Clara Bow
Acting · Born Jul 29, 1905 · Died Sep 27, 1965 (60) · 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.
Known for
Films
Hodgepodge
2025
Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess
20127.5
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
20119.0
Sigrid Holmquist
20107.0
Flappers, Speakeasies, and the Birth of Modern Culture
2010
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
20074.3
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
20027.7
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
19998.2
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
19958.0
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
19958.0
The Casting Couch
19958.3
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
1988
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
19867.4
The Muppets Go to the Movies
19817.0
Yesterday and Today
19537.0
Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner
1949
Hoopla
19336.3
The Film Parade
19338.0
Call Her Savage
19325.7
The House That Shadows Built
19318.5
Kick In
19317.5
No Limit
19316.0
Her Wedding Night
19307.5
Love Among the Millionaires
19305.8
True to the Navy
19307.5
Paramount on Parade
19305.9
The Saturday Night Kid
19294.8
Dangerous Curves
19296.6
The Wild Party
19296.8
Three Week Ends
19287.0
The Fleet's In
19287.0
Ladies of the Mob
192810.0
Red Hair
19288.5
Get Your Man
19276.4
Hula
19276.1
Wings
19277.2
Rough House Rosie
19278.0
Children of Divorce
19276.0
It
19276.9
Kid Boots
19266.8
Mantrap
19266.2
The Runaway
192610.0
Fascinating Youth
19269.0
Dancing Mothers
19267.5
Two Can Play
19269.0
Shadow of the Law
192610.0
The Ancient Mariner
192510.0
The Plastic Age
19256.2
My Lady of Whims
19255.4
The Best Bad Man
19259.0
Free to Love
19256.0
The Primrose Path
19255.8
The Keeper of the Bees
192510.0
Parisian Love
19255.0
Kiss Me Again
19257.0
The Scarlet West
19259.0
The Lawful Cheater
1925
Eve's Lover
19257.0
My Lady's Lips
192510.0
The Adventurous Sex
192510.0
Capital Punishment
19257.0
Black Lightning
19249.5
This Woman
19249.0
Helen's Babies
19245.9
Empty Hearts
19247.0
Wine
192410.0
Daughters of Pleasure
19248.0
Poisoned Paradise
19248.0
Grit
192410.0
Black Oxen
19235.8
Maytime
19237.0
The Daring Years
192310.0
The Pill Pounder
19238.0
Enemies of Women
19236.5
Down to the Sea in Ships
19225.7
Beyond the Rainbow
19229.0