Clara Bow: Runnin' WildHollywood'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. |
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... First Cooper Square Press edition 2000 This Cooper Square Press paperback edition of Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild is an unabridged republication of the edition first published in New York City in 1988, with the addition of a new filmography ...
... First Cooper Square Press edition 2000 This Cooper Square Press paperback edition of Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild is an unabridged republication of the edition first published in New York City in 1988, with the addition of a new filmography ...
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... first place.” She said it without self-pity, but with parents like Robert and Sarah Bow, pity is exactly what Clara deserved. Robert Bow was less than two years old when his mother died giving birth to her thirteenth child. He was ...
... first place.” She said it without self-pity, but with parents like Robert and Sarah Bow, pity is exactly what Clara deserved. Robert Bow was less than two years old when his mother died giving birth to her thirteenth child. He was ...
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... first birthday, her grandfather Frederick Gordon committed his wife to an asylum for the terminally insane, where she died a year later. Afterwards Sarah Bow hated her father more than ever, but since her own husband had taken to ...
... first birthday, her grandfather Frederick Gordon committed his wife to an asylum for the terminally insane, where she died a year later. Afterwards Sarah Bow hated her father more than ever, but since her own husband had taken to ...
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... first. Her only real friend, however, was a younger boy named Johnny who lived in the same tenement.]ohnny was her imaginary kid brother, the fantasy sibling Clara could play with and protect. Any boy who bullied him got a beating from ...
... first. Her only real friend, however, was a younger boy named Johnny who lived in the same tenement.]ohnny was her imaginary kid brother, the fantasy sibling Clara could play with and protect. Any boy who bullied him got a beating from ...
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... first prize was a part in a motion picture. It was the only chance a nobody like Clara would get, and she was desperate to seize it. But she could not enter the contest without two photographs of herself, and she did not have the money ...
... first prize was a part in a motion picture. It was the only chance a nobody like Clara would get, and she was desperate to seize it. But she could not enter the contest without two photographs of herself, and she did not have the money ...
Contents
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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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