num_pages: 400
description: 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.
language: English
title: Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild
titlecomplete: Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild
characters: Clara Bow
genres: Historical, History, Film, Media Tie In, Biography Memoir, Biography, Pop Culture, Memoir, Nonfiction, Womens
ratings_count: 1647
publisher: Cooper Square Press