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" 🤷🏿♂️
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!!
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.
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.
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...
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!
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.
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.
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
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 TH-cam. And yes, Clara is mesmorizing and intoxicating! 😀 That's why she's on my profile picture.
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
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.
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. =)
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
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
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.
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
Clara had an incredibly expressive face. She was staggeringly beautiful.
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 ! ! ! ! !
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
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'd fit right in 2024. Shes timeless. That outfit is amazing on Clara!
Love Clara! So a head of her time and a time less beauty.
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.
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…
She had no idea we would still be watching her in 2018
And in 2024
I've had a crush on Clara for more than an hundred years.
She is the most magnetic energetic woman on film I have ever seen and that includes Garbo and Monroe...she blows them ALL away!
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
What a cutie!
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.
There hasn't been anyone in Hollywood like her since.
If there ever was a cutie, she was IT ❤
Clara Bow was HOT! Beautiful eyes.
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☆
Clara is nothing short of a goddess. Love that girl
After babylon?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEAUTIFUL BABY
Just the slight little expressions and mannerisms she had that nobody else of the day did. She was electric on screen.
Timeless beauty like she possessed is eternal.
They should make a movie about her life...so inspiring and sad at the same time
Clara Bow.....the greatest flapper of them all! 😁😁😁😁😁 💘💘💘💘💘 💖💖💖💖💖 💞💞💞💞💞 💋💋💋💋💋
She was the epitome of the flapper!
She’s got it!!❤⭐️
She's so cute!
I love her sooooooooooooooooooooooo much!
Clara Bow is a goddess. :)
Now I understand Betty Boop's hairstyle!
GREAT!!! Oh yes,She's Got It!
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 was just simply beautiful inside and out..thanks for posting.
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...
Clara was adorable ♥
Smokin' hot!
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
I love Clara Bow.She's my favourite silent star with Louise Brooks and Billie Dove.
Clara LOVE 🥰
Clara is always a treat. Thanks.
Happy Birthday Clara Bow❤❤🎂🎂
aaaa I love Clara Bow! :)
She was so gorgeous and so sad
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?
Quite simply the most beautiful creature ever to grace celluloid!
Well..here we are in 2021..and still enchanting as ever ..-)
I love this movie,..i'f got 28 of her movies,..this one is definitly in my top 3
I just read an interview with Robbie Margot on variety and this is how I come to know of Clara Bow .1/2023
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!
Yes, she was so beautiful.
I love clara bow ♥
I love her shes so pretty and the song is great too!! ❤❤❤❤🎉🎉
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.
Yes, indeed! Clara could still be beautiful in our day & age, believe me.
she has IT
😁😁😁😁😁 👍👍👍👍👍
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.
Film and song are a perfect combination! Thank you!!!
A TRUE LEGEND OF THE SILVER SCREEN
Poor girl had a hard time but she had IT!
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
I love this video, and the song gets stuck in my head all the time!
Rip 🪦 Clara Bow
😁😁😁😁😁
Clara Bow is beatiful
Clara ❤️❤️❤️
😁😁😁😁😁 💘💘💘💘💘 💖💖💖💖💖 💞💞💞💞💞 💋💋💋💋💋(these emojis are for Clara!)
Darling Clara Bow as “Betty Lou Spence” ❤️🌹🌹💕with Antonio Moreno, Priscilla Bonner ❤️🌹🌹and William Austin!
Why did Hollywood forget about Clara Bow? She was the "It" girl. A box office star in the 20's.
I CANNOT BELIEVE I FOUND THIS!!! THIS IS GREAT WORK AND I AM SO GRATEFUL!!!
Talkies don't rule in TEXAS!!!
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.
Darn! I can't get music from Rhapsody or iTunes! I want this on a CD so bad!!!!!
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.
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 TH-cam. And yes, Clara is mesmorizing and intoxicating! 😀 That's why she's on my profile picture.
Pretty dog-gone cute!!
Thanks again for this wonderful Treat.
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
I enjoyed the clip and the song too. Thank you for sharing!
------Ellen
I love Clara! Nice contribution!
------Ellen
Oh la la! I love this picture. It's lots o fun!
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.
Wathing this in 2024 as a 14 year old
WONDERFUL CLARA BOW A REAL SUPER STAR
Very attractive: a real knock-out!
Thanks! Harry Reaser sings this version and Ted Weems did a good version of it too.
coopsgirl07 Thank you for the clip. She certainly had it and so does YvettewhogetsIt!
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.
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. =)
I'm doing a broadway show at my school and I'm played as her (:
how was it?
Wow.
What a honey!
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
So cute❤❤❤
❤️❤️❤️❤️
😁😁😁😁😁
after babylon
shes the girl that made that made me fall
Clara at her peak -- her best film, "It"
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
Ela era esplêndida! A verdadeira It girl!
I have to disagree with the song- Clara really WAS exquisite!
did youtube pull all your complete , Clara Bow films, if they did that is a real shame, no one gets to see these gems
Fun flick I have a copy - Love the ending....
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.