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