Full name: Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild

Author: David Stenn Year: 1988 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, Non Fiction, History, Memoirs Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780815410256 0815410255

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. Similar books: Vamp by Eve Golden Vivien by Alexander Walker Jean Arthur by John Oller Montgomery Clift by Patricia Bosworth Jimmy Stewart by Marc Eliot Clark Gable by Warren G. Harris Buster Keaton by Edward McPherson Louise Brooks by Barry Paris Charlie Chaplin by Peter Ackroyd Dark Lover by Emily W. Leider How to Be a Movie Star by William J. Mann Marion Davies by Fred Lawrence Guiles James Dean by David Dalton Wisecracker by William J. Mann Tough Without a Gun by Stefan Kanfer A River in Darkness by Masaji Ishikawa Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand Lady in Waiting by Anne Glenconner Upstairs at the White House by J. B. West Escape from Camp 14 by Blaine Harden