Clara Bow
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia | Date: 2007
(born July 29, 1905, Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S.—died Sept. 27, 1965, Los Angeles, Calif.) U.S. film actress. At age 16 she won a magazine contest that gave her a bit part in a film. Hired by Paramount Pictures in 1925, she played larger roles in silent films such as Mantrap (1926) and Kid Boots (1926). After her starring role as a flapper in the popular film It (1927), Bow became known as “the It girl,” with “It” being understood as the appeal of a liberated young woman. She starred in 20 more films (1927–30), but scandals and nervous breakdowns undermined her career.
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Bow's travails
The Village Voice; 5/2/2000; Camhi, Leslie; 464 words
; It Came from Brooklyn CLARA BOW Film Forum Mondays, May 1 through June 12 So many "It" Girls have come and gone since the term was invented for Clara Bow But who, onscreen, could equal her sensuality, emotional fervor, joie de vivre, and sheer animal magnetism? David Stenn's biography, Clara Bow:
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Words It, pron.
The Independent - London; 4/27/2000; CHRISTOPHER HAWTREE; 85 words
; It, pron. YESTERDAY'S NEWSPAPER asserted that Nancy Mitford was "the socialite for whom the phrase `It Girl' was coined in the 1930s" rather than Clara Bow a decade earlier, in the 1927 movie, It, from Elinor Glyn's unreadable romantic novel. While the copulatory sense is 17th century, this one of
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ASK THE GLOBE
The Boston Globe; 6/29/1993; 162 words
; Q. What ever happened to the movies' famous "It Girl," Clara Bow? D.G., Boston A. The rage of the Roaring Twenties, Clara Bow was a red-headed 16-year-old from Brooklyn when a beauty contest run by Motion Picture magazine won her a silent movie role as first prize. (The nickname "It Girl" came from
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But a notable no-show was Courtney Love.
Multichannel News; 6/7/1999; Gibbons, Kent; 119 words
; Turner Classic Movies drew a nostalgic old Hollywood crowd to the debut of its original documentary, Clara Bow: Discovering the 'It' Girl, last Thursday night. Part of the attraction was the venue -- the former site of Chasen's Restaurant in Hollywood. Attendees were overheard reminiscing over
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Premiere set for a premier exhibit
The Boston Globe; 2/11/1995; John R. White, Globe Staff; 440 words
; Brookline's Museum of Transportation is going Hollywood. The 1995 exhibit "Cars of the Stars" opens to the public Sunday, Feb. 19, but it "premieres" the Saturday evening before in aHollywood-style bash with music, food and Hollywood "look-alikes." The look-alikes, presumably, would be doubles for
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