"It (1927 film) ""It"" is a 1927 silent romantic comedy film that tells the story of a shop girl who sets her sights on the handsome, wealthy boss of the department store where she works. It is based on a novella by Elinor Glyn that was originally serialized in ""Cosmopolitan"" magazine. This film turned actress Clara Bow into a major star, and led people to label her the ""It girl"". The film had its world premiere in Los Angeles on January 14, 1927, followed by a New York showing on February 5, 1927. """"It"""" was released to the general public"
"Clara Bow Clara Gordon Bow (; July 29, 1905 – September 27, 1965) was an American actress who rose to stardom in silent film during the 1920s and successfully made the transition to ""talkies"" after 1927. Her appearance as a plucky shopgirl in the film ""It"" brought her global fame and the nickname ""The It Girl"". Bow came to personify the Roaring Twenties and is described as its leading sex symbol. Bow appeared in 46 silent films and 11 talkies, including hits such as ""Mantrap"" (1926), ""It"" (1927), and ""Wings"" (1927). She was named first box-office draw in 1928 and"
"pair. In 1927, Glyn helped to make a star of actress Clara Bow, for whom she coined the sobriquet ""the It girl"". In 1928, Bow also starred in ""Red Hair"", which was based on Glyn's 1905 novel. Apart from being a scriptwriter for the silent movie industry, working for both MGM and Paramount Pictures in Hollywood in the mid-1920s, she had a brief career as one of the earliest female directors. Her family established a company in 1924, Elinor Glyn Ltd, to which she signed her copyrights receiving an income from the firm and an annuity in later life. The"
"County city of San Marcos a week after her 86th birthday. Jacqueline Gadsden Jacqueline Gadsden (August 3, 1900 – August 10, 1986) was an American film actress during the silent era. A native of Southern California, she was born in Lompoc to Gerald F and Jessie H (Salter) Gadsden and is probably best known to modern audiences as the wealthy, haughty other woman in the 1927 Clara Bow vehicle ""It"". She married William Harry Dale (1900–1975) about 1924. In a number of films she was billed as Jacqueline Gadsdon and made two films under the name Jane Daly in 1929,"
"Jacqueline Gadsden Jacqueline Gadsden (August 3, 1900 – August 10, 1986) was an American film actress during the silent era. A native of Southern California, she was born in Lompoc to Gerald F and Jessie H (Salter) Gadsden and is probably best known to modern audiences as the wealthy, haughty other woman in the 1927 Clara Bow vehicle ""It"". She married William Harry Dale (1900–1975) about 1924. In a number of films she was billed as Jacqueline Gadsdon and made two films under the name Jane Daly in 1929, her final year in film. She died in the San Diego"
"$4000 a week for the last year."" Bow added that she intended to leave the motion picture business at the expiration of the contract, i.e., in 1931. In 1927, Bow appeared in six Paramount releases: ""It"", ""Children of Divorce"", ""Rough House Rosie"", ""Wings"", ""Hula"" and ""Get Your Man"". In the Cinderella story ""It"", the poor shop-girl Betty Lou Spence (Bow) conquers the heart of her employer Cyrus Waltham (Antonio Moreno). The personal quality —""It""— provides the magic to make it happen. The film gave Bow her nickname, ""The 'It' Girl."" Dorothy Parker is often said to have referred to Bow"
"of the 1920s. Clara Bow later said she wasn't sure what ""It"" meant, although she identified Lana Turner and later Marilyn Monroe as ""It Girls"", and Robert Mitchum as an ""It Man"". The fashion component of the ""It Girl"" originated with the celebrated couturier Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, known professionally as ""Lucile"", the name under which she managed exclusive salons in London, Paris and New York; she was Elinor Glyn's elder sister. As Lucile, Lucy Duff-Gordon was the first designer to present her collections on a stage complete with the theatrical accoutrements of lights and music, inspiring the modern runway or"
