![]() The actress lived the role offscreen as well, having affairs with Gary Cooper, Gilbert Roland, Victor Fleming and others, creating scandals that prompted even her amoral father to ask her, "Why can't you be like Lillian Gish?" But as Stenn's admirably balanced profile shows, Bow was not as wild as accounts paint her. She personified sex as fun, earning the sobriquet "The It Girl," coined by Elinor Glyn to define her allure. Before long the pretty redhead's singular talents made her extremely popular with producers and public alike. She escaped by winning a "fame and fortune" contest in her teens and a part in a silent film. Mistreated by a psychotic mother and abusive father, Bow grew up in the Brooklyn slum where she was born in 1902. ![]() Assiduously researched, the book contains hitherto unpublished material from Clara Bow's son and others who knew the screen goddess who expressed the spirit of flaming youth during the 1920s. In his first book, Stenn, a screenwriter, has produced a movie biography that tops most of the current crop of Hollywood stories. ![]()
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