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Silent era actress with a magnetic presence, Clara Bow was the original ‘It Girl’, and the ultimate flapper of the Roarin’ ...
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 rose to stardom during the silent film era and Ariel from ‘The Little Mermaid’ (“But Daddy I Love Him”) trades her voice after Ursula tells her “it’s she who holds her ...
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 ...
“Clara Bow was one of the first really big movie stars and had to pave a way,” she says of her great-grandmother who was nicknamed the first “It girl.” “She just had that larger-than ...
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.
Inspired Life Taylor Swift named a song ‘Clara Bow.’ The 1920s film star is having a moment. A lost film featuring Bow was discovered in October at the bottom of a box of auctioned reels that ...
Expect to hear "Clara Bow" come up a lot in the coming days, because she's the (extremely iconic) namesake of track 16 on Taylor Swift's album The Tortured Poets Department. And if you're not ...
America’s ‘hottest Jazz baby’ Bow’s career got its start in her native New York, where in 1921, at the age of 16, she won a beauty contest and got a bit part in a film as her prize.
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.
The great-grandchildren of Clara Bow are feeling the love after Taylor Swift named a song after the iconic 1920s actress on The Tortured Poets Department. In a new interview with People, Nicole ...
Clara Bow’s family is thrilled that she seems to be Taylor Swift’s new muse! While Swifties believe the 34-yeaar-old’s upcoming album title, The Tortured Poet’s Department, could be a nod ...