Clara Bow: Discovering The "It" Girl

A briskly-paced introduction to the whirlwind career and sad personal life of one of the greatest icons of the silent era, the redhead who epitomized flaming youth and was dubbed the "It" girl by contemporary trend-makers. This documentary doesn't delve as deeply into Bow's psychological problems (there was a history of insanity in her family, and she was diagnosed as schizophrenic) as David Stenn's 1988 biography of the troubled star. But it's chock full of footage from her films, including her first picture, 1922's Down to the Sea in Ships, a fleeting moment of nudity from Wings and a bit of sound footage that makes it clear that the actress's notor...