"Peggy Shannon Peggy Shannon (born Winona Sammon, January 10, 1907 Shannon began her career as a Ziegfeld girl in 1923 before moving on to Broadway productions. She was signed to Paramount Pictures and groomed to replace Clara Bow as the newest ""It girl"", whom she replaced in the 1931 film, ""The Secret Call"". Her growing dependency on alcohol eventually derailed her career. She appeared in her final film, ""Triple Justice"", in 1940. In May 1941, Shannon died at the age of 34 from a heart attack, brought on by alcoholism. Her husband, Albert G. Roberts, shot himself three weeks after"
"It"" under the title ""The Greeks Had a Word for Them"" in 1932.) Upon leaving the movie world, Norma Talmadge rid herself of all the duties and responsibilities of stardom. She told eager fans who were pressing her for an autograph as she left a restaurant, ""Get away, dears. I don't need you anymore and you don't need me."" Some time before late 1932, Talmadge decided against marrying Gilbert Roland, as he was 11 years her junior and she feared he would eventually leave her. Mother Peg fell ill in 1931, and died in September 1933. In late 1932, Talmadge"
"Opus"". In the 1990s, other films followed. Later starring roles in films have included ""Landfall"" (2001) and ""Little Red Light"" (2003). Kelly appeared Off Broadway at the York Theatre in the title role in Paul McKibbins and B.T. McNicholl's ""The It Girl"", based on the 1927 movie ""It"". She also appeared in the York's ""Mufti"" series as Lois Lane in ""It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman"". In 1996, Kelly voiced the title role in the second season of the animated series ""Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders"". After several made-for-TV movies, Kelly's broadest exposure came from her roles"
"Janet Gaynor Janet Gaynor (born Laura Augusta Gainor; October 6, 1906 – September 14, 1984) was an American film, stage and television actress and painter. Gaynor began her career as an extra in shorts and silent films. After signing with Fox Film Corporation (later 20th Century-Fox) in 1926, she rose to fame and became one of the biggest box office draws of the era. In 1929, she was the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in three films: ""7th Heaven"" (1927), """" (1927), and ""Street Angel"" (1928). This was the only occasion on which"
"in the 1920s. Starting with ""Male and Female"" (1919), he made a series of films that examined sex and were highly successful. Films featuring Hollywood's original ""It girl"" Clara Bow such as ""The Saturday Night Kid"" (released four days before the October 29, 1929, market crash) highlighted Bow's sexual attractiveness. 1920s stars such as Bow, Gloria Swanson, and Norma Talmadge freely displayed their sexuality in a straightforward fashion. The Great Depression presented a unique time for film-making in the United States. The economic disaster brought on by the stock market crash of 1929 changed American values and beliefs in various"
"threatens to drown them both. At the end of the film, she and Cyrus reconcile on the anchor of the yacht, with the first two letters of the ship's name, ""Itola"", between them. Monty and Adela are upset at losing their friends, but it is implied they pursue a relationship with each other as the film ends. The invention of the concept ""It"" is generally attributed to Elinor Glyn, but already in 1904, Rudyard Kipling, in the short story ""Mrs. Bathurst"" introduced ""It"". In February 1927 ""Cosmopolitan"" published a two-part serial story in which Glyn defined ""It"". Paramount Pictures paid"
