# Clara Bow or Marlene Dietrich? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 16, 2018, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clara-bow-or-marlene-dietrich/814304 "2018-05-16T19:56:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2018, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clara-bow-or-marlene-dietrich/814304/41 "2018-05-18T01:09:33Z")
Hedy Lamarr ---
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2018, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clara-bow-or-marlene-dietrich/814304/42 "2018-05-18T01:23:09Z")
That’s Hedley (anyway, wrong decade). ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2018, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clara-bow-or-marlene-dietrich/814304/43 "2018-05-18T01:25:06Z")
Go to [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBa-jw8NH5I)scene from “Morocco” and go to 49 seconds and then tell me you prefer Bow to Dietrich. I thought I was 100% straight until I saw that. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2018, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clara-bow-or-marlene-dietrich/814304/44 "2018-05-18T02:16:22Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Barbara Bain? :dubious: > > (Okay; in this clip, it's a camisole, but hopefully you get my point.) B cup, max. Can’t sing? FTR, Moms age. Not really. ---
**Author:** ![Ashtura](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ashtura/32/2963_2.png) [@Ashtura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtura)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2018, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clara-bow-or-marlene-dietrich/814304/45 "2018-05-18T02:23:32Z")
> [@x-ray\_vision](#): > > That’s Hedley (anyway, wrong decade). No, it’s Hedy. Mandela effect? > **[Hedy Lamarr](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr)** > > Hedy Lamarr (/ˈhɛdi/; born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; November 9, 1914\[a\] – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born American actress and inventor. After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, including the controversial erotic romantic drama Ecstasy (1933), she fled from her first husband, Friedrich Mandl, and secretly moved to Paris. Traveling to London, she met Louis B. Mayer, who offered her a film contract in Hollywood. Lamarr became a film star with her performance in the romantic dr... ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2018, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clara-bow-or-marlene-dietrich/814304/46 "2018-05-18T05:02:23Z")
> [@Ashtura](#): > > No, it’s Hedy. Mandela effect? “It’s not Hedy, It’s Hedley, Hedley Lamarr.” > **[Hedley Lamarr](https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Hedley_Lamarr)** > >   It's not Hedy, It's Hedley, Hedley Lamarr.Hedley Lamarr How did he do such amazing stunts with such little feet?Hedley Lamarr’s final words, after getting shot by Bart. Hedley Lamarr is the main antagonist of Mel Brooks' Blazing... ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2018, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clara-bow-or-marlene-dietrich/814304/47 "2018-05-18T09:29:40Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > Marlene Dietrich seems kinda mean and sinister to me. I went her basically because I really like those qualities in a woman. ---
**Author:** ![txtumbleweed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@txtumbleweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/txtumbleweed)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2018, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clara-bow-or-marlene-dietrich/814304/48 "2018-05-18T14:18:25Z")
Clara over Marlene, but I think it was [Joan Blondell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Joan_Blondell_banned_1932_publicity_photo.jpg) who had just the right amount of sass. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clara-bow-or-marlene-dietrich/814304.md?page=2)