Clara Bow: Taylor Swift's New Bedford Whaling Museum connection.

Who was Clara Bow?

Clara Bow was a silent film actress in the 1920s who got her big break in Elmer Clifton’s “Down to the Sea in Ships.” She was just 16 years old.

The film tells the love story of a whaling voyage aboard the Charles Morgan. It was filmed in New Bedford and premiered at the Olympia Theater in New Bedford in 1923.

Numerous original images of Clara Bow and her cast mates on set in New Bedford are found in our collections.

Clara Bow is also one of Taylor Swift’s newest songs off her new album Dead Poets Department

: @gillian.catherine @tracireinecker NBWM Development team and Museum Swifties

: Down to the Sea in Ships, 1922, Elmer Clifton, NBWM collections

: It, 1927 Clarence Badger, Josef von Sternberg
: Hoopla, 1933, Frank Lloyd

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