Clara Bow

Known for ActingBorn 1905-07-29Died 1965-09-27Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

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.Read more

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Ladies of the Mob

The Runaway

Shadow of the Law

My Lady's Lips

The Keeper of the Bees

The Ancient Mariner

The Adventurous Sex

Wine

Grit

The Daring Years

Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

Black Lightning

The Casting Couch

Fascinating Youth

Two Can Play

The Best Bad Man

The Scarlet West

This Woman

Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl

Beyond the Rainbow

Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons

The House That Shadows Built

Red Hair

Edith Head: The Paramount Years

100 Years at the Movies

The Film Parade

Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend

Rough House Rosie

Poisoned Paradise

Daughters of Pleasure

The Pill Pounder

Sigrid Holmquist

Kick In

True to the Navy

Her Wedding Night

Dancing Mothers

Yesterday and Today

Wings

Three Week Ends

The Fleet's In

Capital Punishment

Kiss Me Again

Eve's Lover

Empty Hearts

Maytime

It

The Wild Party

Kid Boots