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Free To Love
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 (DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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CIara Bow, the "It" GirI, stars in this hard-hitting silent melodrama!
Marie Anthony, a girI of the streets, is sentenced to jail by Judge Winthrop Orr. Upon her release, she seeks revenge on the oId man, breaking into his house with a gun. The sympathetic judge instead chooses to heIp Marie buiId a new life. He makes the young woman his Iegal ward, but tragedy soon strikes when Orr is shot. The unsuspecting Marie is framed for the murder by the real killer. Now the downtrodden girl must convince the authorities that she is innocent, or face the electric chair...
Clara Gordon Bow (1905 - 1965) was born to a Iife of poverty in Brooklyn, New York. An avid moviegoer in her teens, she entered a movie magazine s "Fame and Fortune" contest in hopes of escaping her dreary upbringing. Winning through sheer determination, she was soon cast in her first hit, Down to the Sea in Ships (1922). SeveraI more successes foIIowed, before Bow starred in lt (1927), in which she played a shop girI turned flapper. Afterwards, she would be forever known as the "It" GirI. Her bobbed haircut, shapeIy figure, and free-spirited lifestyle made her the role modeI of choice for young women in the 1920s. Whether because of the arrivaI of sound or unsubstantiated rumors about her personaI life, CIara retired from acting in 1933 at the age of 28, but her timeIess appeal stiII makes her beloved today. |
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