So what is "It"? "It
that strange magnetism which attracts both sexes
entirely unself-conscious
full of self-confidence
indifferent to the effect
she is producing and uninfluenced by others." The film begins with a Cosmo extract of a novella by Elinor Glyn, and picks up speed with a newspaper story by an uncredited, luminous Gary Cooper. So it is about writing, but ultimately about the stunning comedic talent of Clara Bow and the anthropologic eye of Clarence Badger, Josef von Sternberg (uncredited) and H. Kinley Martin. Macy's (Waltham's), Coney Island & a 1920's steam-powered yacht.
Clara Bow acts with subtlety, light élan and small, powerful gestures that would set the choreography for women in film for the next century. Don't miss the original. Her final scene on the yacht's anchor with Antonio Moreno is the funniest, sexiest, most artful thing I've seen since I don't know when.
Pity the people who won't hear Maud Nelissen's piano composition behind this brilliant film.
Clara Bow acts with subtlety, light élan and small, powerful gestures that would set the choreography for women in film for the next century. Don't miss the original. Her final scene on the yacht's anchor with Antonio Moreno is the funniest, sexiest, most artful thing I've seen since I don't know when.
Pity the people who won't hear Maud Nelissen's piano composition behind this brilliant film.