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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... Clara described the symptoms only once, and then vaguely, as neither “fits ... Clara would watch in horror, powerless to prevent or control them. All she could ... letter—“H-hh-h-hello”—until her mind caught up with her mouth. Her stammer ...
... Clara described the symptoms only once, and then vaguely, as neither “fits ... Clara would watch in horror, powerless to prevent or control them. All she could ... letter—“H-hh-h-hello”—until her mind caught up with her mouth. Her stammer ...
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... Clara what a camera could, for on Friday, September 2, she and dozens of other contestants took a chartered bus to Eugene Brewster's Long Island home for screen tests. A week later a letter from Brewster Publications invited her to its ...
... Clara what a camera could, for on Friday, September 2, she and dozens of other contestants took a chartered bus to Eugene Brewster's Long Island home for screen tests. A week later a letter from Brewster Publications invited her to its ...
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... Clara went on crying.” Budd, Schulberg wasn't the only one watching in awe ... Clara hidden. So did the rest of the Preferred crew. “We all loved her,” confesses ... letter to Adeline Schulberg “alerting her to the B.P.-Bow situation,” a ...
... Clara went on crying.” Budd, Schulberg wasn't the only one watching in awe ... Clara hidden. So did the rest of the Preferred crew. “We all loved her,” confesses ... letter to Adeline Schulberg “alerting her to the B.P.-Bow situation,” a ...
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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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