Clara Bow in Silent Classic Film 'IT' + New Silent Short 'THE PAPER' w/Live Score
The Art Theatre of Long Beach Long Beach, CA
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Clara Bow in Silent Classic Film 'IT' + New Silent Short 'THE PAPER' w/Live Score
"Wow.Clara was more than a controversial sexy actress, she was a phenomenon and a phenomenal actor."-Rotten Tomatoes
Shopgirl Betty Lou has designs on Cyrus Waltham, the handsome owner of the department store where she works. Waltham, though, doesn't even know Betty Lou is around. In hopes of attracting Waltham's attention, she accepts a date with his best friend, Monty, under the condition that they dine at the Ritz, where Waltham also has a dinner date that evening. Her plan works and in no time at all she and Waltham are contemplating marriage. The romance cools when a newspaper reporter mistakenly writes a story depicting Betty Lou as an unwed mother. Contrary to popular belief, Clara Bow was already Paramount's biggest box-office draw when she starred in this delightful rags-to-riches comedy. But It, from the fertile mind of bizarre best-selling author Elinor Glyn, remains perhaps the quintessential Bow picture. Not that the story of a poor shopgirl falling for her rich employer was anything new (by 1927, Bow could play that role in her sleep), but It came complete with one of the best publicity campaigns in Hollywood history. Glyn herself publicly pointed to Bow as the personification of It, "that quality possessed by some which draws all others with its magnetic force." Live score by Kyle Moore!
'THE PAPER' is a NEW short silent film shot here in Long Beach by our friend Heath Cofran-A Love Story to span the ages!
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The Art Theatre of Long Beach (View)
2025 E. 4th Street
Long Beach, CA 90814
United States
