Mantrap is a 1926 American silent comedy film based on the novel of the same name by Sinclair Lewis. Mantrap stars Clara Bow, Percy Marmont, Ernest Torrence, Ford Sterling, and Eugene Pallette, and was directed by Victor Fleming.
Mantrap (1926 film)
Left to right: Ernest Torrence, Clara Bow, and Percy Marmont
Mantrap ad in Motion Picture News, 1926
Clara Gordon Bow was an American actress who rose to stardom during the silent film era of the 1920s and successfully made the transition to "talkies" in 1929. Her appearance as a plucky shopgirl in the film It brought her global fame and the nickname "The It Girl". Bow came to personify the Roaring Twenties and is described as its leading sex symbol.
Bow in 1932
Bay Ridge High, in a 1920 postcard
"Fame and Fortune" contest form
Bow undercover in Down to the Sea in Ships, 1922