Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild

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Cooper Square Press, Mar 13, 2000 - Performing Arts - 400 pages
Hollywood's first sex symbol, the ' It ' girl, Clara Bow was born in the slums of Brooklyn in a family plagued with alcoholism and insanity. She catapulted to fame after winning Motion Picture magazine's 1921 " Fame and Fortune" contest. The greatest box-office draw of her day—she once received 45,000 fan letters in a single month, Clara Bow's on screen vitality and allure that beguiled thousands, however, would be her undoing off-camera. David Stenn captures her legendary rise to stardom and fall from grace, her success marred by studio exploitation and sexual scandals.
 

Contents

Prologue
1
Brooklyn Gothic
3
Hollywood Flapper
33
The It Girl
77
Talkies
153
This Aint No Life
207
MrsBeldam
247
Epilogue
281
Aftermath
284
Filmography
287
Sources
314
Notes
321
Index
359
About the Author
369
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