Clara Bow, ‘it girl’ of silent cinema to whom Taylor Swift pays tribute in her new album ‘The Tortured Poets Department’

Clara Bow is Taylor Swift’s new inspiration and here we tell you why.

Definitely the hottest thing of the moment is Taylor Swift and the launch of su nuevo disco The Tortured Poets Department, as the long-awaited new double album has turned the world upside down. And it’s no wonder, because us Swifties were counting the days until we could listen to it in full.

And although there is a lot of material to analyze and enjoy on this album, such as the catharsis that Taylor Swift made about her past relationship of six years with the British actor Joe Alwyn, Without a doubt, a part that we are in control of the material is the tribute that the singer paid him in The Tortured Poets Department to one It girl from Hollywood silent films from the 1920s.

Who is Clara Bow, the actress for whom Taylor Swift composed a song on her new album?

Is about Clara Bow, who mentions her in a track which is titled after the actress. The song begins by paying tribute to him in this way: “you look like Clara Bow in this light, remarkable all your life,” also draws parallels between their respective careers. But,who was this woman which is part of the Taylor Swift’s new album track list?

Clara Bow was born in 1905 in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.. It is said that she had a deprived and difficult childhood, as her mother supposedly struggled with her mental health and was later institutionalized, however, Bow sought to open the doors to a better future and He began a career in film in his late teens.

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A misunderstood it girl from silent cinema

The Guardian states that in 1921, Clara was a teenager crazy about movies who dropped out of school after winning a talent detection contest and at that time began writing a story that would be remembered to the present.

Although he had some small participations in silent films, it was not until his role in the film It 1927 when Clara Bow rose to fame and received the apodo de “The It Girl” and it became the flapper archetype.