Clara Bow
Acting • Born 1905-07-29 – 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.
Filmography
74 credits
Wings
Movie • 1927
Mary Preston
Yesterday and Today
Movie • 1953
(archive footage)
This Woman
Movie • 1924
Aline Sturdevant
The Wild Party
Movie • 1929
Stella Ames
It
Movie • 1927
Betty Lou Spence
Mantrap
Movie • 1926
Alverna
Hoopla
Movie • 1933
Lou
Poisoned Paradise
Movie • 1924
Margot LeBlanc
Call Her Savage
Movie • 1932
Nasa Springer
100 Years at the Movies
Movie • 1994
Parisian Love
Movie • 1925
Marie
No Limit
Movie • 1931
Helen 'Bunny' O'Day
Dangerous Curves
Movie • 1929
Pat Delaney
The Saturday Night Kid
Movie • 1929
Mayme Barry
True to the Navy
Movie • 1930
Ruby Nolan
Rough House Rosie
Movie • 1927
Rosie O'Reilly
Love Among the Millionaires
Movie • 1930
Pepper Whipple
Free to Love
Movie • 1925
Marie Anthony
My Lady of Whims
Movie • 1925
Prudence Severn
The Plastic Age
Movie • 1925
Cynthia Day
Capital Punishment
Movie • 1925
Delia Tate
Her Wedding Night
Movie • 1930
Norma Martin
Dancing Mothers
Movie • 1926
Kittens Westcourt
Kid Boots
Movie • 1926
Clara McCoy
Hula
Movie • 1927
Hula Calhoun
Get Your Man
Movie • 1927
Nancy Worthington
Black Oxen
Movie • 1923
Janet Ogelthorpe
Helen's Babies
Movie • 1924
Alice Mayton
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
Movie • 1995
Self (archive footage)
Ladies of the Mob
Movie • 1928
Yvonne
The Primrose Path
Movie • 1925
Marilyn Merrill
The Runaway
Movie • 1926
Cynthia Meade
Maytime
Movie • 1923
Alice Tremaine
Daughters of Pleasure
Movie • 1924
Lila Millas
Kiss Me Again
Movie • 1925
Grizette
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
Movie • 2002
(archive footage)
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Movie • 2011
Herself (archive footage)
Black Lightning
Movie • 1924
Martha Larned
The Best Bad Man
Movie • 1925
Peggy Swain
Paramount on Parade
Movie • 1930
Herself
Shadow of the Law
Movie • 1926
Mary Brophy
Red Hair
Movie • 1928
Bubbles McCoy
Three Week Ends
Movie • 1928
Gladys O'Brien
Children of Divorce
Movie • 1927
Kitty Flanders
Kick In
Movie • 1931
Molly Hewes
My Lady's Lips
Movie • 1925
Lola Lombard
Down to the Sea in Ships
Movie • 1922
'Dot' Morgan
Fascinating Youth
Movie • 1926
Clara Bow
The Fleet's In
Movie • 1928
Trixie Deane
Two Can Play
Movie • 1926
Dorothy Hammis
Beyond the Rainbow
Movie • 1922
Virginia Gardener
The Keeper of the Bees
Movie • 1925
Lolly Cameron
The Film Parade
Movie • 1933
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Sigrid Holmquist
Movie • 2010
Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
The Ancient Mariner
Movie • 1925
Doris
Empty Hearts
Movie • 1924
Rosalie
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Movie • 2007
Self (archive footage)
The House That Shadows Built
Movie • 1931
(archive footage)
Wine
Movie • 1924
Angela Warriner
The Pill Pounder
Movie • 1923
The Scarlet West
Movie • 1925
Miriam
The Adventurous Sex
Movie • 1925
The Girl
The Daring Years
Movie • 1923
Mary
Grit
Movie • 1924
Orchid McGonigle
The Lawful Cheater
Movie • 1925
Molly Burns
Eve's Lover
Movie • 1925
Rena D'Arcy
Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner
Movie • 1949
Clara Bow
Enemies of Women
Movie • 1923
Dancing Girl (uncredited)
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
Movie • 1999
Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
Enemies of Women
Movie • 1923
Girl Dancing on Table
Hodgepodge
Movie • 2025
Self (archive footage, as Mary Preston)
Flappers, Speakeasies, and the Birth of Modern Culture
Movie • 2010
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
Movie • 1988
Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess
Movie • 2012