Clara Bow
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.
75 acting credits
Acting · 75
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
1995
Wings
1927
The Plastic Age
1925
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
1999
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
2011
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
2002
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
1986
Call Her Savage
1932
Red Hair
1928
Mantrap
1926
No Limit
1931
Kid Boots
1926
Hula
1927
It
1927
Dangerous Curves
1929
Sigrid Holmquist
2010
Fascinating Youth
1926
The Scarlet West
1925
Children of Divorce
1927
The Wild Party
1929
The Saturday Night Kid
1929
Wine
1924
Helen's Babies
1924
Hodgepodge
2025
The Best Bad Man
1925
The Daring Years
1923
The Casting Couch
1995
Kick In
1931
Get Your Man
1927
Parisian Love
1925
My Lady of Whims
1925
The Runaway
1926
The Film Parade
1933
Free to Love
1925
Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner
1949
This Woman
1924
Yesterday and Today
1953
Grit
1924
Eve's Lover
1925
Capital Punishment
1925
Ladies of the Mob
1928
The Adventurous Sex
1925
The House That Shadows Built
1931
True to the Navy
1930
The Primrose Path
1925
Empty Hearts
1924
Maytime
1923
Enemies of Women
1923
The Lawful Cheater
1925
Her Wedding Night
1930
Beyond the Rainbow
1922
Dancing Mothers
1926
Daughters of Pleasure
1924
Love Among the Millionaires
1930
My Lady's Lips
1925
The Fleet's In
1928
Hoopla
1933
Three Week Ends
1928
Rough House Rosie
1927
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
1988
The Ancient Mariner
1925
Shadow of the Law
1926
Poisoned Paradise
1924
Black Oxen
1923
100 Years at the Movies
1994
Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess
2012
Paramount on Parade
1930
Down to the Sea in Ships
1922
Black Lightning
1924
The Keeper of the Bees
1925
Kiss Me Again
1925
Two Can Play
1926
The Pill Pounder
1923
Flappers, Speakeasies, and the Birth of Modern Culture
2010