Who is Clara 屈服する? The forgotten 1920s icon who was the 初めの 'It Girl' and Hollywood 星／主役にする who Taylor Swift has channeled for the 拷問d Poets Department?

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As Taylor Swift finally 解放（する）d the?高度に-心配するd album?The 拷問d Poets Department today, fans are once again 推測するing about the woman who may be her muse.

Clara 屈服する was a?silent movie actress who began working in Hollywood in the Roaring Twenties, and as one of the most prolific 'flapper girls' of the time, she was known?for her lifestyle of debauchery, alcoholism and wild partying.

Swifties are 推測するing that the the pop sensation's album has been 奮起させるd by her, in part at least, as the 16th song from The 拷問d Poets Department is 指名するd after the Hollywood beauty.?

屈服する went on to become?the most famous woman of her 世代 thanks to her stellar 事実上の／代理 talent and 劇の personal life - not dissimilar to Swift, whose critics 告発する／非難する the 星／主役にする of?てこ入れ／借入資本ing her prolific love life for personal 伸び（る）.

Lyrics from the first 詩（を作る） of Clara 屈服する read: 'You look like Clara 屈服する in this light, remarkable. All your life, did you know you'd be 選ぶd like a rose?'

Here, FEMAIL takes a look at the 悪名高い 1920s It Girl who is thought to 奮起させる the world's biggest pop 星／主役にする...

Taylor's Lavender 煙霧 music ビデオ (権利) appears to recreate a scene of Clara 屈服する's (left in 1925)

Taylor Sw ift fans 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑う that the singer is in awe of Clara 屈服する, even 指名するing the sixteenth song on her album after her

Taylor's new album The 拷問d Poets Department, features at 跡をつける called 'Clara 屈服する'

Clara 屈服する?starring in 1932 movie Call Her Savage. She is the 支配する of a new Taylor Swift song

Fans believe Taylor has been leaving 復活祭 Eggs to dress like Clara (left in 1925, Taylor is 権利 at the Grammy's)

屈服する was remembered for her troubled and glamorous life as a シャンペン酒-soaked jazz baby who?was born into poverty in 1906.

The Brooklyn-born actress overcame and abusive 世帯 to become a 大規模な movie 星／主役にする in Hollywood's golden - if not わずかに hedonistic - 時代.

There have been many pop culture 言及／関連s to her throug hout time.

Margot Robbie's Babylon character is based on her, while Prince also について言及するs her in a song.

But perhaps the most famed part of her 遺産／遺物 is Betty Boop. She is 特記する／引用するd as the inspiration for the sexed-up 風刺漫画 character.

In fact not only was she an It-Girl, she coined the 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語.

In 1927, she starred in a film called It, playing a 勇敢な shopgirl called Betty Lou Spence.

As a result, she 伸び（る）d the 愛称 'It Girl' which has been used for a century since.

< p class="imageCaption">Taylor seemingly recreated many of Clara's looks over the years. 権利 in the?Bejeweled music ビデオ

Clara 屈服する relaxes on the beach with a dog

Clara was in dozens of films over the years

While Taylor grew up very different to Clara, the pair certainly have similarities.

Just like Taylor, Clara was long 支配する to bisexual rumours, the most famous woman of her 世代.

Clara was also （刑事）被告 of spreading venereal 病気, bestiality and incest. The （人命などを）奪う，主張するs were unfounded.

Fans have 推測するd Taylor might be recreating Clara's looks, with uncanny 味方する-by-味方する 発射s of the pair.

Incredibly, Clara's Hollywood Walk of Fame 星／主役にする is 位置を示すd on the corner of Sunset and Vine in LA, a place Swift 言及／関連's on her 跡をつける Gorgeous from her album 評判.?

Yet there's little 疑問 that, for all her on-審査する 技術, the story of Clara's life will also be 大部分は remembered as a 悲劇. Indeed, she 結局 fell from grace in a みごたえのある fashion.

And her 信任状 certainly 競争相手 any modern wild child.?

She was more brazen than her fellow silent movie 星／主役にするs, and was known for 押し進めるing 境界s and taking gender 非，不，無-適合するing 役割s, something Taylor herself has discussed.

