Clara Bow was an actress who was born in 1905 in ... She even tried committing suicide with a note she left behind in 1944. Five years later, she checked into a psychiatric facility in Connecticut ...

Silent film star Clara Bow, Hollywood’s first-ever “It Girl ... Bow rose to fame a few years later when she starred in It (1927), a film about an irresistibly cool and charming shopgirl ...

Biographer David Stenn asserts: “Billy Wilder called it ‘flesh impact’ … and the only people he ever saw who had that were Clara Bow and Marilyn Monroe.” But in just a few short years ...