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• Four stars which 1927 Ohian movie goers were all familiar with, were Clara Bow, Rudolph Valentino, Lillian Gish, and Charlie Chaplin.
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• Clara Bow first entered the movie world when she won a beauty contest and the prize was a bit piece in a movie. ... Clara Bow's next movies, including one called Mantrap, increased her popularity.
• By the end of 1926, Clara Bow had millions of worshipers. ... Clara Bow's vitality, sexiness, and cunning made her a powerful force in the acting world of the Roaring Twenties.
• This picture was the year's best grossing movie, and assured Bow of fame and fortune. ... Clara Bow appeared in another dozen movies in the next couple years, including the classic, Academy Award winning "Wings. ...
• But Clara Bow's personal life was a mess. ... Clara Bow's career took a serious dive, following Wings, and her popularity declined. ... Clara Bow died in 1965, living her last years in solitude and seclusion.

• Clara Bow captured the freewheeling spirit of The Roaring Twenties in a wink of her eye. ... Her cupid's bow lips, hourglass figure and vivacious energy helped to make her the quintessential modern woman onscreen. While Mary Pickford personified innocence and Lillian Gish purity, Clara Bow was unconventional and outspoken. ...
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• The daughter of a Coney Island waiter, Bow was born in Brooklyn and escaped the poverty of her parents' lives when she entered a movie-fan magazine beauty contest. ... In The Plastic Age (1925), Bow was finally noticed for playing a cute college co-ed who's the heartthrob of the freshman football team. ...
• 1927 was a breakthrough year for 22-year-old Clara. ... Bow also appeared in her career-defining role that year: It (1927).
• Clara exploded off the screen in It like a supernova of erotic energy. ... Young women emulated her beaded style while men sought out girls with the illusive qualities that made Clara so tempting. ... Clara was a one-woman revolution. ... What made the film such a hit was Clara's unpretentious charm and good-natured teases. Clara is the object of each man's affection and in one title card, a beau points her out, saying, "She's a ripening sort She's positively top heavy with 'IT. ...
• After appearing in over 35 films, It became Clara's calling card. Overnight Clara Bow had become the "IT Girl" that all men desired.

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• Silent screen goddess Clara Bow, the greatest box office draw of her day, was the embodiment of the Roaring Twenties, Hollywood's first sex symbol and a natural talent with an independent heart. David Stenn captures Clara's legendary rise to stardom and her fall from grace, ruined by studio exploitation, mismanagement and scandals involving gambling, sexual misconduct and embezzlement. The greatest box office draw of her day, Clara Bow, was the embodiment of the 1920s. ...

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• When March described a redheaded flapper in his notorious 1928 verse novel, he must have modeled her on Clara Bow, who had been dubbed the "It" girl two years earlier. ...
• PDT), reveals that Bow was a generous and plucky gal, on-screen and off. ...
• On ambition and instinct alone, she pulled herself out of Brooklyn tenements, escaping from a sexually abusive father and a murderously unbalanced mother who tried to slit Clara's throat when she was sleeping -- catalyzing, among other things, a lifelong case of insomnia. Clara's father put her mother in an insane asylum, where she died while her daughter was appearing in a picture. ...
• Becoming a performer in a disreputable fledgling art form, Clara managed to use her disadvantages and her psychic wounds. ...
• Bow's swift, intuitive mastery of a new erotic syntax made her a revolutionary star. ... As the documentary's abundant film clips illustrate, Bow's performances have depth of feeling as well as dynamite charm. ...
• Flynn), TCM will be showing "It"; her first talkie, "The Wild Party" -- a college film from 1929, unrelated to the March poem; and the 1922 whaling film "Down to the Sea in Ships," which gave Bow her first major role. ...
• Bow's story contains two grand retreats: one from moviemaking, when a combination of microphone fright and scandal fatigue made her give up on Hollywood in the early talkie days, and the other from public and even family life, when Bell became a Republican politician. After a year at Hartford's Institute for Living (she was diagnosed as schizophrenic in 1949), Bow separated from her husband and began a reclusive life back in Los Angeles, where she died in 1965. ...
• David Stenn, the Yale-educated author of the groundbreaking biography "Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild" and a writer for TV shows ranging from "Hill Street Blues" to "Beverly Hills, 90210," sees her as bloodied but unbowed. A creative consultant on "Discovering the 'It' Girl," he spoke with me last week about the intertwining of Clara Bow's agonies and ecstasies.
• Clara Bow wasn't only or exclusively about sex, but she enjoyed it, and she wasn't ashamed of it. ...
• Weren't there sex stars before Bow, and erotic dramas by De Mille and Von Stroheim?.
• What you had were "vamps" -- and Bow was not a vamp. ... Bow is the woman as sexual being; there was an innocence to her that saved her from being immediately condemned. ...

