Clara Bow: Hollywood's Original It Girl — The Roaring Twenties, Paramount Superstardom, and the Scandals That Changed Everything

Podcast: When They Were Making It · Patrick Rankin

Opublikowano: 2026-11-03

She was the face of the Roaring Twenties, Hollywood's original It Girl, and one of the biggest box-office stars of the silent era. Then the headlines stopped being about her movies. From a Brooklyn tenement to Paramount superstardom, Clara Bow's rise was extraordinary. With Mantrap, It, and the Oscar-winning Wings, she helped define a generation. But the arrival of talking pictures, relentless studio pressures, and a string of explosive scandals threatened everything she'd built. In 1931, the sensational trial of her former secretary, Daisy DeVoe, turned Bow's private life into a national spectacle. This week, we're...