'She wasn't 井戸／弁護士席 liked amongst other women in the film 植民地,' fellow actress Lina Basquette told the 後見人.?

'Her social presence was タブー, and it was rather silly, because God knows Marion Davies and Mary Pickford had plenty to hide. It's just that they hid it, and Clara didn't.?

Engaged no いっそう少なく than six times, she became one of the biggest film 星／主役にするs of her time, so popular that at her 高さ she received 45,000 fan letters in a 選び出す／独身 month.?

Indeed, American ギャング（個々） Al Capone 特記する／引用するd her as his favourite actress. When she visited Berlin in the 1930s, Hitler too 宣言するd himself an admirer and gave her a copy of Mein Kampf.

In 2022, her grandson Dr Michael Bell, a dentist in Las Vegas, told the Mail he hopes she will be remembered for her talent: 'My dad always said his mother was the greatest actress in the world, and if you look at any of her films now, you can see how she was able to 事業／計画（する） an amazing 範囲 of emotions on 審査する.'

Sadly, her childhood was 示すd by poverty, mental illness and 性の 暴力／激しさ.?

'Clara's childhood was one of extreme 外傷／ショック,' says Seattle-based film historian Jeff Crouse, who has 熟考する／考慮するd the 'It-girl's life story extensively 以前 told the Mail.?

'The person she loved most ― h er grandfather ― dropped dead in 前線 of her.?

'A childhood friend who lived in the same building 燃やすd to death in a 世帯 事故.?

'Clara heard his 叫び声をあげるs and tried to put out the 炎上s by rolling him in a rug, but he died in her 武器.

'Her mother Sarah was mentally ill and resented her daughter.?

Clara is pictured in?The Wild Party a 1929 film

Clara 屈服する (1905-1965) wearing a fur coat, for Paramo unt Pictures, 1928

'Clara once woke to find her mother standing over her with a butcher's knife at her throat.?

'Her father Robert, who was a violent いじめ（る）, （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 and 強姦d her.'

In 1921, 老年の 16, she entered a talent 競争 in the hope of becoming a film 星／主役にする.?

That way, she rationalised, she would get the love and attention she craved.?

She won and made it to Hollywood two years later, when she （機の）カム to the attention of Ben Schulberg, an 独立した・無所属 filmmaker who rose to become 長，率いる of 生産／産物 at 最高位の Studios.

He put Clara in 攻撃する，衝突する films such as Wings, where two World War I 操縦するs 争う for her love, and which went on to 勝利，勝つ the first 学院 Award for Best Picture, in 1929.

However, Schulberg also rented out his talented young 星／主役にする to other studios at $3,000 a week ― but paid her only $750, with 特別手当s 扶養家族 on her good behaviour.?

In a 選び出す／独身 12-month period, she appeared in 14 films, one of the most overworked and underpaid 星／主役にするs.

But while her fame grew, her bawdy nature and 疑わしい manners remained 不変の.?

Forthright about her sexuality and contemptuous of Hollywood's unwritten code of 行為／行う that you could do whatever you 手配中の，お尋ね者 as long as it was kept behind の近くにd doors, Clara's 反抗的な nature shocked people and she 結局 became persona 非，不，無 grata の中で the staid 設立.?

Clara 屈服する (1905 - 1965) and her husband, actor Rex Bell (1903 - 1962) arrive in Southampton from America

Clara starred opposite fiance?Gilbert Roland in 1932

Clara 屈服する as Nasa Springer and Gilbert Roland as Moonglow in the 1932 film Call Her Savage. The pair were later engaged?

From left to 権利, actors Charles Ruggles, Clara 屈服する (1905 - 1965), her husband Rex Bell and Toby Wing at 屈服する and Bell's new cafe, the 'It' Cafe, in Hollywood

Clara やめる Hollywood and had two children, George and Tom?

Margot Robbie's character, Nellie LaRoy, an unhinged and 条約-侮辱する／軽蔑するing starlet, is 大部分は based on the scandalous Clara, Hollywood's 初めの It-girl and the first sex symbol of the silver 審査する's silent 時代

'Clara stayed very much her own woman when she got to Hollywood. Like many big movie 星／主役にするs, she （機の）カム from humble beginnings, but never sought to hide her dysfunctional background,' says Crouse.

