Clara Bow
Acting
1905-07-29 · 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
Hodgepodge
2025 · Movie
Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess
2012 · Movie
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
2011 · Movie
Sigrid Holmquist
2010 · Movie
Flappers, Speakeasies, and the Birth of Modern Culture
2010 · Movie
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007 · Movie
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
2002 · Movie
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
1999 · Movie
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995 · Movie
The Casting Couch
1995 · Movie
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
1995 · Movie
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
1988 · Movie
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
1986 · Movie
The Muppets Go to the Movies
1981 · Movie
Yesterday and Today
1953 · Movie
Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner
1949 · Movie
Hoopla
1933 · Movie
The Film Parade
1933 · Movie
Call Her Savage
1932 · Movie
The House That Shadows Built
1931 · Movie
Kick In
1931 · Movie
No Limit
1931 · Movie
Her Wedding Night
1930 · Movie
Love Among the Millionaires
1930 · Movie
True to the Navy
1930 · Movie
Paramount on Parade
1930 · Movie
The Saturday Night Kid
1929 · Movie
Dangerous Curves
1929 · Movie
The Wild Party
1929 · Movie
Three Week Ends
1928 · Movie
The Fleet's In
1928 · Movie
Ladies of the Mob
1928 · Movie
Red Hair
1928 · Movie
Get Your Man
1927 · Movie
Hula
1927 · Movie
Wings
1927 · Movie
Rough House Rosie
1927 · Movie
Children of Divorce
1927 · Movie
It
1927 · Movie
Kid Boots
1926 · Movie
Mantrap
1926 · Movie
The Runaway
1926 · Movie
Fascinating Youth
1926 · Movie
Dancing Mothers
1926 · Movie
Two Can Play
1926 · Movie
Shadow of the Law
1926 · Movie
The Ancient Mariner
1925 · Movie
The Plastic Age
1925 · Movie
My Lady of Whims
1925 · Movie
The Best Bad Man
1925 · Movie
Free to Love
1925 · Movie
The Primrose Path
1925 · Movie
The Keeper of the Bees
1925 · Movie
Parisian Love
1925 · Movie
Kiss Me Again
1925 · Movie
The Scarlet West
1925 · Movie
The Lawful Cheater
1925 · Movie
Eve's Lover
1925 · Movie
My Lady's Lips
1925 · Movie
The Adventurous Sex
1925 · Movie
Capital Punishment
1925 · Movie
Black Lightning
1924 · Movie
This Woman
1924 · Movie
Helen's Babies
1924 · Movie
Empty Hearts
1924 · Movie
Wine
1924 · Movie
Daughters of Pleasure
1924 · Movie
Poisoned Paradise
1924 · Movie
Grit
1924 · Movie
Black Oxen
1923 · Movie
Maytime
1923 · Movie
The Daring Years
1923 · Movie
The Pill Pounder
1923 · Movie
Enemies of Women
1923 · Movie
Down to the Sea in Ships
1922 · Movie
Beyond the Rainbow
1922 · Movie