Clara Bow

Clara Gordon Bow was an American actress who rose to stardom in silent film during the 1920s and successfully made the transition to talkies after 1927. Her appearance as a plucky shopgirl in the film It brought her global fame and the nickname The It Girl. Bow came to personify the Roaring Twenties and is described as its leading sex symbol.

Bow was born in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn at 697 Bergen Street, in a bleak, sparsely furnished room above dilapidated Baptist Church. Her birth year, according to the US Censuses of 1910 and 1920, was 1905. The 1930 census indicates 1906 and on her gravestone of 1965, the inscription says 1907, but 1905 is the accepted year by a majority of sources.

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