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DougVieyra · 12-19-2013, 04:44 PM

Tudortomnz-
"Janet Gaynor- the 'It Girl' of 1928!
This photo bugged me for years ; who was she & what was she doing on the Detroit assembly line ?"
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Clara Bow was the original 'IT' Girl. So dubbed from her starring role in the 1927 Silent Movie "The IT Girl". The next year she starred, along with Buddy Rogers, in the 1928 Block Buster "WINGS', which won BEST PICTURE in the first year of the Academy Awards. Clara Bow was a TOP star during the late twenties, along with another great actress of the Silent Screen, Janet Gaynor. Both of these two great Silent Movie stars (along with a great many others) slowly declined with the advent of TALKING PICTURES, ushered in by Warner Brother's first talkie, THE JAZZ SINGER, with Al Jolson, released in 1928. Talkies made the transition during 1929 and dominated by 1930.

Henry Ford was well-recognized as one of the first automobile companies to squeeze as much FREE publicity as possible out of the national media. One way to do that was to get the icons of the time - Movie Stars - to endorse his NEW FORD. And he was superb at it.

12-19-2013, 04:44 PM	#32
DougVieyra Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Eureka, California Posts: 1,733	Re: Celebrity Owners of the New Ford Tudortomnz- "Janet Gaynor- the 'It Girl' of 1928! This photo bugged me for years ; who was she & what was she doing on the Detroit assembly line ?" __________________________________________________ ______ Clara Bow was the original 'IT' Girl. So dubbed from her starring role in the 1927 Silent Movie "The IT Girl". The next year she starred, along with Buddy Rogers, in the 1928 Block Buster "WINGS', which won BEST PICTURE in the first year of the Academy Awards. Clara Bow was a TOP star during the late twenties, along with another great actress of the Silent Screen, Janet Gaynor. Both of these two great Silent Movie stars (along with a great many others) slowly declined with the advent of TALKING PICTURES, ushered in by Warner Brother's first talkie, THE JAZZ SINGER, with Al Jolson, released in 1928. Talkies made the transition during 1929 and dominated by 1930. Henry Ford was well-recognized as one of the first automobile companies to squeeze as much FREE publicity as possible out of the national media. One way to do that was to get the icons of the time - Movie Stars - to endorse his NEW FORD. And he was superb at it.