Clara Bow
Known for Acting · 75 credits
- Born
- 1905-07-29
- Died
- 1965-09-27
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
- Also known as
- Clara Gordon Bow · The 'It' Girl
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
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
1995
as Self (archive footage)
Wings
1927
as Mary Preston
The Plastic Age
1925
as Cynthia Day
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
1999
as Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007
as Self (archive footage)
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
2011
as Herself (archive footage)
Movies (75)
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
1995
as Self (archive footage)
Wings
1927
as Mary Preston
The Plastic Age
1925
as Cynthia Day
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
1999
as Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007
as Self (archive footage)
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
2011
as Herself (archive footage)
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
2002
as (archive footage)
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
1986
as archive footage
Call Her Savage
1932
as Nasa Springer
Red Hair
1928
as Bubbles McCoy
Mantrap
1926
as Alverna
No Limit
1931
as Helen 'Bunny' O'Day
Kid Boots
1926
as Clara McCoy
Hula
1927
as Hula Calhoun
It
1927
as Betty Lou Spence
Dangerous Curves
1929
as Pat Delaney
Sigrid Holmquist
2010
as Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
Fascinating Youth
1926
as Clara Bow
The Scarlet West
1925
as Miriam
Children of Divorce
1927
as Kitty Flanders
The Wild Party
1929
as Stella Ames
The Saturday Night Kid
1929
as Mayme Barry
Wine
1924
as Angela Warriner
Helen's Babies
1924
as Alice Mayton
Hodgepodge
2025
as Self (archive footage, as Mary Preston)
The Best Bad Man
1925
as Peggy Swain
The Daring Years
1923
as Mary
The Casting Couch
1995
Kick In
1931
as Molly Hewes
Get Your Man
1927
as Nancy Worthington
Parisian Love
1925
as Marie
My Lady of Whims
1925
as Prudence Severn
The Runaway
1926
as Cynthia Meade
The Film Parade
1933
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Free to Love
1925
as Marie Anthony
Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner
1949
as Clara Bow
This Woman
1924
as Aline Sturdevant
Yesterday and Today
1953
as (archive footage)
Grit
1924
as Orchid McGonigle
Eve's Lover
1925
as Rena D'Arcy
Capital Punishment
1925
as Delia Tate
Ladies of the Mob
1928
as Yvonne
The Adventurous Sex
1925
as The Girl
The House That Shadows Built
1931
as (archive footage)
True to the Navy
1930
as Ruby Nolan
The Primrose Path
1925
as Marilyn Merrill
Empty Hearts
1924
as Rosalie
Maytime
1923
as Alice Tremaine
Enemies of Women
1923
as Dancing Girl (uncredited) / Girl Dancing on Table
The Lawful Cheater
1925
as Molly Burns
Her Wedding Night
1930
as Norma Martin
Beyond the Rainbow
1922
as Virginia Gardener
Dancing Mothers
1926
as Kittens Westcourt
Daughters of Pleasure
1924
as Lila Millas
Love Among the Millionaires
1930
as Pepper Whipple
My Lady's Lips
1925
as Lola Lombard
The Fleet's In
1928
as Trixie Deane
Hoopla
1933
as Lou
Three Week Ends
1928
as Gladys O'Brien
Rough House Rosie
1927
as Rosie O'Reilly
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
1988
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Ancient Mariner
1925
as Doris
Shadow of the Law
1926
as Mary Brophy
Poisoned Paradise
1924
as Margot LeBlanc
Black Oxen
1923
as Janet Ogelthorpe
100 Years at the Movies
1994
Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess
2012
Paramount on Parade
1930
as Herself
Down to the Sea in Ships
1922
as 'Dot' Morgan
Black Lightning
1924
as Martha Larned
The Keeper of the Bees
1925
as Lolly Cameron
Kiss Me Again
1925
as Grizette
Two Can Play
1926
as Dorothy Hammis
The Pill Pounder
1923
Flappers, Speakeasies, and the Birth of Modern Culture
2010
About Clara Bow
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… With 75 credits spanning from 1922 to 2025, Clara Bow has appeared in 75 films and 0 TV shows.
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- Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons (1995) — as Self (archive footage)
- Wings (1927) — as Mary Preston
- The Plastic Age (1925) — as Cynthia Day
- Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl (1999) — as Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
- Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007) — as Self (archive footage)
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