Jake & Clara: Scandal, Politics, Hollywood, & Murder

JAKE & CLARA is based on a true story from the dawn of the Jazz Age about scandal, politics, Hollywood-and murder. 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-the 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 Clara's story on the big screen...…starring Clara as herself.