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THE CLARA BOW STORY 2
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The June, 1922 issue of Motion Picture Classic Magazine featured a spread on an unknown sixteen year old Brooklynite, the winner of the 1921 Fame and Fortune Contest. The article, A Dream Come True, was appropriately titled. To Clara, this must have seemed to be the chance of a lifetime– not only
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THE CLARA BOW STORY
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“Clara Bow is the quintessence of what the term flapper signifies… pretty, impudent, superbly assured, as world-wise, briefly-clad and ‘hard-berled’ as possible.” To the generation of the Roaring 20’s, Clara Bow was just this, and more. She was the nation’s “It” girl. She epitomized the bobbed-haired, painted, rouged, bare-kneed flapper,
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