Call Her Savage (1932)

Texans are proud of their rambunctious, uncontainable personalities, and nowhere have the Lone Star proclivities been portrayed bigger, brasher, or bolder than by wee East Coast refugee Clara Bow in Call Her Savage (1932). Wild woman Bow comes storming out of the gate as an untamable daughter of the Alamo state. She drinks to excess, she banters in rough and suggestive language, she picks fights over the merest of slights. Toward the end, the cantankerous gal hits the skids and must acknowledge that perhaps the two-fisted approach is not the solution to every obstacle in life. The mystery of what makes demure Clara’s character so dadgum mean is cleared up with the discovery that her father has fueled her veins with Native American bloodlines.