Clara Bow
Acting
75 titles
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.
Filmography
Hodgepodge
2025
Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess
2012
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
2011
Sigrid Holmquist
2010
Flappers, Speakeasies, and the Birth of Modern Culture
2010
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
2002
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
1999
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
1995
The Casting Couch
1995
100 Years at the Movies
1994
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
1988
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
1986
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
Love Among the Millionaires
1930
True to the Navy
1930
Paramount on Parade
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