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Article: THE 'IT GIRL' FILM LEGEND CLARA BOW'S LIFE EXPLORED IN NEW BOOK

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November 6, 1988
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PHOTO Clara Bow as she appeared in 1930.

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All she ever really wanted was love. And in the end, far from the blazing studio lights or the flashing theater marquees, she achieved her goal.

By then she'd paid a price for her freedom.

A recently released biography explores the paradoxes in the legendary silent film actress in "Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild," by David Stenn, (Doubleday, $18.95). "Clara Bow" is a gripping biography that sets the record straight on the woman who humbly described herself in her native Brooklynese as "jest a woikin' goil."

Bow was the "It Girl," the vivacious, talented film star whom writer F. Scott ...

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