Claire and Billy

Born:  September 8, 1916, Denver, Colorado.
Died:  December 12, 1973 Huntington Beach, California.

Here is a link to a new found photo of Claire and Billy from the Wisconsin Historical Society:
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullRecord.asp?id=97538&qstring=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wisconsinhistory.org%2Fwhi%2Fresults.asp%3Fpageno%3D842%26keyword1%3DLa%26search_type%3Dbasic%26sort_by%3Ddate

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Above:  AN AMERICAN GENTLEMAN  Little Billy Windsor, son of Claire Windsor, famous screen beauty, is all dressed up in his best suit of black satin, Eton cut, with a white crepe de chine blouse.  Keystone View Co. N. Y.

Above:  48.  Lovely Claire Windsor and her son Billy aged 5 [in fact 8 years old] snapped on the lot of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio during the making of "The Dixie Handicap," in which Miss Windsor played the leading role.

The following scrapbook was donated by the Windsor family to the Cawker City Museum.  It was compiled by Claire with newspaper clippings of her son, Billy and always sat on Claire's nightstand.  The shadow of the reading lamp which rested atop the book is clearly visible.

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Aug. 18th and 19th, 2017
  Cawker Picnic, Twine-A-Thon
               and Cook-Off

Page 28 is missing.
Claire was in fact 22 years old when she married David Willis Bowes in Denver on May 13, 1914.  And son Billy, was 6 years old, not 5, when this article was published.

Starved for attention, little Billy learned well from his mother's (staged) disappearance in the Hollywood Hills in July of 1921.  The Windsor family has confirmed that William Windsor, in later years, confessed that he had fabricated the story which led to the following article.  One must remember that the famous Limburg Kidnapping did not take place for another 10 years!