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Clara Gordon Bow (July 29, 1905 β 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.
Filmography
all 82
Movies 82
self 15
Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies (2020)
Hollywood Rebellen (2013)
Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess (2012)
Screen Goddesses (2012)
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films (2011)
Sigrid Holmquist (2010)
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007)
Edith Head: The Paramount Years (2002)
Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl (1999)
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995)
The Casting Couch (1995)
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons (1995)
100 Years at the Movies (1994)
Harlow: The Blonde Bombshell (1993)
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend (1986)
The Flapper Story (1985)
The Age of Ballyhoo (1973)
The Love Goddesses (1965)
Yesterday and Today (1953)
Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner (1949)
Hoopla (1933)
The Film Parade (1933)
Call Her Savage (1932)
The House That Shadows Built (1931)
Kick In (1931)
No Limit (1931)
Her Wedding Night (1930)
Galas de la Paramount (1930)
Love Among the Millionaires (1930)
True to the Navy (1930)
Paramount on Parade (1930)
Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 11 (1930)
The Saturday Night Kid (1929)
Dangerous Curves (1929)
The Wild Party (1929)
Three Week Ends (1928)
The Fleet's In (1928)
Ladies of the Mob (1928)
Red Hair (1928)
Get Your Man (1927)
Hula (1927)
Wings (1927)
Rough House Rosie (1927)
Children of Divorce (1927)
It (1927)
Kid Boots (1926)
Mantrap (1926)
The Runaway (1926)
Fascinating Youth (1926)
Dancing Mothers (1926)
Two Can Play (1926)
Shadow of the Law (1926)
The Ancient Mariner (1925)
The Plastic Age (1925)
My Lady of Whims (1925)
The Best Bad Man (1925)
Free to Love (1925)
The Primrose Path (1925)
The Keeper of the Bees (1925)
Parisian Love (1925)
Kiss Me Again (1925)
The Scarlet West (1925)
The Lawful Cheater (1925)
Eve's Lover (1925)
My Lady's Lips (1925)
The Adventurous Sex (1925)
Capital Punishment (1925)
Black Lightning (1924)
This Woman (1924)
Helen's Babies (1924)
Empty Hearts (1924)
Wine (1924)
Daughters of Pleasure (1924)
Poisoned Paradise (1924)
Grit (1924)
Black Oxen (1923)
Maytime (1923)
The Daring Years (1923)
The Pill Pounder (1923)
Enemies of Women (1923)
Down to the Sea in Ships (1922)
Beyond the Rainbow (1922)
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1905-07-29
Deathday1965-09-27 (60 years old)
Birth NameClara Gordon Bow
Birth PlaceBrooklyn, United States of America
RelationshipsRex Bell (1931-01-01 - 1962-01-01)
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsClara Gordon Bow, The 'It' Girl
Awardsstar on Hollywood Walk of Fame
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