clara Kimball Young died on October 15, 1960, and was interred at the Grand View Memorial Park in Glendale, California, after a funeral attended by several hundred friends.- Clara Francis is known for Disobedience (2017), Under the Skin (1997) and Doctors (2000). She has been married to Jason Watkins since January 2014. They have three children.
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