I should also add, before somebody else goes there, that the old stories of Clara Bow having orgies with the USC football team are not true either. I used Stenn’s book extensively in researching mine, and he shows pretty conclusively that those allegations were made up by Daisy DeVoe, Bow’s former assistant who was locked in a scandalous court case after being accused of embezzling Bow’s funds.
It’s my understanding that Bow’s fascination with the football players extended to throwing parties with them and hanging out to the extent that her father tried to get her to knock it off.