Silent era actress with a magnetic presence, Clara Bow was the original ‘It Girl’, and the ultimate flapper of the Roarin’ ...

The early life of Clara Bow Clara Bow was born on July 29, 1905, in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, New York. However, some argue that she was born in 1907, and that is what was listed on her gravestone.

Clara Bow biographer David Stenn said she was the most popular film start of the late-1920s. “The fact that this film was discovered a century after it was made, when does that happen?” he said.

Bow was born Clara Gordon Bow in Brooklyn, New York on July 29, 1905, Stenn told TODAY. She came into the world in the middle of a heat wave, after a risky pregnancy (her two older sisters had ...

During this era, Bow was dubbed “The It Girl,” based on her performance in the 1927 movie It. (Bow plays shopgirl Betty Lou, who vies for the affections of her manager, Cyrus.

Actress Clara Bow — the reason the term “ It Girl ” got its name — is having a moment, nearly 60 years after the iconic silent film star died.

Clara Bow had it. And it nearly destroyed her. “It,” in the parlance of the 1920s, was sex appeal, and as a documentary premiering tonight on TCM amply demonstrates, Bow was one of the … ...

One track on Taylor Swift’s new album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” honors a long-celebrated, oft-miscast heroine of American feminism: actress Clara Bow.

Clara Bow biographer David Stenn said she was the most popular film start of the late-1920s. “The fact that this film was discovered a century after it was made, when does that happen?” he said.

Clara Bow biographer David Stenn said she was the most popular film start of the late-1920s. “The fact that this film was discovered a century after it was made, when does that happen?” he said.