Clara Bow
Acting
Born July 29, 1905, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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.
Filmography
- 2025Hodgepodge — Self (archive footage, as Mary Preston)
- 2012Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess
- 2010Flappers, Speakeasies, and the Birth of Modern Culture
- 2010Sigrid Holmquist — Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
- 2002Edith Head: The Paramount Years — (archive footage)
- 1995The Casting Couch
- 1988Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies — (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1986Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend — archive footage
- 1981The Muppets Go to the Movies — Mary Preston (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Hollywood — Self (archive footage, uncredited)
- 1953Yesterday and Today — (archive footage)
- 1949Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner — Clara Bow
- 1933Hoopla — Lou
- 1933The Film Parade — (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1932Call Her Savage — Nasa Springer
- 1931Kick In — Molly Hewes
- 1931No Limit — Helen 'Bunny' O'Day
- 1931The House That Shadows Built — (archive footage)
- 1930Her Wedding Night — Norma Martin
- 1930Love Among the Millionaires — Pepper Whipple
- 1930True to the Navy — Ruby Nolan
- 1929Dangerous Curves — Pat Delaney
- 1929The Saturday Night Kid — Mayme Barry
- 1929The Wild Party — Stella Ames
- 1928Ladies of the Mob — Yvonne
- 1928Red Hair — Bubbles McCoy
- 1928The Fleet's In — Trixie Deane
- 1928Three Week Ends — Gladys O'Brien
- 1927Children of Divorce — Kitty Flanders
- 1927Get Your Man — Nancy Worthington
- 1927Hula — Hula Calhoun
- 1927It — Betty Lou Spence
- 1927Rough House Rosie — Rosie O'Reilly
- 1927Wings — Mary Preston
- 1926Dancing Mothers — Kittens Westcourt
- 1926Fascinating Youth — Clara Bow
- 1926Kid Boots — Clara McCoy
- 1926Mantrap — Alverna
- 1926Shadow of the Law — Mary Brophy
- 1926The Runaway — Cynthia Meade
- 1926Two Can Play — Dorothy Hammis
- 1925Capital Punishment — Delia Tate
- 1925Eve's Lover — Rena D'Arcy
- 1925Free to Love — Marie Anthony
- 1925Kiss Me Again — Grizette
- 1925My Lady of Whims — Prudence Severn
- 1925My Lady's Lips — Vola Lombard
- 1925Parisian Love — Marie
- 1925The Adventurous Sex — The Girl
- 1925The Ancient Mariner — Doris
- 1925The Best Bad Man — Peggy Swain
- 1925The Keeper of the Bees — Lolly Cameron
- 1925The Lawful Cheater — Molly Burns
- 1925The Plastic Age — Cynthia Day
- 1925The Primrose Path — Marilyn Merrill
- 1925The Scarlet West — Miriam
- 1924Black Lightning — Martha Larned
- 1924Daughters of Pleasure — Lila Millas
- 1924Empty Hearts — Rosalie
- 1924Grit — Orchid McGonigle
- 1924Helen's Babies — Alice Mayton
- 1924Poisoned Paradise — Margot LeBlanc
- 1924This Woman — Aline Sturdevant
- 1924Wine — Angela Warriner
- 1923Black Oxen — Janet Ogelthorpe
- 1923Enemies of Women — Dancing Girl (uncredited), Girl Dancing on Table
- 1923Maytime — Alice Tremaine
- 1923The Daring Years — Mary
- 1923The Pill Pounder
- 1922Beyond the Rainbow — Virginia Gardener
- 1922Down to the Sea in Ships — 'Dot' Morgan
Appearances as themselves (6)
- 2011Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films — Herself (archive footage)
- 2007Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema — Self (archive footage)
- 1999Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl — Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
- 1995Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons — Self (archive footage)
- 1995The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies — Self (archive footage)
- 1930Paramount on Parade — Herself