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It is a 1927 American silent romantic comedy directed by Clarence Badger, starring Clara Bow as a department store shopgirl who pursues her wealthy employer using an indefinable personal magnetism the film calls It, a concept popularized in a contemporary novella by Elinor Glyn, who appears briefly in the film. The film's enormous popularity made Bow one of the biggest stars of the late silent era and permanently attached the nickname the It Girl to her public image. It is widely cited by film historians as the defining vehicle of Bow's stardom and an important document of 1920s American ideas about sex appeal and modern femininity.

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1927 1
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United States 1
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English 1
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1. It (1927 film) (Wikipedia)
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    It is a 1927 American silent film directed by Clarence G. Badger, and starring Clara Bow.
  • Lead sentence, original language
    It is a 1927 American silent film directed by Clarence G. Badger, and starring Clara Bow.
  • In Medium: Film, Article lead sentence
    It (stylized in quotation marks) is a 1927 American silent film directed by Clarence G.
  • Created By: Clarence Badger, Article lead sentence
    It (stylized in quotation marks) is a 1927 American silent film directed by Clarence G. Badger, and starring Clara Bow.
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