"It Girls It Girls is a feature documentary film directed by Robin Melanie Leacock that aired on the Women's Entertainment channel on April 2 and 7 2002. It features wealthy socialites including Casey Johnson, Elisabeth Kieselstein-Cord and Nicky Hilton, as well as appearances by Diane Von Furstenberg, Marisa Berenson and other women. It was filmed in Manhattan during Fashion Week. The film's premise is that anyone can be an it girl. In the documentary, von Furstenberg says ""It's really about being a forever girl!"" Roger Friedman, writing for Fox News, said that this was a ""numbingly mesmerizing documentary"" in which"
"Show Girl (1928 film) Show Girl is a 1928 American silent comedy-drama film starring Alice White and Donald Reed. It was based on the first of J. P. McEvoy's two Dixie Dugan novels, as was the 1929 musical. It was followed by a sequel, ""Show Girl in Hollywood"" (1930). While the film has no audible dialogue, it is accompanied by a Vitaphone sound-on-disc soundtrack with a musical score and sound effects. Dixie Dugan, a Brooklyn cutie, goes to the offices of theatrical producers Eppus and Kibbitzer and exposes her perfections in a bathing suit. Eppus and Kibbitzer express interest in"
"Ida Adams Ida Adams (""c."" 1888 – November 4, 1960), sometimes credited as Ida M. Adams, was an American-born actress and singer who worked chiefly in musical theatre. Her career from 1909 to 1914 was in the United States, then in London's West End from 1915 to 1917. Adams also wrote the story on which the silent film ""Limousine Life"" (1918) starring Olive Thomas was based. Adams's third appearance on stage was at the Knickerbocker Theatre on Broadway on April 27, 1909, playing Miss Glick in ""The Candy Shop"". Later that year, she toured in ""Three Twins"", as Summer Girl"
"roles. Around 1911, she moved to New York City, working in chorus lines and eventually becoming a Ziegfeld Girl. Her hair was brown, but she bleached it when she went to New York. During this period, one of her acting coaches was Beverley Sitgreaves. Eagels was in the supporting cast of ""Mind The Paint Girl"" at the Lyceum Theatre in September 1912. Eagels played opposite George Arliss in three successive plays in 1916 and 1917. In 1915, she appeared in her first motion picture. She also made three films for Thanhouser Film Corporation in 1916-17. In 1918, she appeared in"
"starring Elizabeth Taylor. Hutchinson's Broadway debut came in ""The Bird Cage"" (1925). Her other Broadway credits included ""The Cherry Orchard"" (1933), ""Alice in Wonderland"" (1932), ""Dear Jane"" (1932), ""Alison's House"" (1931), ""Camille"" (1931), ""Alison's House"" (1930), ""The Women Have Their Way"" (1930), ""The Living Corpse"" (1929), ""Mademoiselle Bourrat"" (1929), ""The Cherry Orchard"" (1929), ""The Seagull"" (1929), ""Peter Pan"" (1928), ""The Cherry Orchard"" (1928), ""Hedda Gabler"" (1928), ""Improvisations in June"" (1928), ""The First Stone"" (1928), ""2 x 2 = 5"" (1927), ""The Good Hope"" (1927), ""Inheritors"" (1927), ""The Cradle Song"" (1927), ""Twelfth Night"" (1926), ""The Unchastened Woman"" (1926), and ""A Man's"
"Betty Grable Elizabeth Ruth Grable (December 18, 1916 – July 2, 1973) was an American actress, pin-up girl, dancer, and singer. Her 42 films during the 1930s and 1940s grossed more than $100 million, and she set a record of 12 consecutive years in the top 10 of box office stars. The U.S. Treasury Department in 1946 and 1947 listed her as the highest-salaried American woman; she earned more than $3 million during her career. Grable began her film career in 1929 at age 12, after which she was fired from a contract when it was learned she signed up"
"extras, and technicians to assist in the filming of this World War I epic. Clara Bow (the famous ""It Girl""), Buddy Rogers, and Richard Arlen starred in this silent movie classic which was filmed in and around San Antonio. A young newcomer, Gary Cooper, had a bit part in the show. ""Wings"" received the first Academy Award for ""Best Production of the Year"" for 1927–1928, the first (and until 2011, the only) silent film ever to win this honor. In 1927 basic moved out of the advanced phase and combined with primary. At that point, primary-basic changed to eight months"
