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Summary: A MUST READ!
Review: As a devoted fan of Miss Bow for many years, I was thrilled to see just how thoroughly researched and fairly reported this book was. This was a GREAT read! The writing intelligent, funny and completely absorbing. I didn't want it to end.
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Summary: Terrific read!
Review: Clara Bow is a fantastic book. I couldn't put it down
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Summary: A must have for the classic Hollywood fan
Review: Clara Bow is one of several women who define Hollywood and Star to me. Her moment of white-hot fame is long faded and Clara Bow would not be a name remember by the average moviegoer. If she is remembered, it is for wild rumors about her instatible love life with anyone and anything to cross her path.Thankfully David Stern has taken the time to carefully look at the true facts of Clara Bow, a film star so popular at one point that there would be a Clara Bow film for each season to meet the public's Bow fix. Clara Bow could be consider the Uber-Star Rises From the Depths of Poverty to Incite the World. She was born in poverty, raised in a fractured home with a mother who turned tricks to make ends meet. Like so many other film stars, the young Clara was sexually abused. Her exceptional looks brought her to Hollywood. Once in Hollywood, Clara defined sex for the nation, being crowned as having "IT" by no one less than Elinor Glyn (think a 1920s Jackie Collins or Judth Krantz). After a series of scandals, Clara went from IT girl to reclusion, spending her remaining years with her film-star turned politican spouse. For those willing to look beyond the scandal and rumors, "Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild" is a must read.
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Summary: This Bow Bio Sure Has "IT"!
Review: Clara Bow's incredible journey through life --- the child abuse, boundless energy, ambition, heartbreak and ostracism ---- is enough for any five soap operas. But it all happened to her, and David Stenn's flawless writing brings it all to life. Even hardcore film mavens who THINK they know Bow's story need to read this book. Bow was a highly complex, yet simple, person used by Hollywood's machine then cast aside when she seemed ill suited for talkies. Stenn iss particularly good at covering Bow's many valleys and how the tinsel town users almost zeroed-in on her. Unlike any bio I've ever read, RUNNING WILD truly blends outstanding research, often minute facts (there are many additions in this updated version), and a deep feeling for the Bow the public never saw. I HIGHLY recommend this book to teenagers! My 16 year old was fascinated with Bow's story, one which could have happened yesterday. Congratulations to David Stenn for a magnificent bio that no film buff --- or teenager --- should miss.
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Summary: One of the best movie bios I've read
Review: Clara Bow's life and career are remembered as a series of lurid rumors about her sex life and inability to suceed in sound pictures. Stenn presents a great story about Bow's rise from a disfunctional family in the slums of Brooklyn to being one of the biggest stars in silent films. Sadly her problems didn't end once she made it in Hollywood. This is a well written and researched biography of an almost forgotten Hollywood star, the precursor of Jean Harlow and Marilyn Monroe. It is a wonderful look into the world of silent movies and I recommend it highly.
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Summary: Captivating page-turner
Review: Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild is the best film bio I've come across in years. Stenn makes the "it" girl come alive and gives the reader great insight into this complicated and intriguing woman.
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Summary: Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild
Review: CLARA BOW:RUNNIN' WILD is the definitive biography on the "It Girl" of the movies. Mr. Stenn's masterful research has garnished a true portrait of both the woman herself as well as the actress which separates truth from the countless legends that have appered in print and the media concerning this most remembered of the silent film stars. The biographer is the first to interview Daisy Devoe(in order to gain insights not reported in the contemporary press), Miss Bow's contemporaries in the film world, friends and children, as well as investigating Clara's complete medical records. A masterful and well written book, that all will be captivated by.
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Summary: A non-fanciful look at the life of a hollywood sex symbol
Review: Clara was far more than most of the later works portray her to be. This book contains quote and insights from many of the people who worked with her, as well as an honest look at her troubled mental history. Clara is best known for role as sex symbol, and her dramatics are unfortunately overlooked, as so pointed out by this work. This book is a great read for true Clara fans because it focuses on what she achieved in spite of her problems, not becuase of them. I also liked the short spot at the end which reveals the sorry state of Hollywoods efforts to preserve its past from rotting away in aging film cannisters.
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Summary: The Real Clara Bow
Review: David Stenn did an excellent job of dealing with the life of Clara Bow. The research involved in finding out the details of her early life etc. was a major undertaking. Clara was in many ways a contradiction and he makes that clear. Her life began in hell and she rose above it. Most of the people she had to deal with were more interested in how they could use her to their benefit. She started as a young girl who had no idea of what was `normal', became a `famous' actress treated poorly by the studios and all who envied her and wanted to steal from her success, yet in the end she was a kind compassionate LADY who wanted a `normal' life. She cared deeply for people and was VERY concerned about what went on in this country and the rest of the world. To put it in perspective, I knew Clara in her later years and even stayed at her house for extended periods as my grandmother was her nurse/companion/confidant. David Stenn's book deals fairly and compassionately with her life.
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Summary: THE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT
Review: David Stenn did two wonderful things with this book. He put Clara Bow back on the cultural map, and he told the true story of her life. That he told it in lucid, economic and evocative prose makes it all the better. This is one of the finest Hollywood biographies ever written.
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