Clara was Incredible. Still one of the most beautiful and captivating women of the silver screen. If she showed up in Hollywood now, she would put them all to shame.
@@seangrif11 if you're 6 and in preschool, you're an idiot. You should at least be in Kindergarten. Not to mention, who cares when someone replies, that first comment is as old as the "It girl" 🤷🏿♂️
The phrase the IT GIRL is still applied to some current showbiz women. But this is really the one and only IT GIRL even so many years are on. This woman was really something special.
I think this woman was one of the sexiest females in history!! Her eyes are SO hypnotizing---and that adorable pouty face with those cupid lips--MAN she really and truly had IT!! She was just so luscious!! And the IT factor was because it seemed to come so naturally to her---to me the film is about her character using the IT factor not in a threatening or manipulative way but in a free, liberated, confident, and sexy way! She truly was in many respects way ahead of her time!!
Look at the rapid fire of emotions in about 4 seconds starting a :50. Forget her appeal (which is amazing), that's just damn good technique. Not only can you feel what that character is feeling, you're rooting for her too. Amazing.
There's 5 ladies from the entire history of film, that were the total package for me. Clara Bow, Lilian Gish, Hedy Lemar, Gene Tierny, And Maurene O' Hara. There were others I liked, but these ladies were it for me.
@@fordhamdonnington2738 Marlon Brando disagreed. She ran into the problem many silent film stars did, with her Brooklyn accent. Which wasn't all that bad in her case, but she was mentally ill and couldn't handle the pressure to adjust.
What a sad life but what a fire of a woman, she was deeply herself but deserved more support and love than she got during her childhood and career, esp for mental health
Isn't it a reference that just got lost to time, the same way bugs bunny's carroted "What's up, Doc?" was directly a reference, that then people lost the original context for. To use yet another BB example, Nimrod was used sarcastically, like how "No Shit, Sherlock" is these decades, except Sherlock would have been forgotten and people would have used Sherlock as a shorthand for an idiot.
when I first discovered her in the late 60s I thought, wow she looks just like the beautiful stars of today, that still holds true in 2013....Clara Bow is the one that got me interested in film history....one small photo of her and that was IT
Awesome video! And I LOVE this song! Ever since I first heard it in the Clara Bow documentary "Discovering the 'It' Girl"! She was one of the best and still is!
That's so cool! I actually own It with the Hugh M. Hefner production of The It Girl Remembered or something like that (I don't remember the actual title) and I remember Rex Bell Jr. talking about his mother. It was sweet.
I read the biography of her. she hit big when she was only in her teens. she got the cold shoulder from all of the phonies who thought they were better than a little uneducated gal from Brooklyn. It just made me like her more. My mom was born the same year as her (1905) and loved her movies. I felt really bad for her after reading David Steens book but it is good. Its called Running Wild and i highly recommend it. She did nothing anyone else did, she was jsut honest about what she did and the rest of them lied.
+bacsi19461 Don't overly glorify her. She stepped on a lot of people along the way to her success too. She even mocked people who were in love with her. She also slept with an entire football team if that's saying something.
+Spider Man That wasnt true and was just one of many rumors about her, that one being from a trashy tabloid book called Hollywood Babylon. She had a horrific poverty stricken n abusive childhood but she stepped on no one to get to where she was. In fact she was overused and underpaid throughout her career, then tossed aside by the studios when she was emotionally n physically exhausted...
I'm from California. Yes, I heard about the Clara Bow documentary during the Christmas/New Year's holiday, and I hope the BBC has placed it on it's website. If not, I hope someone would place it on UA-cam. And yes, Clara is mesmorizing and intoxicating! 😀 That's why she's on my profile picture.
Grew up watching silent movies, back in the 1970's. Clara Bow was a regular on TV back then. She is spectacular, and would not be out of place today -- after all that look, while fashionable at the time, was still very unique. However, I remember being a teen in the early 80's and see lots of pop tarts, video vixens and models, from the U.K., and New York and L.A. whose style was obviously inspired -- maybe subliminally -- by Bow.