"Betty Boyd Elizabeth ""Betty"" Boyd (May 11, 1908 – September 16, 1971) was an American film actress in the early days of Hollywood, mostly in the silent film era of the late 1920s and into the early 1930s in B-movies. Born Elizabeth Boyd Smith in Kansas City, Missouri, Boyd moved to Hollywood in the mid-1920s to pursue an acting career. Her first film role, which was uncredited, was in the 1927 film ""The Show"", which starred John Gilbert and Lionel Barrymore, grand uncle to actress Drew Barrymore. Boyd's first credited role was that same year in ""Off Again"". In 1929"
"when she wrote, ""It, hell; she had Those."" Parker in actuality was not referring to Bow or to Bow's character in the film ""It"", but to a different character, Ava Cleveland, in the novel of the same name. In 1927, Bow starred in ""Wings"", a war picture rewritten to accommodate her, as she was Paramount's biggest star, but was not happy about her part: ""[""Wings"" is]...a man's picture and I'm just the whipped cream on top of the pie."" The film went on to win the first Academy Award for Best Picture. In 1928, Bow appeared in four Paramount releases:"
"It starred Edith Day in the title role, who repeated the role in the London production. It was revived on Broadway in 1923, filmed twice, and had a major Broadway revival in 1973, starring Debbie Reynolds, followed by a 1976 London run that lasted 974 performances. The original Broadway production, directed by Edward Royce, opened on November 18, 1919 at the Vanderbilt Theatre, where it ran for 675 performances, at the time the record for the longest-running show in Broadway history, one it maintained for nearly two decades. The cast included Edith Day as Irene, Walter Regan as tycoon Donald"
"(1915) ""The Sentimental Lady"" (1915) ""The Child of Destiny"" (1916) ""A Coney Island Princess"" (1916) with Owen Moore ""A Girl Like That"" (1917) ""The Sin Woman"" (1917) ""National Red Cross Pageant"" (1917) Irene Fenwick Irene Fenwick (September 5, 1887 – December 24, 1936) was an American stage and silent film actress. She was married to Lionel Barrymore from 1924 until her death in 1936. Fenwick has several surviving features, mainly because she worked for Edison-Kleine, an affiliate of the Edison Company, which has numerous surviving shorts, which is fortunate considering the vintage of these films. Years before marrying Lionel, she"
"marrying Lawson, her seventh husband, Dunbar went by the name Dorothy Wells Lawson. She played bridge and golf, and won some trophies. She died at age ninety in Seattle, Washington. Her memorial service was private by family. Dorothy Dunbar Dorothy Dunbar Lawson (May 28, 1902 – October 23, 1992) was an American actress and socialite, who appeared in silent movies in the 1920s. Born in Cripple Creek, Colorado, Lawson appeared on the Broadway stage as a child in ""The School Girl"" (1904). In 1924, Dunbar went to Hollywood, where she starred in several motion pictures, including her role as the"
"Boulevard. She was one of the first eight stars chosen to receive a star in 1958. Olive Borden Olive Borden (July 14, 1906 – October 1, 1947) was an American film and stage actress who began her career during the silent film era. She was nicknamed ""The Joy Girl"", after playing the lead in the 1927 film of that same title. Borden was known for her jet-black hair and overall beauty. At the peak of her career in the mid-1920s, Borden was earning $1,500 a week. In 1927, she walked out on her contract with Fox after refusing to take"
"The Girl Can't Help It The Girl Can't Help It is a 1956 musical comedy starring Jayne Mansfield in the titular role, Tom Ewell, Edmond O'Brien, Henry Jones, and Julie London. The picture was produced and directed by Frank Tashlin, with a screenplay adapted by Tashlin and Herbert Baker from an uncredited 1955 novel ""Do Re Mi"" by Garson Kanin. The movie was originally intended as a vehicle for the American sex symbol Jayne Mansfield, with a satirical subplot involving teenagers and rock 'n' roll music. The unintended result has been called the ""most potent"" celebration of rock music ever"
