Clara Bow
69 movies
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jul 29, 1905
- Died
- Sep 27, 1965 (age 60)
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
- Also known as
- Clara Gordon Bow · The 'It' Girl
Biography
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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.
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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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Known for
Clara Bow: movies and TV shows
Acting (69)
- 2012
- 2010 Sigrid Holmquist
as Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
- 2010
- 2002 Edith Head: The Paramount Years
as (archive footage)
- 1995
- 1988 Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1986 Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
as archive footage
- 1981 The Muppets Go to the Movies
as Mary Preston (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1953 Yesterday and Today
as (archive footage)
- 1949 Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner
as Clara Bow
- 1933 Hoopla
as Lou
- 1933 The Film Parade
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1932 Call Her Savage
as Nasa Springer
- 1931 The House That Shadows Built
as (archive footage)
- 1931 Kick In
as Molly Hewes
- 1931 No Limit
as Helen 'Bunny' O'Day
- 1930 Her Wedding Night
as Norma Martin
- 1930 Love Among the Millionaires
as Pepper Whipple
- 1930 True to the Navy
as Ruby Nolan
- 1929 The Saturday Night Kid
as Mayme Barry
- 1929 Dangerous Curves
as Pat Delaney
- 1929 The Wild Party
as Stella Ames
- 1928 Three Week Ends
as Gladys O'Brien
- 1928 The Fleet's In
as Trixie Deane
- 1928 Ladies of the Mob
as Yvonne
- 1928 Red Hair
as Bubbles McCoy
- 1927 Get Your Man
as Nancy Worthington
- 1927 Hula
as Hula Calhoun
- 1927 Wings
as Mary Preston
- 1927 Rough House Rosie
as Rosie O'Reilly
- 1927 Children of Divorce
as Kitty Flanders
- 1927 It
as Betty Lou Spence
- 1926 Kid Boots
as Clara McCoy
- 1926 Mantrap
as Alverna
- 1926 The Runaway
as Cynthia Meade
- 1926 Fascinating Youth
as Clara Bow
- 1926 Dancing Mothers
as Kittens Westcourt
- 1926 Two Can Play
as Dorothy Hammis
- 1926 Shadow of the Law
as Mary Brophy
- 1925 The Ancient Mariner
as Doris
- 1925 The Plastic Age
as Cynthia Day
- 1925 My Lady of Whims
as Prudence Severn
- 1925 The Best Bad Man
as Peggy Swain
- 1925 Free to Love
as Marie Anthony
- 1925 The Primrose Path
as Marilyn Merrill
- 1925 The Keeper of the Bees
as Lolly Cameron
- 1925 Parisian Love
as Marie
- 1925 Kiss Me Again
as Grizette
- 1925 The Scarlet West
as Miriam
- 1925 The Lawful Cheater
as Molly Burns
- 1925 Eve's Lover
as Rena D'Arcy
- 1925 My Lady's Lips
as Vola Lombard
- 1925 The Adventurous Sex
as The Girl
- 1925 Capital Punishment
as Delia Tate
- 1924 Black Lightning
as Martha Larned
- 1924 This Woman
as Aline Sturdevant
- 1924 Helen's Babies
as Alice Mayton
- 1924 Empty Hearts
as Rosalie
- 1924 Wine
as Angela Warriner
- 1924 Daughters of Pleasure
as Lila Millas
- 1924 Poisoned Paradise
as Margot LeBlanc
- 1924 Grit
as Orchid McGonigle
- 1923 Black Oxen
as Janet Ogelthorpe
- 1923 Maytime
as Alice Tremaine
- 1923 The Daring Years
as Mary
- 1923
- 1923 Enemies of Women
as Dancing Girl (uncredited) / Girl Dancing on Table
- 1922 Down to the Sea in Ships
as 'Dot' Morgan
- 1922 Beyond the Rainbow
as Virginia Gardener
Talk shows and appearances (8)
- 2025
- 2011
- 2007
- 1999
- 1995
- 1995
- 1980 Hollywood
1 episode
- 1930