Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl

With scenes from more than 25 films, a documentary portrait of the screen's first sex symbol

Clara Bow: Discovering the 'It' Girl features scenes from 25 of her films, as well as interviews with family members and acquaintances.

Documentary TV Movie

Courtney Love

(Narrator (voice))

David Stenn

(Self - Clara's Biographer)

Budd Schulberg

(Self - Author and Screenwriter)

Catherine Mulligan

(Self - Clara's Friend)

Rex Bell Jr.

(Self - Clara's Son)

Baby Peggy

(Self - Clara's Co-Star in 'Helen's Babies')

Leonard Maltin

(Self - Film Critic and Historian)

A.C. Lyles

(Self - Producer at Paramount)

Marion Shilling

Marge Marshall

(Self - Clara's Friend)

Charles "Buddy" Rogers

(Self - Clara's Co-Star in 'Wings' (voice))

Jean Arthur

(Self (from The Saturday Night Kid [1929]) (archive footage))

Rex Bell

(Self (archive footage))

Clara Bow

(Self / Various Roles (archive footage))

Louise Brooks

(Self (archive footage))

Gary Cooper

(Self / Various Roles (archive footage))

Richard Cromwell

(Self (from Hoopla [1933]) (archive footage))

Marceline Day

(Self (from The Wild Party [1929]) (archive footage))

Victor Fleming

(Self (archive footage))

John Gilbert

(Self (archive footage))

Elinor Glyn

(Self - Author of 'It' (archive footage))

Jean Harlow

(Self (from The Saturday Night Kid [1929]) (archive footage))

Donald Keith

(Self (from The Plastic Age [1925]) (archive footage))

Tom Kennedy

(Self (from Mantrap [1926]) (archive footage))

Bela Lugosi

(Self (archive footage))

Marilyn Monroe

(Self (archive footage))

Edna May Oliver

(Self (from The Saturday Night Kid [1929]) (archive footage))

Esther Ralston

(Self (archive footage))

Gilbert Roland

(Self / Various Roles (archive footage))

Ernest Torrence

(Self (from Mantrap [1926]) (archive footage))