"film, but ""School for Girls"" is her final film to be released. Sidney Fox Sidney Fox (born Sarah Leiffer or Liefer, also cited Sadie Fox; December 10, 1907– November 15, 1942) was an American stage and film actress in the late 1920s and 1930s. Fox’s Hollywood film debut was in Universal Pictures’ 1931 production ""Bad Sister"", which is notable for also being the first film of legendary actress Bette Davis. United States census records document that Sidney “Liefer” Fox was born in 1907 in Eastern Europe, in “Poland-Galicia”. In 1911 Sidney immigrated with her Jewish parents—Rucha Rose (née Szapiro) and"
"to ""The ""Mind-the-Paint"" Girl"", her most successful American play. The star's girlish charm rivaled her acting ability, and as she dressed to the hilt in fashionable gowns, furs and jewelry, her clothes sense also won the devotion of female audiences. Among the films in which she appeared during this period were ""Arms and the Girl"" (1917), ""The Mysterious Miss Terry"", ""Let's Get a Divorce"" (1918), ""Good Gracious, Annabelle"" (1919), ""Away Goes Prudence"" (1920) and ""The Frisky Mrs. Johnson"" (1920). The actress's beauty and taste made her a major trendsetter throughout the 1910s and 20s. During this time, much of her"
"It Conquered the World It Conquered the World is an independently made 1956 American black-and-white science fiction film, produced and directed by Roger Corman, starring Peter Graves, Lee Van Cleef, Beverly Garland, and Sally Fraser. ""It Conquered the World"" was released theatrically by American International Pictures as a double feature with ""The She-Creature"". ""It Conquered the World"" concerns an alien creature from the planet Venus that secretly wants to take control of the Earth. The creature makes radio contact with a disillusioned human scientist, who agrees to help because the scientist believes such an alien intervention will bring peace and"
"Won't Forget"" in a tight-fitting knit top is sometimes considered the first case of the ""sweater girl"", as Hollywood publicists sought for a catchy phrase to describe the impact she made on the screen. Movie magazines nicknamed her ""The Sweater Girl,"" just as Ann Sheridan was ""The Oomph Girl,"" Dorothy Lamour ""The Sarong Girl,"" and Clara Bow ""The It Girl."" ""Sweater Girl"" is the name of a 1942 film written by Robert Blees and Beulah Marie Dix, directed by William Clemens and starring Eddie Bracken, June Preisser, Phillip Terry, and Betty Jane Rhodes. From the 1944 ""Army–Navy Screen Magazine"" #20,"
"""Fair and Warmer"" (1915), starring Madge Kennedy (filmed in 1919); ""The Gold Diggers"" (1919), starring Ina Claire (filmed in 1923 as ""The Gold Diggers"", in 1928 as ""Gold Diggers of Broadway"" and also as ""Gold Diggers of 1933""); ""Ladies' Night"", 1920, starring Charlie Ruggles (filmed in 1928); the famous mystery play ""The Bat"" (with Mary Roberts Rinehart), 1920 (filmed in 1926 as ""The Bat"", in 1930 as ""The Bat Whispers,"" and in 1959 as ""The Bat""); ""Getting Gertie's Garter"" (with Wilson Collison), 1921, starring Hazel Dawn (filmed in 1927 and 1945); ""The Demi-Virgin"", 1921, also starring Dawn; ""The Alarm Clock"","
"brother Bud survived her at the time of her death, but died the following year, also at the age of 61. June Collyer June Collyer (born Dorothea Heermance, August 19, 1906 – March 16, 1968) was an American film actress of the 1920s and 1930s. Born in New York City, Collyer chose to use her mother's maiden name when she decided to pursue acting. Her father was Clayton Heermance, an attorney in New York. A debutante chosen by Allan Dwan, Collyer had her first starring role in 1927 when she starred in ""East Side, West Side"". She did a total"