Retro Snap: This Was The Most Famous Movie Star In America

You know her, right?

Maybe not. It’s Clara Bow, and she was the most famous movie star in America in 1927 (when she was 24). But what I always think is neat about her is that she doesn’t look like one of those silent movie stars who is clearly a silent movie star – even though she defined the notion of the “it girl.” She always looks as though she could easily have been a star in the 60′s or 70′s or right now. I mean, if she let her eyebrows grow back. Because that is the major way that we have evolved in a century.