Good for you! I first heard about Clara Bow back in 1976, when I saw the Today show in May/June of that year, when film critic Gene Schalert(sp?) talked about that Morella & Epstein book, The It Girl-The Incredible Story of Clara Bow. I also saw the book at book stores at the time(I was 7 in 1976; I turned 8 on December 30 of that year). =D
I agree as well. She can still be as bright and current as she was back then, because she had spunk and heart and didn't give a damn.I think she was one of the most real people Hollwood had to offer and they shunned her for it, yet they went on and lived their own scandolous lives. Such hypocrysy! The sad thing is it still goes on today. Onn a lighter note, i read that in the early 90s they found one of her lost films! I hope Kino can put out on DVD soon... Long live Clara Bow!!!!!! : )- Becca
its ashame that many of her films are lost, more than likely, lost to history, eternity, but i want to remain open to a miracle, that some of her lost films out there survive, awaiting to be rediscovered
She was also beautiful in color film, too! UCLA has color fragments from her first movie of 1928, RED HAIR, where the beginning of it was filmed in Technicolor to show off her red hair, one of Clara's famous attribute. =)
Great footage from "It". Check out my two Clara Bow videos. Let`s keep Clara Bow alive and give her the recognition she really deserves. She was the first sex symbol and she had the talent and charm that no other actress has ever had. RIP
Yes she did, Rudi. She died on Monday, September 27, 1965, at 12:06AM. She was 60 years of age, despite the fact that she cut two years off her age back in 1942, just before she turned 37 on July 29 of that years. She began claiming that she was "35," and from that point until her death, she always claimed she was younger than that. She was born on Saturday, July 29, 1905.
Clara Bow was perfect for her time period but her appeal was era based. She did not have big breasts. She did not have big buttocks. Rather, her figure was of the clean, neat type favored during the time period, a kind of boyish breadstick look. Her eyes were fascinating, her face was amazingly cute (not necessarily beautiful), and she had an energetic manner that captivated.
Yes, that was Rex Bell Jr., who died on July 8, 2011. My friend and fellow Clara Bow fans Ruth Silny told me about. She even went to Las Vegas to attend Rex Jr.'s memorial; she sent me the program of the event.
I have read David Stenn's book and got a different take. Clara was dumped on most of her life, and simply wanted to loved. Often in this quest she reached out to the wrong source, and as was stated in the book, was a victim waiting to be victimized. A recurring theme in the book was that Clara was left alone, despite her success and popularity. I wonder what would have been her last 15 years if Dr von Hagen or Rex Bell spent their efforts reinforcing her self worth instead of her isolation.
Wow! I erroneously thought there were only a few silent movie stars but was I wrong and Clara Bow, so beautiful and talented, I wonder if she ever did a talking picture? Thanks to you coopsgirl07 and Match Game 75 /Charles Nelson Reilly for giving me the scoop of this beautiful Chick!
Clara was Incredible. Still one of the most beautiful and captivating women of the silver screen. If she showed up in Hollywood now, she would put them all to shame.
Uh....you're aware that it's a different time, right? What you're saying is absurd.
@@mw9771 "A different time" is right...you just replied to a comment that's old enough for preschool. 🤦🏻♂️
@@seangrif11 if you're 6 and in preschool, you're an idiot. You should at least be in Kindergarten.
Not to mention, who cares when someone replies, that first comment is as old as the "It girl" 🤷🏿♂️
@@mw9771 It’s not absurd, it makes sense because she’s got “it”.
@@mw9771 you're a mundane fool
After all these years, Clara still has IT !!!
Steve Paul YUP!!!! 👍👍👍👍👍 😀😀😀😀😀
@@dariowiter3078 And so Does BETTY BOOP.
🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩💘💘💘💘💘💘💘😍😍😍
@@davidwesley2525She's the only cartoon character that has "It" like Clara. 😁😁😁😁😁
@@davidwesley2525 Boop oop y doop ! ! ! ! !
The phrase the IT GIRL is still applied to some current showbiz women. But this is really the one and only IT GIRL even so many years are on. This woman was really something special.
She had no idea we would still be watching her in 2018
And in 2024
Clara bow ficou com escrezofrenica vindo a falecer em,1965 😢😢😢
I've had a crush on Clara for more than an hundred years.
Clara had an incredibly expressive face. She was staggeringly beautiful.
I think this woman was one of the sexiest females in history!! Her eyes are SO hypnotizing---and that adorable pouty face with those cupid lips--MAN she really and truly had IT!! She was just so luscious!! And the IT factor was because it seemed to come so naturally to her---to me the film is about her character using the IT factor not in a threatening or manipulative way but in a free, liberated, confident, and sexy way! She truly was in many respects way ahead of her time!!
