Hollywood’s original “It Girl” Clara Bow gets ready for a fashionable date, in the 1927 silent romantic comedy “It” .. A defining film for Clara Bow, the film was based on author Elinor Glyn’s concept of “It” .. “That quality possessed by some which draws all others with its magnetic force. With ‘It’ you win all men if you are a woman and all women if you are a man. ‘It’ can be a quality of the mind as well as a physical attraction.” Paramount acquired the rights to Glyn’s story .. modified it f