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Letter: The beginnings of It
From: The Independent - London
Date: 20000503
Author:Michael Kilgarriff
Sir: It is true that Clara Bow was the original It Girl, but Elinor Glyn, on whose novel the 1927 Paramount film was based, stated that by "It" she did not imply carnal allure but "a magnetic quality of the spirit".
MICHAEL KILGARRIFF
London W5
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