"The story of Bonnie and Clyde, their names are remembered as one." The Foggy Mountain Boys didn't realize how right they were when crafting these iconic song lyrics for their hit song "the Story of Bonnie & Clyde" in 1968. And with the forthcoming release of all new 2-part miniseries telling the story of America's most infamous bank robbers, we have decided to provide some trivia before its release on December 8th. However, the story of "Bonnie & Clyde" is one of the most well-known thanks to Arthur Penn's 1967 film, but these facts are all the interesting things you didn't know about the immortalized outlaws.
Let's start it off basic did anybody realize that Bonnie and Clyde were mere kids when they captured the attention of American during the "public enemy era," Clyde was only 16 years old when he was first arrested in late 1926, after running from the police over a rental car that he didn't return. The two outlaws met each other a few years later in 1930, a few versions of their first meeting exist, although the most credible one claims that the pair had a mutual female friend in West Dallas, they met and where instantly smitten with each other.
One serious misconception about Bonnie Parker is her reputation as the machine gun-wielding, cigar smoking, police killing robber that the media portrayed her to be. Most believe that Bonnie was simply with Clyde because of love, she certainly remained loyal and carried out the crime spree with him, although, gang member W.D. Jones claimed he had never seen her fire at law officers. Bonnie also did not smoke cigars, rather she admittedly chain smoked Camel cigarettes. Her bad-girl reputation grew mostly due to the press, in April of 1933 police discovered the couple's Joplin hideout, despite their escape, and they left with little more than the clothes on their backs, leaving behind several rolls of undeveloped film and poetry written by Parker. A mere 2 days after the raid, the photos and poems found their way into newspapers all over the country, dubbing Bonnie "Clyde's cigar-smoking moll." These images cemented Bonnie and Clyde as America's first celebrity criminals of the modern era.
Despite Bonnie and Clyde's love being an integral part of their iconic story, Bonnie wasn't always his "moll" and she was actually someone else's wife. Parker was married to Roy Thornton on her 16th birthday in 1926, despite the marriage being short lived, they never divorced. According to "The True Story of Bonnie and Clyde" Parker was still wearing Thornton's wedding ring when she died in 1934.
After the ambush that killed the two ride or die criminals, the couple wished to be buried side by side. However, the Parker family would not allow it, Bonnie Parker's grave is inscribed with the quote, "As the flowers are all made sweeter by the sunshine and the dew, so this old world is made brighter by the lives of folks like you." Instead Clyde is buried with his older brother Buck Barrow who died of wounds he received in a gun battle with police only 4 months after joining his brother and Bonnie. Their joint grave reads, "Gone but never forgotten." How true it is.
If you want to know even more about the infamous Bonnie and Clyde and the full Barrow Gang, be sure the new "Bonnie & Clyde" TV miniseries. The series is set to premiere on December 8th on A&E, Lifetime and History, with Emile Hirsch and Holliday Grainger portraying the title characters.
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