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“What she desires to do she does. She has a big heart, a remarkable brain, and the most utter contempt for the world in general.”

"BOW, CLARA. Born July 29, 1905, in Brooklyn, N.Y. Won a magazine beauty contest and played a small part in "Down to the Sea in Ships." Made good; rose to bigger and better roles; labelled The It Girl by Elinor Glyn and became great box-office star. Five feet, three inches tall, weighs 110 pounds. Has been engaged, but still undecided."

Clara Bow on the cover of Screenland magazine, 1931.

Clara Bow in a staged publicity photoshoot, listening to a radio. Paramount Pictures, circa 1928.

Photograph by Eugene Robert Richee.

Clara Bow and Louise Brooks for Screenland magazine (Nov 1925–Apr 1926).

'"Silence, please," says Clara Bow, "and I'll tell you all I know about my friends in the movies."'

“We don't want to be morbid or anything like that, and perhaps this is hardly the time or the place, but may we remind her vast public that little Miss Bow is, in addition to grand summer scenery, a really very fine actress?”

"Out of the Lot: Clara Bow playing hookey with her favorite hookey-hound."

*screenland's questions and answers department was a special service for readers, conducted by miss vee dee, who answered questions about pictures and picture players.

Happy Birthday Marilyn! 6/1/1926.

Clara Bow and Buddy Rogers in WINGS (1927).

"How Dorothy Arzner made the taxi sequence with Clara Bow in 'Get Your Man.'" – Screenland 1927.

"Preferred Pictures has a new discovery in the person of Clara Bow, the little Brooklyn girl. Miss Bow is really a find of Elmer Clifton and she made her debut in his "Down to the Sea in Ships." She has just played opposite Glenn Hunter in "Grit" and begins her Preferred Contract with "Maytime."

"Don't miss Wine. It's a thoroughly refreshing draught ... there are only about five actresses who give me a real thrill on the screen – and Clara is nearly five of them" – Grace Kingsley in The Los Angeles Times, August 24