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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... Brooklyn tenement into which the Bows moved was located at 160 Sands Street. Rivaling only Manhattan's Bowery and San Francisco's Barbary Coast as the roughest area in America, Sands Street was pockmarked with pawnshops, gambling dives ...
... Brooklyn tenement into which the Bows moved was located at 160 Sands Street. Rivaling only Manhattan's Bowery and San Francisco's Barbary Coast as the roughest area in America, Sands Street was pockmarked with pawnshops, gambling dives ...
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... the baby's imminent death that no birth certificate was ever obtained. Already Clara Bow was unloved and unwanted, and it would not be long before she knew it. 2 Clara was a robust child with auburn hair, high BROOKLYN GOTHIC 9 '1?
... the baby's imminent death that no birth certificate was ever obtained. Already Clara Bow was unloved and unwanted, and it would not be long before she knew it. 2 Clara was a robust child with auburn hair, high BROOKLYN GOTHIC 9 '1?
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... mouth. Her stammer was a source of constant amusement to other girls at PS. 1 11, who mimicked the way Clara talked and mocked the clothes she wore, which were made from Sarah's tattered shirtwaists. Scorned “ BROOKLYN GOTHIC 11 it.
... mouth. Her stammer was a source of constant amusement to other girls at PS. 1 11, who mimicked the way Clara talked and mocked the clothes she wore, which were made from Sarah's tattered shirtwaists. Scorned “ BROOKLYN GOTHIC 11 it.
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... Brooklyn tenements, but Clara's favorite weapon was her fists. “I could lick any boy my size,” she recalled with pride. “My right was famous.” When boys organized stickball games in the streets, she was chosen first. Her only real ...
... Brooklyn tenements, but Clara's favorite weapon was her fists. “I could lick any boy my size,” she recalled with pride. “My right was famous.” When boys organized stickball games in the streets, she was chosen first. Her only real ...
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... abandon their mates. When a woman gives herself up to a man, she loses her power. Man is the master and thus the enemy. Woman must control him any way she can. What Sarah did not realize and what her daughter could BROOKLYN oormc 13 *
... abandon their mates. When a woman gives herself up to a man, she loses her power. Man is the master and thus the enemy. Woman must control him any way she can. What Sarah did not realize and what her daughter could BROOKLYN oormc 13 *
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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