Clara Bow

Clara Bow has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and in 1994, she was honored with her image on a United States postage stamp designed by caricaturist Al Hirschfeld. Compilations are only listed if they have charted. After being diagnosed a schizophrenic in 1949 and suffering a mental-health regimen that included shock treatments, Clara Bow died on September 26, 1965 and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. The former manager of successful '70s Australian pop band Sherbet, Davies' company also manages Tina Turner, Sade, Pink, Joe Cocker and Tony Joe White. (born 1938). Cher is managed by expatriate Australian impresario Roger Davies. They married in 1932 and had two sons, Tony Beldon (born 1934, changed name to Rex Anthony Bell Jr.) and George Beldon Jr. Among her many achievements, Cher is the only recording artist in history to score #1 hits in four successive decades and she also holds the Billboard record for the longest time span --34 years-- between her first #1 hit in 1965 and her most recent #1 in 1999.

Beldon), later a lieutenant governor of Nevada. However, while this tour may be her last, it shows no signs of terminating in the near future; it has included over 200 shows and continues to add new venues. After movies such as Wings, Bow's career continued with limited success into the early sound film era, (despite her thick unmanageable Brooklynese accent) with notable success as a singer, until she retired in 1933 to raise her children with her husband, cowboy actor Rex Bell (actually George F. She therefore embarked on her last-ever world-wide tour (the Farewell Tour), her most spectacular and best-received tour ever. In 1927, Clara also made Wings, a war picture largely re-written to accommodate Bow, who at the time was Paramount's biggest star. The film went on to win the first Academy Award for Best Picture. In the same year, she was told that for health reasons she would no longer be able to perform live. Her contract also included a morality clause offering her a bonus of $500,000 for behaving like a lady and staying out of the papers. In 2004 she was nominated for a Grammy for "Best Dance Recording" for her song "Love One Another" but she lost to Australian Kylie Minogue.

Documentation indicates that as Bow developed a reputation as "Crisis-a-Day Clara," Paramount went out of its way to humiliate the increasingly emotionally frail actress by cancelling her films, docking her pay, charging her for unreturned costumes, and insisting that she pay for her publicity photographs. 1 in the charts for seven weeks and is the all-time biggest-selling single by a solo female artist. John, felt that Bow had enormous promise that was never tapped by the studios. In the United Kingdom, "Believe" stayed at No. At least one important film writer, Adela Rogers St. With the success of Believe, Cher became the oldest woman in the rock era to have a Number One hit. She was praised for her vitality and enthusiasm — Adolph Zukor said that "She danced even when her feet weren't moving" — though her roles rarely allowed her to show much range. In 1998 she had one of the biggest successes of her recording career with the number one hit Believe and the million selling album of the same name which won her a Grammy Award.

Her acting, however, was finer than her good-time-girl reputation implied. The album was written after a retreat to a poetry class in France; it was rejected by record labels and Cher chose to sell it on her Web site, with limited success. Budd Schulberg, a producer's son, said, "Clara Bow, no matter how great her popularity, was a low life and disgrace to the community." Very few of these rumors are true, but Bow probably inherited her mental instability from her mother. One exception was her alternative-rock album entitled Not.Commercial (pronounced "not-dot-com-mercial"). Some Hollywood insiders considered her socially undesirable, especially in light of rumored sexual escapades (Bela Lugosi, Gary Cooper, Gilbert Roland, and John Gilbert were among her lovers), alcoholism, and drug abuse. Her ability to reinvent herself has allowed her to continue performing and creating successful recordings for more than 35 years. Consequently, Bow was dubbed "The IT Girl" — "It" being a euphemism for sex-appeal, as defined by the British novelist Elinor Glyn. This image was enhanced by various off-screen love affairs publicized by the tabloid press. Cher is of Armenian descent.

In 1927, Clara made It, a vehicle for her sex-appeal. Following the devastating earthquake that hit Armenia in December of 1988, Cher travelled to the country to participate in the relief activities. She made an astonishing 58 motion pictures in 11 years. In 1989 she scored another million-selling #1 hit with the song If I Could Turn Back Time. She soon became known for her expressiveness, spontaneity, and ability to project sexuality and self-mocking humor. This finally allowed her to make the transition into a successful acting career, starring in films including Silkwood (nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress), Mask (for which she won the Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award in 1985), Suspect, Moonstruck (for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1988), Mermaids and Tea With Mussolini. 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. Once again the critics praised her work and she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award.

This being the Roaring 20s, all of her early movies were on the silent screen. The reviews she received were glowing and she was cast in the film version, directed by Robert Altman. Bow first was cast in Beyond the Rainbow, but her scenes were edited out prior to the film's release. For several years she worked at trying to secure a role to prove herself, until she was cast in a stage production of Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. Contrary to common belief, Down to the Sea in Ships was not Bow's first movie, although it is the first the public ever saw her in. Cher had demonstrated her considerable comedic talents in the various skits she performed on The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour, and while she was highly regarded in this arena, her ambition to develop a movie career was at first not taken seriously. She won the Fame and Fortune contest in 1921 and began making motion pictures the following year. Cher and Allman divorced in 1979 and she later had a relationship with guitarist Les Dudek.

She was working as an actress by her mid-teens, having dropped out of school at the age of seven. In 1978, Cher was romantically linked with Gene Simmons of KISS. The couple's eldest child, a daughter, died two days after birth, and the body was dumped in a trash can. She has two children, Chastity Bono and Elijah Blue Allman. Her father, Robert Bow, was rarely present and may have been mentally retarded; he reportedly raped Clara when she was a young girl. Cher and Bono divorced in 1974, and she later married rock musician Gregg Allman, a member of the Allman Brothers Band. Her mother, Sarah Gordon, who was mentally ill as well as an epileptic, was noted for her public and frequent affairs with local firemen. During the early Seventies, Cher began to establish herself as a solo recording artist with producer Snuff Garrett, and she scored three U.S. #1 hits with the songs Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves (1971), Half-Breed (1973), and Dark Lady (1974).

Bow was born in a tenement in Brooklyn, New York, the only surviving child of a family afflicted with mental illness and Dickensian poverty and physical and emotional abuse. She later hosted and performed in her own variety TV series, which ran for two seasons and concluded in 1977. To some, Bow was the era's archetype of the flapper. It was a surprise hit and ran for four seasons before the duo decided to end its run; Cher announced her intent to separate from Sonny. Clara Bow (July 29, 1905 - September 27, 1965) was an American actress and sex symbol, best known for her film work in the 1920s and early 1930s. After their career stalled (their bubble-gum pop was not popular in an era of edgier tunes), CBS head of programming Fred Silverman gave the duo their own show, The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour, in 1971. and The U.S.A.

Cher became famous as one of the pop music duo Sonny and Cher with her first husband, Sonny Bono. Together, they had a number one single called "I Got You Babe" (1965) in both the U.K. Cher (born Cherilyn Sarkisian LaPière on May 20, 1946) is a world-famous actress and singer. 2001 "The Music's No Good Without You" #8 UK. from "Living Proof"