Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl (1999)
Documentary, TV Movie • 1h 2m
Director: Hugh Munro Neely
Cast: Courtney Love, David Stenn, Budd Schulberg, Catherine Mulligan, Rex Bell Jr., Baby Peggy, Leonard Maltin, A.C. Lyles, Marion Shilling, Marge Marshall, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Jean Arthur, Rex Bell, Clara Bow, Louise Brooks, Gary Cooper, Richard Cromwell, Marceline Day, Victor Fleming, John Gilbert, Elinor Glyn, Jean Harlow, Donald Keith, Tom Kennedy, Bela Lugosi, Marilyn Monroe, Edna May Oliver, Esther Ralston, Gilbert Roland, Ernest Torrence
Best English-friendly & video release
Flicker Alley Children of Divorce Blu-ray extras
Available in Flicker Alley Children of Divorce Blu-ray extra, although since it was a TV movie, its source is still likely SD
Updated 10 months ago
About the film
Clara Bow: Discovering the 'It' Girl features scenes from 25 of her films, as well as interviews with family members and acquaintances.
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- It Clara Bow Discovering The It Girl
Director: Marcel L'Herbier
Same 4K restoration but no comparison available
Director: Frank Urson
Older Restoration: Flicker Alley Blu-ray
2026 Restoration: YouTube 4K Streaming
Older Restoration: Lobster Films DVD
2026 Restoration: YouTube 4K Streaming
Older Restoration: Lobster Films DVD > Flicker Alley Blu-ray (Flicker Alley Blu-ray/DVD has every 25th PAL frame deleted)
Director: Lewis Milestone
2K scan of a surviving 35mm safety fine grain provided by the Academy Film Archive
Director: Erich von Stroheim
Flicker Alley Blu-ray new 4K restoration
Director: Harry O. Hoyt
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Upcoming Flicker Alley Blu-ray Focus on Clara Bow according to their calendar
Director: Herbert Brenon
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Upcoming Flicker Alley Blu-ray Focus on Clara Bow according to their calendar
Director: James P. Hogan
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Flicker Alley Blu-ray Focus on Clara Bow according to their calendar
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Mono: 1999 WB DVD
5.1: Criterion 4K Blu-ray
Director: Werner Herzog
Director: Steve James
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has excellent master in SDR and a good encode. BD caps here.
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has poor audio: The 2.0 is fine but unremarkable, the 5.1 is presumably an upmix with a botched, strongly raised LFE channel which makes the entire track unlistenable on well-tuned equipment. Audio graphs here.
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
While it's included on both Criterion The Palm Beach Story extras and Arrow's Sullivan's Travels' extras, Criterion uses a different source and is vastly superior, see caps
Director: Ebrahim Golestan
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