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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Clara_BowClara Bow - Wikipedia

    Clara Gordon Bow (/ b oʊ /; July 29, 1905 – September 27, 1965) was an American actress who rose to stardom during the silent film era of the 1920s and successfully made the transition to "talkies" in 1929.Her appearance as a plucky shopgirl in the film It brought her global fame and the nickname "The It Girl". Bow came to personify the Roaring Twenties and is described as its leading sex ...

  2. Apr 18, 2024 · The Tortured Poets Department includes a song titled “Clara Bow” that seems likely to rekindle interest in the silent film star. Although Bow’s heyday preceded Swift’s by nearly 100 years ...

  3. Feb 6, 2024 · Clara Bow. John Kobal Foundation/Getty. Born July 29, 1905, Bow had a difficult childhood growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y. Her mother suffered from mental illness and was eventually institutionalized ...

  4. www.imdb.com › name › nm0001966Clara Bow - IMDb

    Clara Bow. Actress: Wings. Clara Gordon Bow, destined to become "The It Girl", was born on July 29, 1905 in Brooklyn, New York, and was raised in poverty and violence. Her often absentee and brutish father could not or did not provide and her schizophrenic mother tried to slit Clara's throat when the girl spoke of becoming an actress. Bow, nonetheless, won a photo beauty contest which launched ...

  5. Feb 6, 2024 · Actor Clara Bow was a major box-office draw during the silent film era, starring in dozens of movies in the 1920s. Read about her career, husband, and more.

  6. Apr 19, 2024 · Taylor Swift's new album, The Tortured Poets Department, is out today, and the final track is called "Clara Bow."Bow, famously, was a silent film star, and on the song, Swift sings ""You look like ...

  7. Clara Bow. Actress: Wings. Clara Gordon Bow, destined to become "The It Girl", was born on July 29, 1905 in Brooklyn, New York, and was raised in poverty and violence. Her often absentee and brutish father could not or did not provide and her schizophrenic mother tried to slit Clara's throat when the girl spoke of becoming an actress. Bow, nonetheless, won a photo beauty contest which launched ...

  8. Bow was born in Brooklyn, in 1905, in what her biographer, David Stenn, calls “the most brutal poverty that was known at the time”. Stuck in a tenement slum with an abusive father and a ...

  9. 4 days ago · Clara Bow was born into a poor family; she was sexually abused by her father and neglected by her mother, who suffered from mental illness.She became a Hollywood actress while still in high school by way of a beauty contest held by Motion Picture Classic magazine. Her first part was a small role in Beyond the Rainbow (1922), but her scenes were cut out of the release print.

  10. 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. Granted many older fans who are still alive today remember her with love and affection. She was often cast as a waitress, a manicurist,...