Bonnie and Clyde

Cultural

Two outlaws, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, who went on a two-year spree of murder and bank robbery in the 1930s in Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas before being killed in an ambush.

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Having shot to fame in Bonnie and Clyde at the end of the 1960s, he was rarely out of work - in films like The French Connection, Mississippi Burning and Superman.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2025

Dillinger was one of a handful of celebrity criminals in this era: Bonnie and Clyde, Machine Gun Kelly, Ma Barker’s gang.

From Slate • Dec. 18, 2024

The actor likens the relationship between Griselda and Rivi to Bonnie and Clyde.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2024

“Mama said one time it was like Bonnie and Clyde going through America on their own, not worrying about money, but having to worry about money at the same time,” said their daughter Lana Nelson.

From Salon • Dec. 27, 2023

The two people getting out of it didn’t resemble Bonnie and Clyde one bit: they were a middle-aged man with a potbelly and a young girl carrying a mangy cat.

From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm

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