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• Clara Gordon Bow, destined to become THE flapper of the 1920's, was born and raised in poverty in Brooklyn, New York, on July 29, 1905. ... Her mother tried to slit Clara's throat when she attempted to enter the film industry. ...
• Clara was flaming youth in rebellion. ...
• Clara was also involved in several court battles ranging from unpaid taxes to being in divorce court for "stealing" women's husbands. ...
• Clara was confined to a sanitarium from time to time and was not allowed access to her loving sons she adored very much. ...
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• "Clara Bow: Discovering The "It" Girl" is an insightful look at the life and times of one of the cinema's greatest treasures.
• Narrated beautifully by Courtney Love, with insights from Clara's friends,and family, we get a good look at what made her the superstar of the silents and early talkies that she was and still is to this day.
• It ran close to an hour, but if you are a big fan of Bow's you will want more! More clips and maybe more facts from some film historians would have been nice. ...
• It's definatly worth the view for any Bow fan or film buff. ...
• Clara Bow was a vivacious, beautifu example of flaming youth in the twenties--the "It Girl" was a sensation, a truly great sex symbol who still has a contemporary quality even when viewing her films from long ago. Yet, as this documentary so poignantly illustrates, Bow's life, in spite of her great popularity, was no bed of roses. ... As narrated with real feeling and restraint by Courtney Love, we learn how Bow rose above these stumbling blocks to become one of Hollywood's biggest stars in the Twenties, only to have her private life once again sabotage her efforts at finding happiness. ...

• Clara Bow was born in 1905 on a rotten side street in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, New York. ...
• Bow had a nervous disease and Clara remembered that she sometimes went into a "trance. ...
•   Elinor Glyn dreamed up two magic words to Clara Bow's measurements:   "It Girl. ...   The only ones in Hollywood who do are Rex, the wild stallion; actor Tony Moreno, the Ambassador Hotel doorman and Clara Bow. ...   The "It Girl" was the next step--or the next step-in--from the Flapper to Flaming Youth:   Anybody who didn't get the idea needed to do no more than catch Clara Bow in the movie of the same name as she soared to Hollywood's dizziest heights. ...
• For herself, Miss Bow came to look back on the time with a sense of regret. ... "   In Clara Bow's case, the fun took all manner of turns. ...   Clara Bow felt lonely and unwanted even when there were crowds around.
• Clara Bow compounded her troubles with some touches of scandal. ...   "If she had been Minnie Zilch instead of Clara Bow," Bell said in 1956, "perhaps this never would have happened to her. ...
• In the sanitarium Clara Bow has trouble sleeping. ... Bow died before the name flashed across the nation's conscience in the Twenties. ...

