Clara Bow
Known for: Acting
Born: July 29, 1905
Died: September 27, 1965
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
76 movies · 0 TV shows, newest first
NR
Hodgepodge
2025
7.5
Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess
2012
9.0
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
2011
7.0
Sigrid Holmquist
2010
NR
Flappers, Speakeasies, and the Birth of Modern Culture
2010
4.3
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007
7.7
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
2002
8.3
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
1999
8.0
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995
8.0
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
1995
8.3
The Casting Couch
1995
NR
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
1988
7.4
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
1986
7.0
The Muppets Go to the Movies
1981
7.0
Yesterday and Today
1953
NR
Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner
1949
6.3
Hoopla
1933
8.0
The Film Parade
1933
5.8
Call Her Savage
1932
8.5
The House That Shadows Built
1931
7.5
Kick In
1931
6.0
No Limit
1931
7.5
Her Wedding Night
1930
6.3
Love Among the Millionaires
1930
7.5
True to the Navy
1930
5.9
Paramount on Parade
1930
4.7
The Saturday Night Kid
1929
6.6
Dangerous Curves
1929
6.9
The Wild Party
1929
7.0
Three Week Ends
1928
7.0
The Fleet's In
1928
10.0
Ladies of the Mob
1928
8.5
Red Hair
1928
6.4
Get Your Man
1927
6.1
Hula
1927
7.2
Wings
1927
8.0
Rough House Rosie
1927
6.0
Children of Divorce
1927
6.9
It
1927
6.8
Kid Boots
1926
6.2
Mantrap
1926
10.0
The Runaway
1926
9.0
Fascinating Youth
1926
7.5
Dancing Mothers
1926
9.0
Two Can Play
1926
10.0
Shadow of the Law
1926
10.0
The Ancient Mariner
1925
6.2
The Plastic Age
1925
5.4
My Lady of Whims
1925
9.0
The Best Bad Man
1925
6.0
Free to Love
1925
5.8
The Primrose Path
1925
10.0
The Keeper of the Bees
1925
5.0
Parisian Love
1925
7.0
Kiss Me Again
1925
9.0
The Scarlet West
1925
NR
The Lawful Cheater
1925
7.0
Eve's Lover
1925
10.0
My Lady's Lips
1925
10.0
The Adventurous Sex
1925
7.0
Capital Punishment
1925
9.5
Black Lightning
1924
9.0
This Woman
1924
5.9
Helen's Babies
1924
7.0
Empty Hearts
1924
10.0
Wine
1924
8.0
Daughters of Pleasure
1924
8.0
Poisoned Paradise
1924
10.0
Grit
1924
5.8
Black Oxen
1923
7.0
Maytime
1923
10.0
The Daring Years
1923
8.0
The Pill Pounder
1923
6.5
Enemies of Women
1923
5.7
Down to the Sea in Ships
1922
9.0
Beyond the Rainbow
1922