Margot Robbie shimmered in purple on the set of her upcoming movie Babylon set in the Hollywood of the 1920s.
The 31-year-old Australian actress playing the silent film queen Clara Bow whose 1927 movie It popularized the phrase ‘It Girl.’
Her latest costume included a glimmering dress with a plunging neckline and a hem cut just above the knee.
Transformation: Margot Robbie shimmered in purple on the set of her upcoming movie Babylon set in the Hollywood of the 1920s
The period touches included Clara’s curly voluminous hairdo, as well as a pair of gleaming silver heels, and the scene saw her on a dimly lit street at night.
Directed by Damien Chazelle of Whiplash and La La Land fame, Babylon also stars Brad Pitt as a character based on John Gilbert.
Li Jun Li will play actress Anna May Wong amid a cast that includes Jean Smart, Samara Weaving, Spike Jonze, Jeff Garlin, Tobey Maguire and Eric Roberts.
Brad and Margot previously acted together in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood where she played Manson Family victim Sharon Tate.
Who’s who: The 31-year-old Australian actress playing the silent film queen Clara Bow whose movie It popularized the phrase ‘It Girl’
Before Margot was attached to play Clara Bow it was reported that Emma Stone – who won an Oscar for La La Land – was in talks for the role.
Clara became one of the reigning female Hollywood stars of the 1920s, the original ‘It Girl’ who achieved sex symbol status playing the archetypal flapper.
She remarked to Photoplay that during her heyday she ‘was “running wild,” I guess, in the sense of trying to have a good time’ and theorized that ‘a lot of that excitement, that joy of life, got onto the screen.’
However she was scarred by childhood traumas – her mother had been committed and her father had raped her – and the pressures of fame became oppressive.
The look: Her latest costume included a glimmering purple dress with a plunging neckline and a hem cut just above the knee
In the early 1930s as she shifted into talkies, which she disdained as ‘stiff and limiting,’ she found herself enmeshed in a series of scandals.
One of the false claims she had to contend with was a persistent rumor that she had indulged in an orgy with the entire USC football team – a story immortalized in Kenneth Anger’s infamous 1965 gossip book Hollywood Babylon.
Her private life became subject to blistering scrutiny after she fired her secretary Daisy DeVoe and took her to court for embezzlement and blackmail.
Legend: Clara became one of the reigning female Hollywood stars of the 1920s, the original ‘It Girl’ who achieved sex symbol status playing the archetypal flapper
When the feud went to trial Daisy aired out a raft of dish about the star’s love life and accused her of gambling and drunkenness.
Although Daisy went to jail, the combination of Clara’s various problems drove her to a breakdown and landed her in a sanatorium.
She left the movies and married a Nevada politician, and although she briefly returned to Hollywood for the money she finally retired in 1933.
‘That joy of life’: She remarked to Photoplay that during her heyday she ‘was “running wild,” I guess, in the sense of trying to have a good time’
source: dailymail.co.uk
