Clara Bow

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by David Stenn

Type

Biographies

Subject

Actress > Clara Bow

Keywords

Clara Bow, actress, silent cinema

Publishing date

2000

Publisher

Cooper Square Press

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 400 pages
6 x 9 inches (15.5 x 23 cm)

ISBN-10
ISBN-13

0-8154-1025-5
978-0-8154-1025-6

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Book Presentation:
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.

Press Reviews:
Stenn has found out as much to know about Clara Bow as it is given to mortals to know; he takes an intelligent approach, neither too solemn nor too flip, and the story he has to tell is almost always engrossing. ― The New York Times

Illuminating and unforgettable. ― Los Angeles Times

She was Marilym Monroe decades before Marilyn. How movingly David Stenn has written the story of this hilarious and heartbreaking star. -- Dominick Dunne