Clara Bow
Known For
Acting
Born
1905-07-29 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Died
1965-09-27
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.
Most Known For
Wings
as Mary Preston
Kid Boots
as Clara McCoy
Wine
as Angela Warriner
Her Wedding Night
as Norma Martin
Call Her Savage
as Nasa Springer
Hula
as Hula Calhoun
Hoopla
as Lou
Helen's Babies
as Alice Mayton
Hodgepodge
as Self (archive footage, as Mary Preston)
The Adventurous Sex
as The Girl
It
as Betty Lou Spence
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
Paramount on Parade
as Herself
The Plastic Age
as Cynthia Day
Eve's Lover
as Rena D'Arcy
This Woman
as Aline Sturdevant
The Wild Party
as Stella Ames
No Limit
as Helen 'Bunny' O'Day
Children of Divorce
as Kitty Flanders
Mantrap
as Alverna