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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... release of Clara's first movie approached. Sarah's death threats against her daughter were constant. Clara was sick with fear. Beyond the Rainbow opened on February 19, 1922. That day Clara invited two girls from grammar school to ...
... release of Clara's first movie approached. Sarah's death threats against her daughter were constant. Clara was sick with fear. Beyond the Rainbow opened on February 19, 1922. That day Clara invited two girls from grammar school to ...
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... release, he committed Sarah to an asylum. Sixteen years earlier Sarah's father had incarcerated her mother in the same facility. Later Clara would claim she suIfered some sort of breakdown during this period, though her memory of it was ...
... release, he committed Sarah to an asylum. Sixteen years earlier Sarah's father had incarcerated her mother in the same facility. Later Clara would claim she suIfered some sort of breakdown during this period, though her memory of it was ...
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... release. So powerful was Sarah's hold on Clara that she overlooked her mother's attempts on her life and begged Robert Bow to bring her home. He refused. Desperate, Clara appealed to the cousin who owned the brownstone where her fainily ...
... release. So powerful was Sarah's hold on Clara that she overlooked her mother's attempts on her life and begged Robert Bow to bring her home. He refused. Desperate, Clara appealed to the cousin who owned the brownstone where her fainily ...
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... released. Elmer Clifton's whaling saga harpooned audiences fora remarkable twenty-two-week New York run, and though critics loathed the movie, they loved Clara's performance in it. Watching Down to the Sea in Ships today, it's easy to ...
... released. Elmer Clifton's whaling saga harpooned audiences fora remarkable twenty-two-week New York run, and though critics loathed the movie, they loved Clara's performance in it. Watching Down to the Sea in Ships today, it's easy to ...
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... release, Townsend Martin commissioned college chum F. Scott Fitzgerald to devise a story. Fitzgerald responded with Grit, a tough if uninspired tale of cowardice and revenge set on New York's Lower East Side, and was paid $2,000 for his ...
... release, Townsend Martin commissioned college chum F. Scott Fitzgerald to devise a story. Fitzgerald responded with Grit, a tough if uninspired tale of cowardice and revenge set on New York's Lower East Side, and was paid $2,000 for his ...
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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