Name
Clara Bow
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1905-07-29
Deathday
1965-09-27 (60 years old)
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Clara Gordon Bow (July 29, 1905 – September 27, 1965) was an American actress who rose to stardom in silent films 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". Bow came to personify the Roaring Twenties and is described as its leading sex symbol.
Bow appeared in 46 silent films and 11 talkies, including hits such as Mantrap (1926), It (1927), and Wings (1927). She was named first box-office draw in 1928 and 1929 and second box-office draw in 1927 and 1930. Her presence in a motion picture was said to have ensured investors, by odds of almost two-to-one, a "safe return". At the apex of her stardom, she received more than 45,000 fan letters in a single month (January 1929).
Two years after marrying actor Rex Bell in 1931, Bow retired from acting and became a rancher in Nevada. Her final film, Hoop-La, was released in 1933. In September 1965, Bow died of a heart attack at the age of 60.
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- 1927 Wings as Mary Preston
- 1953 Yesterday and Today as (archive footage)
- 1924 This Woman as Aline Sturdevant
- 1929 The Wild Party as Stella Ames
- 1927 It as Betty Lou Spence
- 1926 Mantrap as Alverna
- 1933 Hoopla as Lou
- 1924 Poisoned Paradise as Margot LeBlanc
- 1932 Call Her Savage as Nasa Springer
- 1925 Parisian Love as Marie
- 1931 No Limit as Helen 'Bunny' O'Day
- 1929 Dangerous Curves as Pat Delaney
- 1929 The Saturday Night Kid as Mayme Barry
- 1930 True to the Navy as Ruby Nolan
- 1927 Rough House Rosie as Rosie O'Reilly
- 1930 Love Among the Millionaires as Pepper Whipple
- 1925 Free to Love as Marie Anthony
- 1925 My Lady of Whims as Prudence Severn
- 1925 Capital Punishment as Delia Tate
- 1925 The Plastic Age as Cynthia Day
- 1930 Her Wedding Night as Norma Martin
- 1926 Dancing Mothers as Kittens Westcourt
- 1926 Kid Boots as Clara McCoy
- 1927 Hula as Hula Calhoun
- 1927 Get Your Man as Nancy Worthington
- 1923 Black Oxen as Janet Ogelthorpe
- 1924 Helen's Babies as Alice Mayton
- 1995 Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons as Self (archive footage)
- 1928 Ladies of the Mob as Yvonne
- 1925 The Primrose Path as Marilyn Merrill
- 1926 The Runaway as Cynthia Meade
- 1923 Maytime as Alice Tremaine
- 1924 Daughters of Pleasure as Lila Millas
- 1925 Kiss Me Again as Grizette
- 2002 Edith Head: The Paramount Years as (archive footage)
- 2011 Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films as Herself (archive footage)
- 1924 Black Lightning as Martha Larned
- 1925 The Best Bad Man as Peggy Swain
- 1930 Paramount on Parade as Herself
- 1926 Shadow of the Law as Mary Brophy
- 1928 Red Hair as Bubbles McCoy
- 1928 Three Week Ends as Gladys O'Brien
- 1927 Children of Divorce as Kitty Flanders
- 1931 Kick In as Molly Hewes
- 1925 My Lady's Lips as Vola Lombard
- 1922 Down to the Sea in Ships as 'Dot' Morgan
- 1922 Beyond the Rainbow as Virginia Gardener
- 1928 The Fleet's In as Trixie Deane
- 1926 Fascinating Youth as Clara Bow
- 1926 Two Can Play as Dorothy Hammis
- 1925 The Keeper of the Bees as Lolly Cameron
- 1933 The Film Parade as (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2010 Sigrid Holmquist as Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
- 1925 The Ancient Mariner as Doris
- 1924 Empty Hearts as Rosalie
- 2007 Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema as Self (archive footage)
- 1931 The House That Shadows Built as (archive footage)
- 1923 The Pill Pounder
- 1923 The Daring Years as Mary
- 1924 Grit as Orchid McGonigle
- 1924 Wine as Angela Warriner
- 1925 The Adventurous Sex as The Girl
- 1925 Eve's Lover as Rena D'Arcy
- 1925 The Lawful Cheater as Molly Burns
- 1925 The Scarlet West as Miriam
- 1949 Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner as Clara Bow
- 1923 Enemies of Women as Dancing Girl (uncredited)
- 1999 Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl as Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
- 1923 Enemies of Women as Girl Dancing on Table
- 2025 Hodgepodge as Self (archive footage, as Mary Preston)
- 2010 Flappers, Speakeasies, and the Birth of Modern Culture
- 1988 Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies as (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2012 Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess
- 1986 Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend as archive footage
- 1995 The Casting Couch
- 1995 The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies as Self (archive footage)
- 1981 The Muppets Go to the Movies as Mary Preston (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1980 Hollywood ( 1 episode ) as Self (archive footage, uncredited)
