Clara Bow Movies – Hollywood’s “It Girl”
her. As a result, she decided to make friends with the boys, who immediately took a liking to her “tomboyish” nature.
When she had turned sixteen, in order to escape her troubled life, Clara began modeling for a number of movie magazines. She had often sought personal sanctuary at the movies and after the shows would pose in front of her mirror practicing her favorite actresses gestures and expressions.
This greatly displeased her mother who would often tell Clara that “acting was for whores” and had occasionally come up behind her and threaten to kill her stating “she would be better off dead then an actress in film.” Because of this, Clara did not disclose to her mother her plans to enter a modeling contest for a chance at the cover shot on a 1921 publication of Motion Picture Magazine.
Clara submitted two photographs for the contest and the judges were
