Clara Bow
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.
Wings
(Mary Preston)
Yesterday and Today
((archive footage))
Galas de la Paramount
(Self (from original version))
This Woman
(Aline Sturdevant)
The Wild Party
(Stella Ames)
It
(Betty Lou Spence)
Mantrap
(Alverna)
Hoopla
(Lou)
Poisoned Paradise
(Margot LeBlanc)
Call Her Savage
(Nasa Springer)
Harlow: The Blonde Bombshell
(Self (archive footage))
100 Years at the Movies
Parisian Love
(Marie)
No Limit
(Helen 'Bunny' O'Day)
Dangerous Curves
(Pat Delaney)
The Saturday Night Kid
(Mayme Barry)
True to the Navy
(Ruby Nolan)
Rough House Rosie
(Rosie O'Reilly)
Love Among the Millionaires
(Pepper Whipple)
Free to Love
(Marie Anthony)
My Lady of Whims
(Prudence Severn)
The Plastic Age
(Cynthia Day)
Capital Punishment
(Delia Tate)
Her Wedding Night
(Norma Martin)
Dancing Mothers
(Kittens Westcourt)
Kid Boots
(Clara McCoy)
Hula
(Hula Calhoun)
Get Your Man
(Nancy Worthington)
Black Oxen
(Janet Ogelthorpe)
Helen's Babies
(Alice Mayton)
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
(Self (archive footage))
Ladies of the Mob
(Yvonne)
The Primrose Path
(Marilyn Merrill)
The Runaway
(Cynthia Meade)
Maytime
(Alice Tremaine)
Daughters of Pleasure
(Lila Millas)
Kiss Me Again
(Grizette)
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
((archive footage))
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
(Herself (archive footage))
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
(Self (archive footage))
Black Lightning
(Martha Larned)
The Best Bad Man
(Peggy Swain)
Paramount on Parade
(Herself)
Shadow of the Law
(Mary Brophy)
Red Hair
(Bubbles McCoy)
Three Week Ends
(Gladys O'Brien)
Children of Divorce
(Kitty Flanders)
Kick In
(Molly Hewes)
My Lady's Lips
(Lola Lombard)
Down to the Sea in Ships
('Dot' Morgan)
The Fleet's In
(Trixie Deane)
Beyond the Rainbow
(Virginia Gardener)
Fascinating Youth
(Clara Bow)
Two Can Play
(Dorothy Hammis)
The Keeper of the Bees
(Lolly Cameron)
The Film Parade
((archive footage) (uncredited))
Sigrid Holmquist
(Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage))
The Ancient Mariner
(Doris)
Empty Hearts
(Rosalie)
The Love Goddesses
((archive footage))
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
(Self (archive footage))
The House That Shadows Built
((archive footage))
Eve's Lover
(Rena D'Arcy)
Wine
(Angela Warriner)
The Pill Pounder
The Daring Years
(Mary)
Grit
(Orchid McGonigle)
The Lawful Cheater
(Molly Burns)
The Scarlet West
(Miriam)
The Adventurous Sex
(The Girl)
Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner
(Clara Bow)
Enemies of Women
(Dancing Girl (uncredited))
Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
(Self / Various Roles (archive footage))