'In Hollywood in the 1920s, there was a lot of money sloshing around.?

'There were parties every night and people had luxurious li festyles. She was the embodiment of that age. Clara was so young, so bold and so energetic that she left all other actresses in her wake.

'She was 解放する／自由な-spirited and loved sex. Men would 落ちる at her feet, and she had 事件／事情／状勢s with some of Hollywood's most 望ましい men such as actors Gilbert Roland, Gary Cooper and film director 勝利者 Fleming.'

By 1929, にもかかわらず having had 多重の 約束／交戦s, Clara still couldn't commit.

'I really don't care about men,' she said nonchalantly.?

'Each one's got one thing that 控訴，上告s to me but 非，不，無 of them's got the combination.'

Crouse believes Clara's 早期に 外傷／ショック in childhood and then-undiagnosed mental illness explains some of her wild behaviour.?

When she was 招待するd to dine at the elegant Beverly Hills Hotel by director Frank Tuttle, she turned up late and tipsy and dressed only in a bathing 衣装. She told dirty jokes at the （米）棚上げする／（英）提議する, to the horror of other guests.

A 正規の／正選手 at the famous Garden of Allah hotel in West Hollywood, which was patronised by 星／主役にするs, she would 押し進める tuxedo-覆う？ men into the swimming pool and jump off the 飛び込み board in an evening gown, with a martini in 手渡す.

Clara 屈服する wears a feather boa and a 明らかにする／漏らすing backless dress in IT in 1927

She appeared in 58 films, (おもに silent) between 1922-1933, She was probably the most overworked and underpaid 星／主役にする ever

Clara was an icon of the sile nt 時代 but struggled in the 'talkies'

The 産業 turned against her, yet she was still worked to the bone by 最高位の.?

Elaine Shepherd, who produced a BBC4 文書の on 屈服する in 2012, 公式文書，認めるd how Hollywood had taken its （死傷者）数 on the 星／主役にする.

'The studios were working her to death,' she told the BBC , 'She was on heaps of 原始の pills to get her out of bed in the morning and to get her to sleep at night. (n)役員／(a)執行力のあるs were trying to 偉業／利用する her as much as possible, gossip magazines were 令状ing the most awful lies about her, and she was 取引，協定ing with all that on her own, as a woman in her twenties.'

'She just 設立する it way too stressful,' Shepherd continued. 'But it's not true that she was thrown out of Hollywood. When sound （機の）カム in, she was paid 大規模な 量s of money to make a couple of talkies, and if she'd had more support 早期に on, she could have carried on having a 相当な career.'

The fact that her father and other 親族s (her mother, who had been 診断するd with schizophrenia and epilepsy, had died at the age of 43) had followed her to Hollywood, 推定する／予想するing her to support them, only piled on the 圧力.

Scurrilous rumours began to 循環させる about her behaviour, 含むing one 告訴，告発 that she had slept with the whole of the University of Southern California football team, 含むing Marion Morrison, who later became the actor John Wayne.

'It wasn't true,' says Crouse.?

'She liked men and liked to hang out with men. Girls had been mean to her when she was at school because of her worn 着せる／賦与するs and red hair, and she grew up a tomboy. But it showed the Hollywood 設立 didn't like her and felt 脅すd by her. She created enemies.'

Perhaps unsurprisingly, in 1930, Clara had a 決裂／故障 and went into a sanatorium where she had electric shock therapy for '粉々にするd 神経s'.

Another 脅し was ぼんやり現れるing ―three years earlier, Al Jolson had starred in The Jazz Singer, the first film with synchronised speech.

The incredible glamour seems to have 奮起させるd Taylor Swift

A portrait of actress Clara 屈服する (1905-1965) reclining on a pile of pillows, for 最高位の Pictures, 1929

Clara 屈服する sports a metallic bandeau dress while she seductively glares at the camera

It 示すd the end of the silent-film 時代. 最高位の resisted the new 科学（工学）技術 at first, thinking it wa s a fad. But when they did start making talkies, they threw their biggest 星／主役にする to the wolves.

The studio failed to train Clara for this new 方式 of film, and she burst into 涙／ほころびs when she heard her nasal, Brooklyn accent 記録，記録的な／記録するd for the first time.?

