Stenn moves through each period of her life, from her days of poverty in Brooklyn to her breakthrough in acting and subsequent Hollywood career to her decades of reclusive retirement, contextualizing Clara’s decisions and life circumstances. Stenn’s biography of Clara captures her talent as an actress and her alluring star persona while examining Bow’s tumultuous private life that differed wildly from her glamourous screen image. Only working in pictures for a decade before an early retirement and retreat from public life in her late 20s, Clara won over the hearts of millions of movie fans around the world and cemented herself as one of the most recognizable sex symbols ever to grace the screen. During the peak of her popularity, Clara Bow was Hollywood’s biggest box office star and a worldwide 1920s cultural phenomenon.
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