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In 1930, Clara Bow's secretary Daisy DeVoe left the star in a fit of anger after an argument, taking piles of the actress's personal documents with her. DeVoe tried to blackmail Bow, but the star called the police and took DeVoe to court, which ended up backfiring horribly. The trial ensured that all of Bow's private dalliances became public knowledge, and the actress never had the cleanest record. Her dirty laundry was nowhere near as bad as the tabloids were making out at the time, but she did gamble, had taken multiple lovers without marrying them (still shocking in the 1920s), and was guilty of starting some sort of affair with an older married doctor, whose wife named Bow as a cause for "alienation of affection" in the couple's divorce. Ultimately, the rumors surrounding Bow were enough for Paramount to cancel her contract with them. The actress's star was already fading and it was hard work doing constant damage control on the many allegations surrounding her. As a result, she never appeared in another film after this one.

Featured in Hollywood (1980)