Fanny Ardant

Ardant has appeared in more than fifty motion pictures. 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. It opened the 14th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival on January 9, 2003. 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. Fluent in English, Ardant has starred in several Hollywood and British films. Her latest film in English, produced by Franco Zeffirelli, is Callas Forever, in which she portrays opera diva Maria Callas. (born 1938). She proved her versatility, playing a comedic role in Pédale douce for which she won the 1997 Cesar Award for Best Actress. They married in 1932 and had two sons, Tony Beldon (born 1934, changed name to Rex Anthony Bell Jr.) and George Beldon Jr.

Initially, her youthful beauty brought popularity but over time her sophistication and acting skills have made her one of France's most admired actresses. Beldon), later a lieutenant governor of Nevada. The film, directed by François Truffaut, brought Ardant her first Cesar Award nomination for best actress in 1982 and in 1984 she was nominated again for Vivement dimanche! Eventually she became Truffaut's companion, giving birth to their daughter, Joséphine, on September 28, 1983. 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. By the early 1980s she was a major motion picture star, gaining international recognition for her role opposite Gérard Depardieu in La Femme d'à côté (The Woman Next Door). 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 her early twenties her interest turned to acting and in 1974 she made her first appearance on stage. 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.

She grew up in Monaco until age 17 when she moved to Aix-en-Provence to attend university. 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. Fanny Marguerite Judith Ardant (born March 22, 1949 in Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France) is a French actress. John, felt that Bow had enormous promise that was never tapped by the studios. The Woman Next Door (La Femme d'à côté) - (1981). At least one important film writer, Adela Rogers St. Confidentially Yours - (1983). 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.

Swann in Love - (1984). Her acting, however, was finer than her good-time-girl reputation implied. Next Summer - (1986). 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. Conseil De Famille - (1986). 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. La Famiglia (The Family) - (1987). 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.

Afraid of the Dark - (1991). In 1927, Clara made It, a vehicle for her sex-appeal. Colonel Chabert - (1994). She made an astonishing 58 motion pictures in 11 years. Beyond the Clouds - (1995). She soon became known for her expressiveness, spontaneity, and ability to project sexuality and self-mocking humor. Pédale douce - (1996). 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.

Ridicule - (1996). This being the Roaring 20s, all of her early movies were on the silent screen. Elizabeth - (1998). Bow first was cast in Beyond the Rainbow, but her scenes were edited out prior to the film's release. Balzac: A Life of Passion (1999). 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. Le Libertin - (2001). She won the Fame and Fortune contest in 1921 and began making motion pictures the following year.

No News from God (Sin noticias de Dios) - (2002). She was working as an actress by her mid-teens, having dropped out of school at the age of seven. 8 Women - (2002). The couple's eldest child, a daughter, died two days after birth, and the body was dumped in a trash can. Callas Forever - (2002). Her father, Robert Bow, was rarely present and may have been mentally retarded; he reportedly raped Clara when she was a young girl. Nathalie... - (2003). Her mother, Sarah Gordon, who was mentally ill as well as an epileptic, was noted for her public and frequent affairs with local firemen.

L'Odeur du sang - (2004). 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. El Año del diluvio - (2004). To some, Bow was the era's archetype of the flapper. 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.