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• Biography: Later to become the personification of the flaming Roaring Twenties, Clara Bow was born and brought up in near poverty in Brooklyn, New York. ...
• 1938) Born at 4:45pm-EST Unlike many movie stars of her era, Miss Bow did not flaunt her wealth, but lived on par with the middle class. Miss Bow lived in a seven room bungalow at 512 North Bedford Drive in Beverly Hills. ... Clara Bowtinelli was discovered while working at a Coney Island Hot Dog stand run by Nathan Handwerker, who would later find fame in his own right as founder of Nathan's Franks. ...
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• Based on the short story by Elinor Glyn this is the film that gave Clara Bow the title the 'It' girl as she steals the show with a performance full of movement and energy expressing sexual interest by gentle touches, flicks and pats at her man. ...
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•     To posterity, film buffs, and historians alike Clara Bow will forever be the "It" girl "the royal mounted policeman of sex who always gets her man" at the end of every film. ...   The ever plucky and ever resourceful Clara would predictably set her sights on the prize (a handsome male).   Armed with her natural vivaciousness, cunning, sensuousness, and irresistible charm, Clara's character would rise above her lowly station in life and obtain her goal. "Clara Bow lit up the screen as much as-if not more than-any other star in history. ... They have a way of distorting the facts and thereby eliminating any knowledge of what made Clara the truly talented phenomenon that she actually was.
• "(Clara Bow has) won a very prominent place in the pantheon of silent movie stars, and her surviving films leave no doubt as to the exceptional force of her talent. She may have been the rawest and most unlettered of the silent era's stars but the Clara Bow you can see in both pot-boilers and Oscar-winners ,clearly belongs in the elite company of the Gish sisters, Gloria Swanson, Louise Brooks, Garbo-female performers who made indelible and incandescent impressions on the collective unconscious of movie culture in the silent era. ...
•       Clara Bow invented the notion of sex on the silver screen. ... Idolized by Louise Brooks in the 20s, Marilyn Monroe in the 50s, and Madonna in the 80s, Clara was an icon of sexual freedom for women everywhere. But beneath Clara's radiant, carefree laughter hid a pain that she couldn't ignore forever.
•      Born in a Brooklyn tenement in 1905 during one of the worst heat waves New York has ever experienced, Clara was unwanted from day one. Both her mother and grandmother were mentally ill and her father was disinterested in both marriage and children (he had left Clara's mother shortly before she went into labor). Clara's mother hoped that the heat would kill both her and her child and didn't bother with a birth certificate.
•      "Clara developed into a lonely, hypersensitive child, acutely self-conscious of a slight speech impediment" (Stenn).   School chum Catherine Mulligan remembers that a young Clara was not allowed to invite anyone to her home. ... The terrified Clara would often have to hide in a cupboard during these frequent ‘visits’. ...

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• studio September 25, 1965 By the time of her death on this day in 1965, actress Clara Bow was still a Hollywood legend for her uninhibited, flapper roles of the 1920's in films including "Wings," "Kiss Me Again," and "It. ...

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• Her hairstyle, her clothes, her flamboyant sex life, and her cupid-bow mouth all represented what it was to be in Hollywood in the Jazz Age. ... Her later years were plagued by mental illness and the scandal wrought upon her by her personal secretary, who leaked out lascivious details of Bow's flapper lifestyle when Bow sued her for embezzlement.

