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.
Fotos
Películas (76)
Hodgepodge
2025 · Self (archive footage, as Mary Preston)
Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess
2012
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
2011 · Herself (archive footage)
Sigrid Holmquist
2010 · Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
Flappers, Speakeasies, and the Birth of Modern Culture
2010
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007 · Self (archive footage)
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
2002 · (archive footage)
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
1999 · Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995 · Self (archive footage)
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
1995 · Self (archive footage)
The Casting Couch
1995
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
1988 · (archive footage) (uncredited)
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
1986 · archive footage
The Muppets Go to the Movies
1981 · Mary Preston (archive footage) (uncredited)
Yesterday and Today
1953 · (archive footage)
Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner
1949 · Clara Bow
Hoopla
1933 · Lou
The Film Parade
1933 · (archive footage) (uncredited)
Call Her Savage
1932 · Nasa Springer
The House That Shadows Built
1931 · (archive footage)
Kick In
1931 · Molly Hewes
No Limit
1931 · Helen 'Bunny' O'Day
Her Wedding Night
1930 · Norma Martin
Love Among the Millionaires
1930 · Pepper Whipple
True to the Navy
1930 · Ruby Nolan
Paramount on Parade
1930 · Herself
The Saturday Night Kid
1929 · Mayme Barry
Dangerous Curves
1929 · Pat Delaney
The Wild Party
1929 · Stella Ames
Three Week Ends
1928 · Gladys O'Brien
The Fleet's In
1928 · Trixie Deane
Ladies of the Mob
1928 · Yvonne
Red Hair
1928 · Bubbles McCoy
Get Your Man
1927 · Nancy Worthington
Hula
1927 · Hula Calhoun
Wings
1927 · Mary Preston
Rough House Rosie
1927 · Rosie O'Reilly
Children of Divorce
1927 · Kitty Flanders
It
1927 · Betty Lou Spence
Kid Boots
1926 · Clara McCoy
Mantrap
1926 · Alverna
The Runaway
1926 · Cynthia Meade
Fascinating Youth
1926 · Clara Bow
Dancing Mothers
1926 · Kittens Westcourt
Two Can Play
1926 · Dorothy Hammis
Shadow of the Law
1926 · Mary Brophy
The Ancient Mariner
1925 · Doris
The Plastic Age
1925 · Cynthia Day
My Lady of Whims
1925 · Prudence Severn
The Best Bad Man
1925 · Peggy Swain
Free to Love
1925 · Marie Anthony
The Primrose Path
1925 · Marilyn Merrill
The Keeper of the Bees
1925 · Lolly Cameron
Parisian Love
1925 · Marie
Kiss Me Again
1925 · Grizette
The Scarlet West
1925 · Miriam
The Lawful Cheater
1925 · Molly Burns
Eve's Lover
1925 · Rena D'Arcy
My Lady's Lips
1925 · Vola Lombard
The Adventurous Sex
1925 · The Girl
Capital Punishment
1925 · Delia Tate
Black Lightning
1924 · Martha Larned
This Woman
1924 · Aline Sturdevant
Helen's Babies
1924 · Alice Mayton
Empty Hearts
1924 · Rosalie
Wine
1924 · Angela Warriner
Daughters of Pleasure
1924 · Lila Millas
Poisoned Paradise
1924 · Margot LeBlanc
Grit
1924 · Orchid McGonigle
Black Oxen
1923 · Janet Ogelthorpe
Maytime
1923 · Alice Tremaine
The Daring Years
1923 · Mary
The Pill Pounder
1923
Enemies of Women
1923 · Dancing Girl (uncredited), Girl Dancing on Table
Down to the Sea in Ships
1922 · 'Dot' Morgan
Beyond the Rainbow
1922 · Virginia Gardener
