Jake & Clara: Scandal Politics Hollywood and Murder

JAKE & CLARA is based on a true story about scandal politics Hollywood--and murder--from the dawn of the Jazz Age. When Warren Harding won the White House in 1920 his campaign received millions from Jake Hamon--The Oil King of Oklahoma. Harding planned to make Jake the most powerful businessman in America. But Mrs. Harding (some called her The Duchess) had one condition--Hamon a married man had to end his affair with his long-time mistress a girl named Clara.Jake and Clara had been together for ten years since she was seventeen and he was thirty-seven. But Jake coveted the powerful Washington job and he dumped Clara a couple of weeks after Harding was elected.A few days later Clara shot Jake.By the time Jake died Clara was in the wind. A headline-grabbing national search was conducted for the beautiful fugitive. Clara sightings were reported far and wide. A pair of colorful lawmen found Clara in an unlikely hiding place and brought her back to Ardmore Oklahoma to face the charge of first-degree murder. What followed was one of the most sensational murder trials of the era. A dream team of powerful lawyers surrounded Clara in the courtroom. Soon Hollywood came calling wanting to put Claras story on the big screen...starring Clara as herself.