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• Clara Bow, the flame-haired actress known in Hollywood in the Roaring ‘20s as the “It” girl, was known for her Brooklyn accent, a brash, unrefined manner and a mentally-ill mother who, she claimed, once tried to stab her with a butcher knife to prevent her from becoming “a Hollywood whore. ...
• Bow was only 16 when she won her first film role (the prize for winning a movie magazine beauty contest). ...
• No doubt about it, Bow’s sensual, Cupid-bow lips and a shrink-wrapped approach to her attire helped her gain a foothold in the film industry. ...
• Clara appeared in more than a dozen films during her first year in Hollywood, and was considered a budding young starlet. With her cropped coiffure, short skirts and a devil-may-care attitude toward most of the standard vices, Clara was invaribly cast as a “flapper. ... A couple of years later, Bow, an eighth-grade dropout from the slums, became the highest paid actress in the film industry.
• Clara was just as busy off-screen as she was on-screen. ...
• Bow earned the nickname of “the Mountie of Sex,” because, no matter what, she always “got her man. ...
• The Hays Office (Hollywood’s moral watchdog) complained frequently that Clara was doing more than just “symbolizing sex. ...
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• Clara Bow, although an extremely talented actress in her day, is today remembered primarily as the "IT" Girl, which is the result of this film and a concomitant publicity stunt. ...
• Betty Lou (Bow) is a shopgirl in Waltham's Department Store, supposedly the largest in the world. ...
• We don't even see Bow until after there has been a discussion of "IT". Elinor Glyn was a fading romance novelist who wrote a story about "IT", and she was paid a princely sum of money and given an appearance in the film in order to declare Clara the "IT" Girl. ... Glyn really wasn't necessary to declare Bow the "IT" Girl; anyone seeing her on the screen could have told you that she had "IT" in abundance. Her portrayal of Betty Lou combines equal parts spunk, sauciness and sentimentality, making for a highly appealing character despite the fact that Bow wasn't particularly pretty or sexy herself. ... Bow was absolutely perfect for silent films; her moon-face was so plastic and controlled that she could easily convey half a dozen different emotions in the space of a second just by the way she held her head. ...
• On several occasions, Bow is seen running up the steps to her flat, but each time the camera gives a subtly different air to the scene depending on the circumstances. ...
• Extras Review: The sole extra is a documentary produced in 1999 by Hugh Hefner and Turner Classic Movies, Clara Bow: Discovering the IT Girl. This sympathetic documentary, narrated by Courtney Love, covers Bow's early life, career as one of the biggest silent stars, her terrified reaction to sound and resulting seclusion. Scattered throughout are a great many film clips from about 20 of Bow's films, including a number of her sound films. These make it clear that Bow was excellent in not just this one film, but in dozens before and after. At the end, I wanted to see much more Clara Bow on DVD. ...
• A quite entertaining romantic comedy that hasn't aged too badly at all, paired with a superb documentary on Clara Bow's life and travails. ...

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• The best-known movie of Clara Bow, the silent screen's most popular, appealing, and underrated actress, IT is a typical 1920s poor girl/rich boss romantic scenario. ...
• Betty Lou (Clara Bow), a salesgirl in Waltham's, the city's largest department store, is in love with her boss, Cyrus Waltham (Antonio Moreno). ...
• Clara Bow was the first great prototype of the working-class flapper, the good-time girl (with a heart) who was not only sexy but sexed up--always within acceptable limits, of course (that goodnight slap, the rejection of mistress-hood in lieu of marriage). ... Although Mary Pickford considered Bow "a very great actress," not everyone agreed. ... As a screen actress, Bow was a natural, a romantic comedienne second only to Colleen Moore, and when the darker emotions were required of her, she was more than up to the challenge.
• Bow's technique was intuitive, unschooled; spontaneity was the secret of her success. ...
• As showcases for her enormous talent, Bow's vehicles were generally quite serviceable, but IT fit her like a glove. Fast, fun, and brightly lit throughout, IT astutely places its star in the perfect Bow job--lingerie salesgirl. ...
• A huge success with the moviegoing public, IT vaulted Bow into superstardom, where she remained all too briefly. ...
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• Clara Bow shines in this movie (rate: 4).
• I had read about Clara Bow, and was interested to see how she performed on screen. ...
•    The other actors are fine and the story line is all right, but Clara just takes this film and runs with it. ...
•    Clara Bow was and is truly a film legend and deserves much more notice than she has received. ...
• This is entirely due to the presence of Clara Bow, whose dynamic performance never lets up for a second. ... This only covers Clara Bow's life and career in a superficial way but we are treated to a wealth of movie clips. Contributions from people who knew Clara Bow also help make this a very enjoyable documentary. ...
• And Madame Glynn declared that the little known actress Clara Bow had IT, and that Clara would star in a movie called IT.
• But it would have all been naught--except for the fact that Clara Bow really did have IT. ...
•    Make no mistake about it: Bow is a LOT of fun to watch, a doll-like beauty with an infectious smile and bubbly energy. And IT, the very slight story of a shop girl smitten with love for the big boss (Antonio Moreno), is tailor-made to display her charms; comic actor William Austin also has several good moments as Bow's would-be suitor. Clara Bow would appear in considerably more sophistocated films later in her career, but IT provides a great introduction to one of the most adorable actresses to grace the silent screen. ...

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