[Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "It GIrl"

Tue Jul 30 01:07:00 UTC 2024

Nice work, Fred. Here is an incremental antedating.

Date: March 20, 1927
Newspaper: The Detroit News
Newspaper Location: Detroit, Michigan
Article: (Advertisement for movie "Children of Divorce")
Section: Metropolitan, Quote Page 14, Column ??
Database: GenealogyBank

[Begin excerpt]
Clara Bow and Esther Ralston in "Children of Divorce"
Clara Bow, the "It" girl, in a role that snaps and sparks!
[End excerpt]

Garson

On Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 7:17 PM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
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> it girl (OED 1927 May 29)
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> 1927 Globe (Toronto) 31 Mar. 2 (ProQuest)
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> The "IT" Girl Is Back  CLARA BOW in a Sensational Drams of Modern Marriage.
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> Fred Shapiro
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