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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... Paramount production head, only to be fired during an internecine power struggle. Shunned by the studios, he retaliated by launching his own. He was not yet thirty. Preferred Pictures “featured a small roster of minor stars and ...
... Paramount production head, only to be fired during an internecine power struggle. Shunned by the studios, he retaliated by launching his own. He was not yet thirty. Preferred Pictures “featured a small roster of minor stars and ...
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... Paramount's Adolph Zukor paid close attention to the triumph. Since Schulberg's enforced exit from his studio seven years earlier, Zukor had turned Paramount into the major of majors, with an annual $5 million-plus profit that doubled ...
... Paramount's Adolph Zukor paid close attention to the triumph. Since Schulberg's enforced exit from his studio seven years earlier, Zukor had turned Paramount into the major of majors, with an annual $5 million-plus profit that doubled ...
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... Paramount as associate producer and bring his entire company with him. In return Paramount would swallow Preferred whole, permit Schulberg to make any movie he wanted, and distribute it in the studio's six hundred theaters. Schulberg's ...
... Paramount as associate producer and bring his entire company with him. In return Paramount would swallow Preferred whole, permit Schulberg to make any movie he wanted, and distribute it in the studio's six hundred theaters. Schulberg's ...
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... Paramount debut was so successful that the studio awarded her a cameo appearance—as Clara Bow, movie star—in Fascinating Ybuth, then rushed her back to Hollywood for The Runaway. Afterward Paramount spent nearly six weeks preparing ...
... Paramount debut was so successful that the studio awarded her a cameo appearance—as Clara Bow, movie star—in Fascinating Ybuth, then rushed her back to Hollywood for The Runaway. Afterward Paramount spent nearly six weeks preparing ...
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... Paramount. A 1924 affair with Norma Shearer publicized his sexual prowess, but by the time he made Mantrap and met Clara, Fleming was more concerned with his career than his cocksmanship, and though his sensitivity rarely surfaced in ...
... Paramount. A 1924 affair with Norma Shearer publicized his sexual prowess, but by the time he made Mantrap and met Clara, Fleming was more concerned with his career than his cocksmanship, and though his sensitivity rarely surfaced in ...
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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