Clara Bow
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jul 29, 1905
- Died
- Sep 27, 1965 (aged 60)
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
- Credits
- 77
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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.
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
2025Movie
Self (archive footage, as Mary Preston)
Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess
2012Movie
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
2011Movie
Herself (archive footage)
Sigrid Holmquist
2010Movie
Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
Flappers, Speakeasies, and the Birth of Modern Culture
2010Movie
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007Movie
Self (archive footage)
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
2002Movie
(archive footage)
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
1999Movie
Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995Movie
Self (archive footage)
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
1995Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Casting Couch
1995Movie
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
1988Movie
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
1986Movie
archive footage
The Muppets Go to the Movies
1981Movie
Mary Preston (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hollywood
1980TV
Self (archive footage, uncredited)
Yesterday and Today
1953Movie
(archive footage)
Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner
1949Movie
Clara Bow
Hoopla
1933Movie
Lou
The Film Parade
1933Movie
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Call Her Savage
1932Movie
Nasa Springer
The House That Shadows Built
1931Movie
(archive footage)
Kick In
1931Movie
Molly Hewes
No Limit
1931Movie
Helen 'Bunny' O'Day
Her Wedding Night
1930Movie
Norma Martin
Love Among the Millionaires
1930Movie
Pepper Whipple
True to the Navy
1930Movie
Ruby Nolan
Paramount on Parade
1930Movie
Herself
The Saturday Night Kid
1929Movie
Mayme Barry
Dangerous Curves
1929Movie
Pat Delaney
The Wild Party
1929Movie
Stella Ames
Three Week Ends
1928Movie
Gladys O'Brien
The Fleet's In
1928Movie
Trixie Deane
Ladies of the Mob
1928Movie
Yvonne
Red Hair
1928Movie
Bubbles McCoy
Get Your Man
1927Movie
Nancy Worthington
Hula
1927Movie
Hula Calhoun
Wings
1927Movie
Mary Preston
Rough House Rosie
1927Movie
Rosie O'Reilly
Children of Divorce
1927Movie
Kitty Flanders
It
1927Movie
Betty Lou Spence
Kid Boots
1926Movie
Clara McCoy
Mantrap
1926Movie
Alverna
The Runaway
1926Movie
Cynthia Meade
Fascinating Youth
1926Movie
Clara Bow
Dancing Mothers
1926Movie
Kittens Westcourt
Two Can Play
1926Movie
Dorothy Hammis
Shadow of the Law
1926Movie
Mary Brophy
The Ancient Mariner
1925Movie
Doris
The Plastic Age
1925Movie
Cynthia Day
My Lady of Whims
1925Movie
Prudence Severn
The Best Bad Man
1925Movie
Peggy Swain
Free to Love
1925Movie
Marie Anthony
The Primrose Path
1925Movie
Marilyn Merrill
The Keeper of the Bees
1925Movie
Lolly Cameron
Parisian Love
1925Movie
Marie
Kiss Me Again
1925Movie
Grizette
The Scarlet West
1925Movie
Miriam
The Lawful Cheater
1925Movie
Molly Burns
Eve's Lover
1925Movie
Rena D'Arcy
My Lady's Lips
1925Movie
Vola Lombard
The Adventurous Sex
1925Movie
The Girl
Capital Punishment
1925Movie
Delia Tate
Black Lightning
1924Movie
Martha Larned
This Woman
1924Movie
Aline Sturdevant
Helen's Babies
1924Movie
Alice Mayton
Empty Hearts
1924Movie
Rosalie
Wine
1924Movie
Angela Warriner
Daughters of Pleasure
1924Movie
Lila Millas
Poisoned Paradise
1924Movie
Margot LeBlanc
Grit
1924Movie
Orchid McGonigle
Black Oxen
1923Movie
Janet Ogelthorpe
Maytime
1923Movie
Alice Tremaine
The Daring Years
1923Movie
Mary
The Pill Pounder
1923Movie
Enemies of Women
1923Movie
Dancing Girl (uncredited), Girl Dancing on Table
Down to the Sea in Ships
1922Movie
'Dot' Morgan
Beyond the Rainbow
1922Movie
Virginia Gardener