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“IT” (1927) - 7/20 Stunning Silents

Contrary to common belief, “It” was the biggest crowd drawer of 1927, this was according to a poll of movie palace owners across the country. After running for a record setting eighteen months (thoroughly beating out Gilbert and Garbo’s two month run of “Flesh and the Devil”) ‘It’ became a term of common usage to replace the rather vulgar phrase ‘sex appeal’. Not only this, but Clara herself became the ‘It Girl’ and received a whole train car load of fan mail every week, often simply addressed ’to the It-Girl, Hollywood, USA’. Clara also broke records in the fact that she had four spots in the top ten grossing films of 1927, “Wings”, “It”, “Hula”, and “Children of Divorce”, something never repeated before or since, by any actor, ever.