"She embodied the flapper girl… For the hundreds of thousands ... "If I were to hazard a guess, it's because Clara Bow was both celebrated and condemned in the media in a way that male stars ...

But there’s a lot more to Bow’s dramatic life than bobbed hair and flapper couture. Here are 21 fab facts about one of early cinema’s brightest stars. Clara Bow was a Brooklyn native.

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