I doubt she would have ever imagined a movie being made from her life, at least not in this way; back then, there was a strict moral code that the film studios had to follow, and criminals could not be protagonists the way they are in this film.
Bonnie and Clyde died just before the Hays Code was enforced in July 1934 even though it had been adopted as early as 1930. However, studios for the most part ignored it or bypassed it. The time between 1929 (when talkies became commonplace) and 1934 is know as Pre-Code Hollywood. These movies featured sexual innuendo, miscegenation, profanity, illegal drug use, promiscuity, prostitution, infidelity, abortion, intense violence, homosexuality, and even nudity. How ironic that it was movies like
Manhattan Melodrama (which John Dillinger had just finished watching before he was gunned down),
Scarface, and
The Public Enemy (which glamorized criminals) that led to an outcry about movie censorship, and it would be
Bonnie and Clyde 33 years later that helped to end the Code and usher in a New Hollywood.
There are conflicting reports as to how much she really craved the spotlight, but she certainly was infatuated with celebrity culture, and I'm sure she didn't mind the media attention she got.
In an interview Bonnie's sister, Billie Jean Parker, recorded in 1968, she mentioned that Bonnie was obsessed with popular culture and had aspirations to be an actress on Broadway or Hollywood. One time Billie, a self-proclaimed fisherman, took Bonnie fishing with her and all she did was talk about acting until Billie told her to shut up, to which Bonnie responded: "When I'm on Broadway and have my name up in lights, you'll be sorry you ever talked to me like this!"
You can listen to her tell it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TDmbM6LZvMTo answer the OP's query, yes, I think she would've liked this movie version though she probably would've agreed with W.D. Jones that it was too glamorized and made it seem like a lark. In a 1968 interview Jones did for
Playboy he said: "That
Bonnie and Clyde movie made it all look sort of glamorous, but like I told them teenaged boys sitting near me at the drive-in showing: 'Take it from an old man who was there. It was hell.'"
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