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's dilapidated Vine Street studios, then traveled to Lake Arrowhead for location work. Though Fleming was involved with actress Alice White and Clara was concentrating on her role (assistant director Henry Hathaway remembers ...
... Paramount's dilapidated Vine Street studios, then traveled to Lake Arrowhead for location work. Though Fleming was involved with actress Alice White and Clara was concentrating on her role (assistant director Henry Hathaway remembers ...
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... Paramount executives trick Clara into signing an extension of . her Preferred contract without renegotiating its terms. This way' her Paramount salary would remain as it was at Preferred: $750 a week, a pitiful sum considering that the ...
... Paramount executives trick Clara into signing an extension of . her Preferred contract without renegotiating its terms. This way' her Paramount salary would remain as it was at Preferred: $750 a week, a pitiful sum considering that the ...
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... Paramount publicists couldn't have written a better exit line, and if they had, they wouldn't have dared use it. Five years earlier a stunt like Savage's could have ruined an actress's career, but by 1926 the incident merely tickled ...
... Paramount publicists couldn't have written a better exit line, and if they had, they wouldn't have dared use it. Five years earlier a stunt like Savage's could have ruined an actress's career, but by 1926 the incident merely tickled ...
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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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