Clara Bow

Also Known As: Clara Gordon Bow, The 'It' Girl

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.

Department: Acting

Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Birthday: July 29, 1905

Deathday: September 27, 1965

Adult: No

Gender: Female

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Known For:

Wings
Yesterday and Today
This Woman
The Wild Party
It
Mantrap
Hoopla
Poisoned Paradise
Call Her Savage
Harlow: The Blonde Bombshell
100 Years at the Movies
Parisian Love
No Limit
Dangerous Curves
The Saturday Night Kid
True to the Navy
Rough House Rosie
Love Among the Millionaires
Free to Love
My Lady of Whims
Capital Punishment
The Plastic Age
Her Wedding Night
Dancing Mothers
Kid Boots
Hula
Get Your Man
Black Oxen
Helen's Babies
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
Ladies of the Mob
The Primrose Path
The Runaway
Maytime
Daughters of Pleasure
Kiss Me Again
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
Black Lightning
The Best Bad Man
Paramount on Parade
Shadow of the Law
Red Hair
Three Week Ends
Children of Divorce
Kick In
My Lady's Lips
Down to the Sea in Ships
Beyond the Rainbow
The Fleet's In
Fascinating Youth
Two Can Play
The Keeper of the Bees
The Film Parade
Sigrid Holmquist
The Ancient Mariner
Empty Hearts
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
The House That Shadows Built
The Pill Pounder
The Daring Years
Grit
Wine
The Adventurous Sex
Eve's Lover
The Lawful Cheater
The Scarlet West
Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner
Enemies of Women
Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
Enemies of Women