'How can I be in pictures with a 発言する／表明する like that?' she sobbed. She 苦しむd from 'mic fright', and struggled to learn lines of 対話.

その上の anguish 続いて起こるd when she took her personal 長官, a former studio hairdresser called Daisy De Voe who managed her 財政／金融s, to 法廷，裁判所 on 使い込み，横領 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金s.?

The move backfired when it was 明らかにする／漏らすd that Clara had spent $350,000 ― the 同等（の） of about $5 million dollars today ― on 着せる／賦与するing, cars, 賭事ing and other extravagances.?

Her fans, struggling to make ends 会合，会う after the 広大な／多数の／重要な 不景気, began to turn on their favourite.

A saviour seemed to come in the form of George Beldam, a handsome actor and former cowboy who was more than 6 ft tall, with blond hair and blue 注目する，もくろむs.?

Later, he changed his 指名する to Rex Bell and 行為／法令／行動するd in Westerns.

He romanced Clara and 公約するd to take the struggling 星／主役にする away from Hollywood.

They married in 1931 and lived in Nevada, 購入（する）ing the Walking Box ranch with more than 400,000 acres of land.

Clara chose to leave Hollywood, retiring at the tender age of 28, and went on to have two sons, Rex and George. However, the move did not bring her peace.?

Indeed, Clara's lifelong insomnia より悪くするd: she slept fitfully all day and was awake all night, hours which 衝突／不一致d with those of her husband, who had a ranch to run.

The couple's marriage 悪化するd. Housekeeper Marge Marshall 述べるd an 出来事/事件 when Clara was having a bad day and 投げ上げる／ボディチェックするing and turning in her bed. When two cowboys knocked on the door, she quickly got dressed, 直す／買収する，八百長をするd her hair and make-up and 急ぐd downstairs to entertain them.

She 試みる／企てるd 自殺 in 1944, 消費するing a 瓶／封じ込める of pills, and was 生き返らせるd only after her young sons 設立する her. Her mental illness より悪くするd and Clara's husband began to distance himself and had 事件／事情／状勢s, which his anguished wife knew about.

The family moved to Las Vegas ― but their 関係 was beyond 修理.

In 1949, after another （一定の）期間 in a sanatorium where Clara received more shock 治療s and was 診断するd with schizophrenia ― with symptoms that were said to 含む 不適切な behaviour and poor judgment ― she checked herself out of 治療 and moved 支援する alone to Los Angeles.

Dr Bell was 可決する・採択するd by Clara's son, Rex, but never met his grandmother because she died before he （機の）カム into the family. 'She was a party girl in her 青年 but became a 壊れやすい person because she had these underlying mental health 問題／発行するs,' he says.

'She went through hard times and was 支配するd to a lot of 消極的な publicity, so she decided to retire from it all. I 設立する that admirable.

'I'd liked to have known her, but I grew up in a house filled with her photographs and awards. I'm certainly proud of her.'

Clara's husband Rex ― they never 離婚d ― died of a heart attack at the age of 58 in 1962 while he was （選挙などの）運動をするing for the 知事／長官の職 of Nevada.

The couple's son Rex Jnr, a former 治安判事 and 検察官 in Las Vegas, died in 2011. Their other son George, 老年の 84, still lives in Las Vegas.

Clara ended her days living alone in a bungalow in Los Angeles, except for the company of a nurse, and died of a heart attack at the age of 60, in 1965, while watching an old 黒人／ボイコット and white film starring one of her former lovers, Gary Cooper.

'She was sexually promiscuous and had trouble making the 移行 to talkies, but she was also vivacious and talented and 勇敢に立ち向かう,' says Crouse.

'She couldn't come to 条件 with the terrible 損失 she 苦しむd from 存在 強姦d by her father. She was never able to 直面する that 外傷／ショック and many people think that was the source of her lifelong insomnia.'

In a 最近の interview about Babylon, Margot Robbie, the actress taking on Clara's mantle, said: 'Whenever I'm trying to make a character, I have to 人物／姿／数字 out their childhood. I can 正当化する anything they do later in life if I just 人物／姿／数字 that out.'She probably had the most horrific childhood I can imagine for anyone. You can 正当化する anything [she] does and says in this movie if you imagine she experienced something like that as a kid.'?