"Clara Bow experienced an unprecedented amount of ... "The studios were working her to death. She was on heaps of primitive pills to get her out of bed in the morning and to get her to sleep ...

“The studios were working her to death,” Shepherd told the BBC ... In the first verse, Swift sings, "You look like Clara Bow / In this light, remarkable / All your life, did you know ...

And then, on that hot summer day, Clara was born. “I don’t suppose two people ever looked death in the face more clearly than my mother and I the morning I was born,” Bow wrote many years later.