I couldn't agree with you more. All these years later. She's still the first name people think of as the it girl above all the others.
nyterpfan Absolutely! 😁😁😁😁😁 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 💜💜💜💜💜
nyterpfan has
When she was older, in her fifties, the neighbor kids called her "the pretty old lady". Yes, indeed.
Simp
Look at the rapid fire of emotions in about 4 seconds starting a :50. Forget her appeal (which is amazing), that's just damn good technique. Not only can you feel what that character is feeling, you're rooting for her too. Amazing.
She'd fit right in 2024. Shes timeless. That outfit is amazing on Clara!
YUP!!!!! 😁😁😁😁😁 💘💘💘💘💘 💖💖💖💖💖 💞💞💞💞💞 💋💋💋💋💋
For my money, Clara was the most drop-dead gorgeous lady in movie history. And with enormous talent, too.
There's 5 ladies from the entire history of film, that were the total package for me. Clara Bow, Lilian Gish, Hedy Lemar, Gene Tierny, And Maurene O' Hara. There were others I liked, but these ladies were it for me.
It wasn’t enormous enough to make through to sound.
@@fordhamdonnington2738 Marlon Brando disagreed. She ran into the problem many silent film stars did, with her Brooklyn accent. Which wasn't all that bad in her case, but she was mentally ill and couldn't handle the pressure to adjust.
@@fordhamdonnington2738 Actually it did. Some of her talkies show her in top form..
@@johnmagill7714 There’s a lot of gorgeous ones. Gloria Swanson, Lauren Bacall, Audrey Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck, Bette Davis to name a few…
There hasn't been anyone in Hollywood like her since.
Love Clara! So a head of her time and a time less beauty.
Clara Bow really invokes The Jazz Age, and all that's good about the 1920s. She still has "It" today. A wonderful tribute. Great job. 5☆
What a sad life but what a fire of a woman, she was deeply herself but deserved more support and love than she got during her childhood and career, esp for mental health
👍👍👍👍👍 👏👏👏👏👏 😃😃😃😃😃
Just the slight little expressions and mannerisms she had that nobody else of the day did. She was electric on screen.
1:23...holy cow, it actually welled me up! That brassiness, and the soft vulnerability. No wonder they went nuts for her.
Back when she got into movies 50 million people a week in the U.S would go to see movies. That was nearly half the population at that time.
She is the most magnetic energetic woman on film I have ever seen and that includes Garbo and Monroe...she blows them ALL away!
1:35 Clara Bow invented the Marilyn Monroe's dress flowing up.
I was going to say the same thing
Isn't it a reference that just got lost to time, the same way bugs bunny's carroted "What's up, Doc?" was directly a reference, that then people lost the original context for. To use yet another BB example, Nimrod was used sarcastically, like how "No Shit, Sherlock" is these decades, except Sherlock would have been forgotten and people would have used Sherlock as a shorthand for an idiot.
Clara is nothing short of a goddess. Love that girl
They should make a movie about her life...so inspiring and sad at the same time
Well..here we are in 2021..and still enchanting as ever ..-)
She’s got it!!❤⭐️
She was just simply beautiful inside and out..thanks for posting.
GREAT!!! Oh yes,She's Got It!
What a cutie!
If there ever was a cutie, she was IT ❤
Smokin' hot!
I CANNOT BELIEVE I FOUND THIS!!! THIS IS GREAT WORK AND I AM SO GRATEFUL!!!
Talkies don't rule in TEXAS!!!
I love this movie,..i'f got 28 of her movies,..this one is definitly in my top 3
I love her sooooooooooooooooooooooo much!
Clara Bow is a goddess. :)
when I first discovered her in the late 60s I thought, wow she looks just like the beautiful stars of today, that still holds true in 2013....Clara Bow is the one that got me interested in film history....one small photo of her and that was IT
Clara Bow.....the greatest flapper of them all! 😁😁😁😁😁 💘💘💘💘💘 💖💖💖💖💖 💞💞💞💞💞 💋💋💋💋💋
She was the epitome of the flapper!
