Clara Bow
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1905-07-29
Day of Death
1965-09-27 (60 years old)
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Clara Bow
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.
Known For
Acting
(2025)
Hodgepodge
as Self (archive footage, as Mary Preston)
(2011)
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
as Herself (archive footage)
(2010)
Sigrid Holmquist
as Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
(2007)
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
(2002)
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
as (archive footage)
(1999)
Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
as Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
(1995)
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
as Self (archive footage)
(1994)
(1993)
Harlow: The Blonde Bombshell
as Self (archive footage)
(1986)
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
as Self (archive footage)
(1953)
Yesterday and Today
as (archive footage)
(1949)
Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner
as Clara Bow
(1933)
Hoopla
as Lou
(1933)
The Film Parade
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1932)
Call Her Savage
as Nasa Springer
(1931)
No Limit
as Helen 'Bunny' O'Day
(1931)
The House That Shadows Built
as (archive footage)
(1931)
Kick In
as Molly Hewes
(1930)
True to the Navy
as Ruby Nolan
(1930)
Paramount on Parade
as Herself
(1930)
Her Wedding Night
as Norma Martin
(1930)
Love Among the Millionaires
as Pepper Whipple
(1929)
Dangerous Curves
as Pat Delaney
(1929)
The Wild Party
as Stella Ames
(1929)
The Saturday Night Kid
as Mayme Barry
(1928)
Red Hair
as Bubbles McCoy
(1928)
Ladies of the Mob
as Yvonne
(1928)
The Fleet's In
as Trixie Deane
(1928)
Three Week Ends
as Gladys O'Brien
(1927)
Wings
as Mary Preston
(1927)
It
as Betty Lou Spence
(1927)
Children of Divorce
as Kitty Flanders
(1927)
Hula
as Hula Calhoun
(1927)
Get Your Man
as Nancy Worthington
(1927)
Rough House Rosie
as Rosie O'Reilly
(1926)
Mantrap
as Alverna
(1926)
Shadow of the Law
as Mary Brophy
(1926)
Two Can Play
as Dorothy Hammis
(1926)
Fascinating Youth
as Clara Bow
(1926)
The Runaway
as Cynthia Meade
(1926)
Kid Boots
as Clara McCoy
(1926)
Dancing Mothers
as Kittens Westcourt
(1925)
The Primrose Path
as Marilyn Merrill
(1925)
My Lady of Whims
as Prudence Severn
(1925)
Kiss Me Again
as Grizette
(1925)
The Plastic Age
as Cynthia Day
(1925)
Eve's Lover
as Rena D'Arcy
(1925)
Free to Love
as Marie Anthony
(1925)
The Scarlet West
as Miriam
(1925)
Parisian Love
as Marie
(1925)
My Lady's Lips
as Lola Lombard
(1925)
Capital Punishment
as Delia Tate
(1925)
The Ancient Mariner
as Doris
(1925)
The Lawful Cheater
as Molly Burns
(1925)
The Keeper of the Bees
as Lolly Cameron
(1925)
The Best Bad Man
as Peggy Swain
(1925)
The Adventurous Sex
as The Girl
(1924)
Grit
as Orchid McGonigle
(1924)
Wine
as Angela Warriner
(1924)
This Woman
as Aline Sturdevant
(1924)
Poisoned Paradise
as Margot LeBlanc
(1924)
Empty Hearts
as Rosalie
(1924)
Daughters of Pleasure
as Lila Millas
(1924)
Black Lightning
as Martha Larned
(1924)
Helen's Babies
as Alice Mayton
(1923)
Enemies of Women
as Dancing Girl (uncredited)
(1923)
Enemies of Women
as Girl Dancing on Table
(1923)
Maytime
as Alice Tremaine
(1923)
Black Oxen
as Janet Ogelthorpe
(1923)
The Daring Years
as Mary
(1923)
(1922)
Beyond the Rainbow
as Virginia Gardener
(1922)
Down to the Sea in Ships
as 'Dot' Morgan