Known For
Acting
Born
Jul 29, 1905
Died
Sep 27, 1965
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Credits
77 titles
Clara Bow
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.
Known For
Filmography
Hodgepodge
Self (archive footage, as Mary Preston)
Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Herself (archive footage)
Sigrid Holmquist
Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
Flappers, Speakeasies, and the Birth of Modern Culture
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Self (archive footage)
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
(archive footage)
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Self (archive footage)
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
Self (archive footage)
The Casting Couch
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
archive footage
The Muppets Go to the Movies
Mary Preston (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hollywood
Self (archive footage, uncredited)
Yesterday and Today
(archive footage)
Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner
Clara Bow
Hoopla
Lou
The Film Parade
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Call Her Savage
Nasa Springer
The House That Shadows Built
(archive footage)
Kick In
Molly Hewes
No Limit
Helen 'Bunny' O'Day
Her Wedding Night
Norma Martin
Love Among the Millionaires
Pepper Whipple
True to the Navy
Ruby Nolan
Paramount on Parade
Herself
The Saturday Night Kid
Mayme Barry
Dangerous Curves
Pat Delaney
The Wild Party
Stella Ames
Three Week Ends
Gladys O'Brien
The Fleet's In
Trixie Deane
Ladies of the Mob
Yvonne
Red Hair
Bubbles McCoy
Get Your Man
Nancy Worthington
Hula
Hula Calhoun
Wings
Mary Preston
Rough House Rosie
Rosie O'Reilly
Children of Divorce
Kitty Flanders
It
Betty Lou Spence
Kid Boots
Clara McCoy
Mantrap
Alverna
The Runaway
Cynthia Meade
Fascinating Youth
Clara Bow
Dancing Mothers
Kittens Westcourt
Two Can Play
Dorothy Hammis
Shadow of the Law
Mary Brophy
The Ancient Mariner
Doris
The Plastic Age
Cynthia Day
My Lady of Whims
Prudence Severn