@@denisenoe3702 ABSOLUTELY!!!!! 😁😁😁😁😁 💘💘💘💘💘 💖💖💖💖💖 💞💞💞💞💞 💋💋💋💋💋
I love her shes so pretty and the song is great too!! ❤❤❤❤🎉🎉
Clara is always a treat. Thanks.
aaaa I love Clara Bow! :)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEAUTIFUL BABY
Clara was adorable ♥
Awesome video! And I LOVE this song! Ever since I first heard it in the Clara Bow documentary "Discovering the 'It' Girl"! She was one of the best and still is!
Quite simply the most beautiful creature ever to grace celluloid!
That's so cool! I actually own It with the Hugh M. Hefner production of The It Girl Remembered or something like that (I don't remember the actual title) and I remember Rex Bell Jr. talking about his mother. It was sweet.
Clara LOVE 🥰
I love this video, and the song gets stuck in my head all the time!
She's so cute!
Timeless beauty like she possessed is eternal.
I just read an interview with Robbie Margot on variety and this is how I come to know of Clara Bow .1/2023
I read the biography of her. she hit big when she was only in her teens. she got the cold shoulder from all of the phonies who thought they were better than a little uneducated gal from Brooklyn. It just made me like her more. My mom was born the same year as her (1905) and loved her movies. I felt really bad for her after reading David Steens book but it is good. Its called Running Wild and i highly recommend it. She did nothing anyone else did, she was jsut honest about what she did and the rest of them lied.
bacsi19461 Thanks for the info on the book ! Just looked the reviews up ...and it looks really good..next on my list to read! :-)
~Marion
+bacsi19461 Don't overly glorify her. She stepped on a lot of people along the way to her success too. She even mocked people who were in love with her. She also slept with an entire football team if that's saying something.
+Spider Man That wasnt true and was just one of many rumors about her, that one being from a trashy tabloid book called Hollywood Babylon. She had a horrific poverty stricken n abusive childhood but she stepped on no one to get to where she was. In fact she was overused and underpaid throughout her career, then tossed aside by the studios when she was emotionally n physically exhausted...
I LOVE that you put this song with the movie. I always think of it when I see the film, although it's not in "It". She's adorable. Great job.
I enjoyed the clip and the song too. Thank you for sharing!
------Ellen
Film and song are a perfect combination! Thank you!!!
Can you imagine that Marilyn Monroe was one year old that time?
When the movie IT(1927) was released to the general public on February 19, 1927, Marilyn was exactly 8 months and 18 days old. 😀
Oh my God! Thanks for sharing this with us!
+sugar love You're welcome! 😁
I know with all that time, she could have looked like Clara Bow...
+William Murray what?
I love Clara! Nice contribution!
------Ellen
Clara Bow was HOT! Beautiful eyes.
she has IT
😁😁😁😁😁 👍👍👍👍👍
Darn! I can't get music from Rhapsody or iTunes! I want this on a CD so bad!!!!!
A TRUE LEGEND OF THE SILVER SCREEN
Thanks again for this wonderful Treat.
I love Clara Bow.She's my favourite silent star with Louise Brooks and Billie Dove.
Why did Hollywood forget about Clara Bow? She was the "It" girl. A box office star in the 20's.
I'm from California. Yes, I heard about the Clara Bow documentary during the Christmas/New Year's holiday, and I hope the BBC has placed it on it's website. If not, I hope someone would place it on UA-cam. And yes, Clara is mesmorizing and intoxicating! 😀 That's why she's on my profile picture.
She was so gorgeous and so sad
Now I understand Betty Boop's hairstyle!
I love clara bow ♥
Poor girl had a hard time but she had IT!
Oh la la! I love this picture. It's lots o fun!
Yes, she was so beautiful.
Rip 🪦 Clara Bow
😁😁😁😁😁
Yes, indeed! Clara could still be beautiful in our day & age, believe me.
Happy Birthday Clara Bow❤❤🎂🎂
Grew up watching silent movies, back in the 1970's. Clara Bow was a regular on TV back then. She is spectacular, and would not be out of place today -- after all that look, while fashionable at the time, was still very unique. However, I remember being a teen in the early 80's and see lots of pop tarts, video vixens and models, from the U.K., and New York and L.A. whose style was obviously inspired -- maybe subliminally -- by Bow.
Good for you! I first heard about Clara Bow back in 1976, when I saw the Today show in May/June of that year, when film critic Gene Schalert(sp?) talked about that Morella & Epstein book, The It Girl-The Incredible Story of Clara Bow. I also saw the book at book stores at the time(I was 7 in 1976; I turned 8 on December 30 of that year). =D
Pretty dog-gone cute!!
