Clara Bow
Biography
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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.
Acting (73 movies)
Wings
1927
Yesterday and Today
1953
This Woman
1924
The Wild Party
1929
It
1927
Mantrap
1926
Hoopla
1933
Poisoned Paradise
1924
Call Her Savage
1932
100 Years at the Movies
1994
Parisian Love
1925
No Limit
1931
Dangerous Curves
1929
The Saturday Night Kid
1929
True to the Navy
1930
Rough House Rosie
1927
Love Among the Millionaires
1930
Free to Love
1925
My Lady of Whims
1925
The Plastic Age
1925
Capital Punishment
1925
Her Wedding Night
1930
Dancing Mothers
1926
Kid Boots
1926
Hula
1927
Get Your Man
1927
Black Oxen
1923
Helen's Babies
1924
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
1995
Ladies of the Mob
1928
The Primrose Path
1925
The Runaway
1926
Maytime
1923
Daughters of Pleasure
1924
Kiss Me Again
1925
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
2002
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
2011
Black Lightning
1924
The Best Bad Man
1925
Paramount on Parade
1930
Shadow of the Law
1926
Red Hair
1928
Three Week Ends
1928
Children of Divorce
1927
Kick In
1931
My Lady's Lips
1925
Down to the Sea in Ships
1922
Fascinating Youth
1926
The Fleet's In
1928
Two Can Play
1926
Beyond the Rainbow
1922
The Keeper of the Bees
1925
The Film Parade
1933
Sigrid Holmquist
2010
The Ancient Mariner
1925
Empty Hearts
1924
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007
The House That Shadows Built
1931
Wine
1924
The Pill Pounder
1923
The Scarlet West
1925
The Adventurous Sex
1925
The Daring Years
1923
Grit
1924
The Lawful Cheater
1925
Eve's Lover
1925
Enemies of Women
1923
Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
1999
Enemies of Women
1923
Hodgepodge
2025
Flappers, Speakeasies, and the Birth of Modern Culture
2010
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
1988
Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess
2012
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