‘Bonnie & Clyde’: Real and onscreen
Bonnie Parker aims a shotgun at her partner, Clyde Barrow while clowning beside an automobile in 1932. (American Stock Archive / Getty Images)
A comparison of 1930s portraits of bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow with images from “Bonnie and Clyde” (1967) and the December 2013 TV miniseries “Bonnie & Clyde.”
Actors Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty as Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow in a still from the 1967 movie “Bonnie and Clyde,” directed by Arthur Penn. (Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images)
A 1933 portrait of American bank robbers and lovers Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, popularly known as Bonnie and Clyde. (Hulton Archive / Getty Images)
Actors Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty as Bonnie parker and Clyde Barrow in a still from the 1967 movie “Bonnie and Clyde,” directed by Arthur Penn. (Keystone-France / Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)
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A 1933 portrait of Bonnie Parker leaning on a car while smoking a cigar and holding a pistol. (Hulton Archive / Getty Images)
Actress Faye Dunaway as bank robber Bonnie Parker in a still from the 1967 movie “Bonnie and Clyde,” directed by Arthur Penn. (Hulton Archive / Getty Images)
A 1933 portrait of Clyde Barrow holding a machine gun while sitting on the front fender of a car. (Hulton Archive / Getty Images)
Four members of the six-man posse that ambushed and killed fugitive criminals Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker on May 23, 1934. They are pictured on the day after the ambush. Dallas County Sheriff’s deputies Bob Alcorn, left, and Ted Hinton, and former Texas Rangers B.M. “Manny” Gault and Capt. Frank Hamer. (Hulton Archive / Getty Images)