It Girl

relationships

This evergreen explainer clarifies who Clara Bow was and why her name surfaces in conversations about Taylor Swift. There is no romantic, familial, or professional collaboration...

Biography and Profiles

Clara Gordon Bow (1905–1965) was an American actress who became one of the first major movie stars during the late silent era, celebrated as the original It Girl for her energ...

biography

Clara Gordon Bow emerged from Brooklyn in the late 1920s to become Hollywood’s first true It Girl, embodying a brash, modern femininity that electrified silent cinema. This ev...

film-history

Clara Bow was the defining screen personality of the late 1920s, a working-class New Yorker whose kinetic energy, candid sexuality, and seemingly effortless charisma made her Ho...