Clara Bow

A One-Woman Play in Two Acts

By: Michael B. Druxman

Narrated by: Nancy McLemore

Clara Blow is a one-woman play in two acts about the life and times of Clara Bow. The "It" Girl was the movies' first American sex goddess. The star of Wings, the first film to win the Best Picture Oscar, Clara Bow's unhappy life, in many ways, paralleled that of her successor, Marilyn Monroe. A longtime victim of insomnia, Ms. Bow lies awake on the morning of her estranged husband's funeral and painfully remembers the mentally ill mother who once tried to kill her; her career as the ultimate "flapper" her many nervous breakdowns; and affairs with the likes of Gary Cooper, Gilbert Roland, director Victor Fleming, and, as is said, the USC football team.

Michael B. Druxman's Clara Bow is a tragi-comic tale about another of Hollywood's victims.

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an odd presentation.

the author tries to get into the mind of someone whose life was out of control. she never was allowed to be real. she never found herself because so many used her. it gives an opinion of what was going on inside her. it looks to me that she was a victim of her success. I want know mare because I feel this work poses more questions than it answers.