Bonnie & Clyde - SECRETS FROM THE SET
Closer US|August 15, 2022
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Bonnie & Clyde - SECRETS FROM THE SET

MY BONNIE

While shooting the pic's picnic scene in Red Oak, Texas, local schoolteacher Mabel Cavitt was among the onlookers. But when the filmmakers took a look at her, they tapped her to play Bonnie's mother right there on the spot.

FOGGY NOTION

Used for the gang's getaways, the tune "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" was a bit miscast. It was released in 1949...15 years after the bank-robbing Bonnie and Clyde were gunned down.

RING OF TRUTH

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