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  1. Apr 18, 2024 · Indeed, at the young age of 16, Clara Bow seemed on the way to making her cherished fantasy a reality. Notably, Taylor Swift was also sixteen when she released her debut album. Bow’s promised ...

  2. Apr 20, 2024 · American actress Clara Bow was one of the most successful film stars of the silent era and became the original "it girl" after starring in the 1927 hit film, It. Pic: AP. And although her profession doesn't match Swift's, there are clear parallels when it comes to the trajectory of her career and some of the attention that followed.

  3. Apr 18, 2024 · Clara Bow (born July 29, 1905, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.—died September 27, 1965, Los Angeles, California) was an American motion-picture actress, called the “It” Girl after she performed in It (1927), the popular silent-film version of Elinor Glyn’s novel of that name.

  4. 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.

  5. Dec 22, 2014 · Clara Bow: The original ‘It Girl’. By Nicholas Barber,Features correspondent. (Corbis) The 1920s actress became a new kind of down-to-earth Hollywood idol. Her film It established a female...

  6. Apr 20, 2024 · Taylor Swift and Clara Bow have much in common: a meteoric rise to fame built on talent and hard work; a series of closely watched love affairs; and legal drama with managers, former friends and ...

  7. Jan 13, 2024 · Updated January 23, 2024. After winning a beauty contest when she was 16, Clara Bow went to Hollywood and became a popular actress — but her fairytale story ended in tragedy. Clara Bow was the inimitable “It Girl” of the Roaring Twenties, the epitome of the flapper girl.

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