Clara Bow
Acting
Born: 1905-07-29 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Biography
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
Hoopla
Lou
Wings
Mary Preston
Wine
Angela Warriner
Hodgepodge
Self (archive footage, as Mary Preston)
This Woman
Aline Sturdevant
Kid Boots
Clara McCoy
Flappers, Speakeasies, and the Birth of Modern Culture
Call Her Savage
Nasa Springer
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Self (archive footage)
The House That Shadows Built
(archive footage)
Hula
Hula Calhoun
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
(archive footage)
The Scarlet West
Miriam
Mantrap
Alverna
Free to Love
Marie Anthony
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Self (archive footage)
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Herself (archive footage)
Eve's Lover
Rena D'Arcy
Her Wedding Night
Norma Martin
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
Self (archive footage)
My Lady's Lips
Lola Lombard
The Muppets Go to the Movies
Mary Preston (archive footage) (uncredited)
It
Betty Lou Spence
The Casting Couch
Children of Divorce
Kitty Flanders
The Wild Party
Stella Ames
Three Week Ends
Gladys O'Brien
Sigrid Holmquist
Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Paramount on Parade
Herself
Helen's Babies
Alice Mayton
The Best Bad Man
Peggy Swain
Love Among the Millionaires
Pepper Whipple
No Limit
Helen 'Bunny' O'Day
Get Your Man
Nancy Worthington
Two Can Play
Dorothy Hammis
Maytime
Alice Tremaine
Red Hair
Bubbles McCoy
Ladies of the Mob
Yvonne
The Film Parade
(archive footage) (uncredited)