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.
Personal info
Gender
Female
Birthday
1905-07-29
Place of birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Images
Cast
Wings
1927
7.20
Yesterday and Today
1953
0.00
This Woman
1924
0.00
The Wild Party
1929
6.70
It
1927
6.90
Mantrap
1926
6.00
Hoopla
1933
6.00
Poisoned Paradise
1924
0.00
Call Her Savage
1932
5.50
100 Years at the Movies
1994
7.50
Parisian Love
1925
4.60
No Limit
1931
5.50
Dangerous Curves
1929
6.00
The Saturday Night Kid
1929
4.40
True to the Navy
1930
7.00
Rough House Rosie
1927
0.00
Love Among the Millionaires
1930
6.00
Free to Love
1925
5.00
My Lady of Whims
1925
4.90
The Plastic Age
1925
6.00
Capital Punishment
1925
5.50
Her Wedding Night
1930
6.00
Dancing Mothers
1926
6.70
Kid Boots
1926
6.50
Hula
1927
5.75
Get Your Man
1927
6.40
Black Oxen
1923
5.20
Helen's Babies
1924
5.63
Ladies of the Mob
1928
0.00
The Primrose Path
1925
5.20
The Runaway
1926
0.00
Maytime
1923
6.33
Daughters of Pleasure
1924
0.00
Kiss Me Again
1925
0.00
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
2002
7.50
Black Lightning
1924
0.00
The Best Bad Man
1925
0.00
Paramount on Parade
1930
6.10
Shadow of the Law
1926
0.00
Red Hair
1928
7.00
Three Week Ends
1928
0.00
Children of Divorce
1927
5.70
Kick In
1931
6.00
My Lady's Lips
1925
0.00
Down to the Sea in Ships
1922
5.10
The Fleet's In
1928
0.00
Beyond the Rainbow
1922
0.00
Fascinating Youth
1926
0.00
Two Can Play
1926
0.00
The Keeper of the Bees
1925
0.00
The Film Parade
1933
0.00
Sigrid Holmquist
2010
7.00
The Ancient Mariner
1925
0.00
Empty Hearts
1924
0.00
The House That Shadows Built
1931
7.00
Eve's Lover
1925
0.00
Wine
1924
0.00
The Pill Pounder
1923
0.00
The Daring Years
1923
0.00
Grit
1924
0.00
The Lawful Cheater
1925
0.00
The Scarlet West
1925
0.00
The Adventurous Sex
1925
0.00
Enemies of Women
1923
5.20
Enemies of Women
1923
5.20
Hodgepodge
2025
0.00
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
1988
0.00
The Love Goddesses
1965
6.10