Dear Reader #210

Dear Reader,

Some book news. Operation Liberty, book twelve in my Eve’s War Heroines of SOE series, is #1 on Amazon’s Hot New Releases French Fiction chart.

Clara Bow’s forty-ninth movie was The Saturday Night Kid, produced between July 27 and August 19, 1929, and released on October 26, 1929. Clara played Mayme, one of two sisters in a love triangle. The cast included Jean Arthur, and Jean Harlow in her first credited speaking role.

Even though the producers had gifted Jean Arthur the better part, there was no resentment from Clara. Jean Arthur said, “I loved her. She was so generous, no snootiness or anything. She was wonderful to me.”

Clara also helped to promote Jean Harlow, arranging photoshoots for the two of them, even though at that stage Jean Harlow was a bit-part player. “She’s gonna go places,” Clara said of Harlow, identifying a talent that was going to take Hollywood by storm.

Clara Bow, Jean Harlow and Jean Arthur in The Saturday Night Kid.

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My latest Golden Age of Hollywood article for the Seaside News appears on page 40 of the magazine 

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As ever, thank you for your interest and support.

Hannah xxx

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