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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... releases was a Preferred Picture. Not one was of merit, either. Wine, a Universal quickie, featured Clara as a bootlegger's daughter who reforms when her mother goes temporarily ... release, used Clara and character. HOLLYWOOD. FLAPPER. 43.
... releases was a Preferred Picture. Not one was of merit, either. Wine, a Universal quickie, featured Clara as a bootlegger's daughter who reforms when her mother goes temporarily ... release, used Clara and character. HOLLYWOOD. FLAPPER. 43.
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Runnin' Wild David Stenn. Helen's Babies, a Principal Pictures release, used Clara and character actor Edward Everett Horton as foils for its star, six-yearold Baby Peggy. During 'shooting her behavior bafiled the child star and vexed ...
Runnin' Wild David Stenn. Helen's Babies, a Principal Pictures release, used Clara and character actor Edward Everett Horton as foils for its star, six-yearold Baby Peggy. During 'shooting her behavior bafiled the child star and vexed ...
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... released anyway. It was a relentless and unrewarding routine, and a vivid portrayal of Clara during it comes from Schulberg's son. Budd Schulberg was a painfully shy, sensitive, stammering ten-year-old when he met Clara in his father's ...
... released anyway. It was a relentless and unrewarding routine, and a vivid portrayal of Clara during it comes from Schulberg's son. Budd Schulberg was a painfully shy, sensitive, stammering ten-year-old when he met Clara in his father's ...
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... releases. No exhibitor could play one movie and not another; if one was wanted, the rest had to be booked, too. The result ensured Paramount that its theaters would play only its movies. But in order to maintain exhibitor allegiance ...
... releases. No exhibitor could play one movie and not another; if one was wanted, the rest had to be booked, too. The result ensured Paramount that its theaters would play only its movies. But in order to maintain exhibitor allegiance ...
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Contents
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3 | |
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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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