Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild: Runnin' Wild

by . David Stenn (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2000

  $22.28

  Hollywood'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.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1989

  $3.47

  The real-life story of a doomed woman whose eight-year reign as America's foremost screen actress and subsequent disintegration is at once harrowing and heroic. She was the legendary It Girl, the embodiment of the Roaring Twenties. She was the hottest box-office draw during Hollywood's Golden Silent Era. Gorgeous, sexy and wild, her numerous lovers (including Gary Cooper and Victor Fleming) shocked even the sexually promiscuous Hollywood movie colony. She was a talented actress who broke all the rules of Tinsel Town until she herself was finally broken at 25. At the peak of her career, Clara was the film industry's most overworked and underpaid superstar. Her fame didn't spare her years of reckless mismanagement and scandals involving gambling, sexual misconduct and embezzlement made headlines that were to devastate her. Verging on collapse Clara was devoured by the press, and spent the rest of her life in isolation and sickness.