PUBLISHED: Nov 04, 2010
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In 1927, Clara Bow lived at the intersection of talent, youth, beauty, youth and unbelievable, 40,000-fan-letters-a-month fame. By 1933, primitive sound technology, scandal mongers, moguls with an eye to the short haul, and her own mental-emotional fragility, drove Hollywood's original It Girl, in pieces, from the silver screen. She was 28.