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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... cousin would phone Clara and warn that her father was en route. By the time he arrived, the lovers were back on the stoop outside, above suspicion or reproach. Grit gave Clara her best role to date, and she if: 28 CLARA BOW.
... cousin would phone Clara and warn that her father was en route. By the time he arrived, the lovers were back on the stoop outside, above suspicion or reproach. Grit gave Clara her best role to date, and she if: 28 CLARA BOW.
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... Lover and he was casting Kiss Me Again. During her screen test she spied Lubitsch smacking his lips off-camera, mistook his nervous tic for a taunt, and smacked her own lips back at him. The director turned crimson and called Clara “a ...
... Lover and he was casting Kiss Me Again. During her screen test she spied Lubitsch smacking his lips off-camera, mistook his nervous tic for a taunt, and smacked her own lips back at him. The director turned crimson and called Clara “a ...
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... . One movie heralded the change. Shot in the summer of 1925, it brought Clara both a groundbreaking new image and an ardent lover to go with it. 7. Percy Marks was a Brown University professor and popular HOLLYWOOD FLAPPER 51 is.
... . One movie heralded the change. Shot in the summer of 1925, it brought Clara both a groundbreaking new image and an ardent lover to go with it. 7. Percy Marks was a Brown University professor and popular HOLLYWOOD FLAPPER 51 is.
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... lover, whose roots and religion provoked his bigotry (curiously, ArtieJacobson'sjewishness had not). Clara, ranted Robert, was forbidden to marry a Catholic, especially a “greasy Mexican” like Roland. Love made loan-outs bearable. After ...
... lover, whose roots and religion provoked his bigotry (curiously, ArtieJacobson'sjewishness had not). Clara, ranted Robert, was forbidden to marry a Catholic, especially a “greasy Mexican” like Roland. Love made loan-outs bearable. After ...
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... lover's lair, she storms past his butler, makes a beeline for the bar, snatches a silver cocktail shaker, leaps onto a divan, pours herself a stiff drink, guzzles it, traces the liquor's trail down her gullet delightedly, then hurls her ...
... lover's lair, she storms past his butler, makes a beeline for the bar, snatches a silver cocktail shaker, leaps onto a divan, pours herself a stiff drink, guzzles it, traces the liquor's trail down her gullet delightedly, then hurls her ...
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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