Henry clive biography
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Henry Clive and The American Weekly
Australian-born artist Henry Clive (Henry Clive O’Hara) started out as a vaudevillian magician, became a silent film performer, and gained fame as an artist.
Henry clive biography
His career as an illustrator began nearly by accident, when impresario Flo Ziegfeld discovered one of his sketches. Ziegfeld himself used Clive to illustrate risqué showgirl covers for his Ziegfeld Follies and Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic programs and passed his name and work around to art directors in New York and Los Angeles.
As his popularity increased during the 1920s, the caliber of titles which displayed his glamorous and captivating beauties also increased and by the 1930s Clive was famous as the cover artist for William Randolph Hearst’s The American Weekly (Clive’s first cover for this publication appears to be from 1919, but his best known date to the 30s and 40s).
This Sunday newspaper supplement had a circulation of over 50,000,000 in its heyday and scintillated readers wi