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Clara Gordon ___MASK30___ ( July 29 , 1905  September 27 , 1965 ) was an American actress who rose to stardom in ___MASK28___ during the 1920s and successfully made the transition to " talkies " after 1927 . Her appearance as a plucky shopgirl in the film " It " brought her global fame and the nickname " The It Girl ". ___MASK30___ came to personify the Roaring Twenties and is described as its leading sex symbol . Elinor Glyn (" née " Sutherland ; 17 ___MASK93___ 1864  23 ___MASK46___ 1943 ) was a British novelist and scriptwriter who specialised in romantic ___MASK95___ that was considered scandalous for its time . She popularized the concept of " It ". Although her works are relatively tame by modern standards , she had tremendous influence on early 20th - century popular culture and perhaps on the careers of notable Hollywood stars such as Rudolph Valentino , Gloria Swanson and Clara ___MASK30___ in particular . Gloria ___MASK20___ Josephine Swanson ( March 27 , 1899  April 4 , 1983 ) was an American actress and producer best known for her role as Norma Desmond , a reclusive ___MASK28___ star , in the critically acclaimed 1950 film " Sunset Boulevard ". Soul Mates is a 1925 silent drama ___MASK99___ directed by Jack Conway , based on the 1911 novel The Reason Why by Elinor Glyn . The movie was the second successful collaboration between Glyn and Conway . Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina d ' Antonguella , professionally known as Rudolph Valentino ( ___MASK20___ 6 , 1895  August 23 , 1926 ), was an Italian actor who starred in several well - known silent films including " The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ," " The Sheik ," " Blood and Sand ," " The Eagle ," and " The Son of the Sheik ." He was an early pop icon , a sex symbol of the 1920s , who was known as the " Latin lover " or simply as " Valentino ". He had applied for American citizenship shortly before his untimely death at age 31 , which caused mass hysteria among his female fans and further propelled him into iconic status . Early life . Childhood . Valentino was born Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaello Guglielmi in Castellaneta , Apulia , Kingdom of Italy . His mother , Marie Berta Gabrielle ( née Barbin ; 1856  1919 ), was French , born in Lure in Franche - Comté . His father , Giovanni Antonio Giuseppe Fedele Guglielmi di Valentina d ' Antonguella , was Italian ; he was a veterinarian who died of malaria when Rodolfo was 11 years of age . Valentino had an older brother , Alberto ( 1892  1981 ), a younger sister , Maria , and an older sister , Beatrice , who had died in infancy .