Clara Bow
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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
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Self (archive footage)
It
Betty Lou Spence
Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess
Children of Divorce
Kitty Flanders
Black Lightning
Martha Larned
Wings
Mary Preston
The Best Bad Man
Peggy Swain
The Saturday Night Kid
Mayme Barry
Grit
Orchid McGonigle
Dancing Mothers
Kittens Westcourt
Capital Punishment
Delia Tate
Parisian Love
Marie
Kiss Me Again
Grizette
True to the Navy
Ruby Nolan
Hoopla
Lou
Red Hair
Bubbles McCoy
Three Week Ends
Gladys O'Brien
Kick In
Molly Hewes
Empty Hearts
Rosalie
Maytime
Alice Tremaine
Dangerous Curves
Pat Delaney
Hula
Hula Calhoun
Paramount on Parade
Herself
The Primrose Path
Marilyn Merrill
Mantrap
Alverna
Kid Boots
Clara McCoy
Black Oxen
Janet Ogelthorpe
Free to Love
Marie Anthony
100 Years at the Movies
The Scarlet West
Miriam
My Lady of Whims
Prudence Severn
Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Herself (archive footage)
The Film Parade
(archive footage) (uncredited)
The House That Shadows Built
(archive footage)
Love Among the Millionaires
Pepper Whipple
The Lawful Cheater
Molly Burns
Rough House Rosie
Rosie O'Reilly
The Fleet's In
Trixie Deane
The Plastic Age
Cynthia Day
Wine
Angela Warriner
The Wild Party
Stella Ames
Beyond the Rainbow
Virginia Gardener
Her Wedding Night
Norma Martin
Get Your Man
Nancy Worthington
My Lady's Lips
Lola Lombard
Call Her Savage
Nasa Springer
The Daring Years
Mary
Ladies of the Mob
Yvonne
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
Self (archive footage)
Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner
Clara Bow
Fascinating Youth
Clara Bow
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
(archive footage)
Hodgepodge
Self (archive footage, as Mary Preston)
Flappers, Speakeasies, and the Birth of Modern Culture
Daughters of Pleasure
Lila Millas
The Adventurous Sex
The Girl
Helen's Babies
Alice Mayton
This Woman
Aline Sturdevant
Poisoned Paradise
Margot LeBlanc
Enemies of Women
Dancing Girl (uncredited)
Enemies of Women
Girl Dancing on Table
Sigrid Holmquist
Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
Two Can Play
Dorothy Hammis
No Limit
Helen 'Bunny' O'Day
The Keeper of the Bees
Lolly Cameron
Shadow of the Law
Mary Brophy
Yesterday and Today
(archive footage)
The Pill Pounder
Eve's Lover
Rena D'Arcy
Down to the Sea in Ships
'Dot' Morgan
The Ancient Mariner
Doris
The Runaway
Cynthia Meade