Clara ❤️❤️❤️
😁😁😁😁😁 💘💘💘💘💘 💖💖💖💖💖 💞💞💞💞💞 💋💋💋💋💋(these emojis are for Clara!)
Clara Bow is beatiful
Clara Bow(1905-1965) was the famous "It Girl" in silent film, who made the famous movie called IT(1927); this video is showing all the clips from IT.
WONDERFUL CLARA BOW A REAL SUPER STAR
coopsgirl07 Thank you for the clip. She certainly had it and so does YvettewhogetsIt!
I agree as well. She can still be as bright and current as she was back then, because she had spunk and heart and didn't give a damn.I think she was one of the most real people Hollwood had to offer and they shunned her for it, yet they went on and lived their own scandolous lives. Such hypocrysy! The sad thing is it still goes on today. Onn a lighter note, i read that in the early 90s they found one of her lost films! I hope Kino can put out on DVD soon... Long live Clara Bow!!!!!! : )- Becca
Thanks! Harry Reaser sings this version and Ted Weems did a good version of it too.
Very attractive: a real knock-out!
Fun flick I have a copy - Love the ending....
Fantastic vid thanks for this. I have tried mashing this video up with FYC doing Ever Fallen in love... I think it works really well.
I had to come back and watch this b/c I'm digging this song. I'm downloading a torrent now.
I'm doing a broadway show at my school and I'm played as her (:
how was it?
Beautiful, cute, endearing, sexy--all that and a genius in front of a camera.
@Citizen X and Joan Crawford in Our Dancing Daughters. I like all of them.
its ashame that many of her films are lost, more than likely, lost to history, eternity, but i want to remain open to a miracle, that some of her lost films out there survive, awaiting to be rediscovered
She was also beautiful in color film, too! UCLA has color fragments from her first movie of 1928, RED HAIR, where the beginning of it was filmed in Technicolor to show off her red hair, one of Clara's famous attribute. =)
Great footage from "It". Check out my two Clara Bow videos. Let`s keep Clara Bow alive and give her the recognition she really deserves. She was the first sex symbol and she had the talent and charm that no other actress has ever had. RIP
She's beautiful and so lively. And, am i crazy or is that Rudyard Kipling at 0:37???
I read on Wiki that he is alo one of the "It" concept authors.
Darling Clara Bow as “Betty Lou Spence” ❤️🌹🌹💕with Antonio Moreno, Priscilla Bonner ❤️🌹🌹and William Austin!
12214 Aneta St. Culver City, was Clara Bow's bungalow
After babylon?
Yes she did, Rudi. She died on Monday, September 27, 1965, at 12:06AM. She was 60 years of age, despite the fact that she cut two years off her age back in 1942, just before she turned 37 on July 29 of that years. She began claiming that she was "35," and from that point until her death, she always claimed she was younger than that. She was born on Saturday, July 29, 1905.
Clara Bow was perfect for her time period but her appeal was era based. She did not have big breasts. She did not have big buttocks. Rather, her figure was of the clean, neat type favored during the time period, a kind of boyish breadstick look. Her eyes were fascinating, her face was amazingly cute (not necessarily beautiful), and she had an energetic manner that captivated.
Adorable
Wow.
Yes, that was Rex Bell Jr., who died on July 8, 2011. My friend and fellow Clara Bow fans Ruth Silny told me about. She even went to Las Vegas to attend Rex Jr.'s memorial; she sent me the program of the event.
So cute❤❤❤
I have read David Stenn's book and got a different take. Clara was dumped on most of her life, and simply wanted to loved. Often in this quest she reached out to the wrong source, and as was stated in the book, was a victim waiting to be victimized. A recurring theme in the book was that Clara was left alone, despite her success and popularity. I wonder what would have been her last 15 years if Dr von Hagen or Rex Bell spent their efforts reinforcing her self worth instead of her isolation.
Wow! I erroneously thought there were only a few silent movie stars but was I wrong and Clara Bow, so beautiful and talented, I wonder if she ever did a talking picture? Thanks to you coopsgirl07 and Match Game 75 /Charles Nelson Reilly for giving me the scoop of this beautiful Chick!
shes the girl that made that made me fall