Clara Bow
Birthday
1905/07/29
Day of death
1965/09/27 (60 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Also know 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 Ma...Read more
Acting
(1927) Wings
as Mary Preston
(1953) Yesterday and Today
as (archive footage)
(1924) This Woman
as Aline Sturdevant
(1929) The Wild Party
as Stella Ames
(1927) It
as Betty Lou Spence
(1926) Mantrap
as Alverna
(1933) Hoopla
as Lou
(1924) Poisoned Paradise
as Margot LeBlanc
(1932) Call Her Savage
as Nasa Springer
(1993) Harlow: The Blonde Bombshell
as Self (archive footage)
(1994) 100 Years at the Movies
as ---
(1925) Parisian Love
as Marie
(1931) No Limit
as Helen 'Bunny' O'Day
(1929) Dangerous Curves
as Pat Delaney
(1929) The Saturday Night Kid
as Mayme Barry
(1930) True to the Navy
as Ruby Nolan
(1927) Rough House Rosie
as Rosie O'Reilly
(1930) Love Among the Millionaires
as Pepper Whipple
(1925) Free to Love
as Marie Anthony
(1925) My Lady of Whims
as Prudence Severn
(1925) Capital Punishment
as Delia Tate
(1925) The Plastic Age
as Cynthia Day
(1930) Her Wedding Night
as Norma Martin
(1926) Dancing Mothers
as Kittens Westcourt
(1926) Kid Boots
as Clara McCoy
(1927) Hula
as Hula Calhoun
(1927) Get Your Man
as Nancy Worthington
(1923) Black Oxen
as Janet Ogelthorpe
(1924) Helen's Babies
as Alice Mayton
(1995) Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
as Self (archive footage)
(1928) Ladies of the Mob
as Yvonne
(1925) The Primrose Path
as Marilyn Merrill
(1926) The Runaway
as Cynthia Meade
(1923) Maytime
as Alice Tremaine
(1924) Daughters of Pleasure
as Lila Millas
(1925) Kiss Me Again
as Grizette
(2002) Edith Head: The Paramount Years
as (archive footage)
(2011) Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
as Herself (archive footage)
(1986) Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
as Self (archive footage)
(1924) Black Lightning
as Martha Larned
(1925) The Best Bad Man
as Peggy Swain
(1930) Paramount on Parade
as Herself
(1926) Shadow of the Law
as Mary Brophy
(1928) Red Hair
as Bubbles McCoy
(1928) Three Week Ends
as Gladys O'Brien
(1927) Children of Divorce
as Kitty Flanders
(1931) Kick In
as Molly Hewes
(1925) My Lady's Lips
as Lola Lombard
(1922) Down to the Sea in Ships
as 'Dot' Morgan
(1922) Beyond the Rainbow
as Virginia Gardener
(1928) The Fleet's In
as Trixie Deane
(1926) Fascinating Youth
as Clara Bow
(1926) Two Can Play
as Dorothy Hammis
(1925) The Keeper of the Bees
as Lolly Cameron
(1933) The Film Parade
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
(2010) Sigrid Holmquist
as Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
(1925) The Ancient Mariner
as Doris
(1924) Empty Hearts
as Rosalie
(2007) Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
(1931) The House That Shadows Built
as (archive footage)
(1923) The Pill Pounder
as ---
(1923) The Daring Years
as Mary
(1924) Grit
as Orchid McGonigle
(1924) Wine
as Angela Warriner
(1925) The Adventurous Sex
as The Girl
(1925) Eve's Lover
as Rena D'Arcy
(1925) The Lawful Cheater
as Molly Burns
(1925) The Scarlet West
as Miriam
(1949) Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner
as Clara Bow
(1923) Enemies of Women
as Dancing Girl (uncredited)
(1999) Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
as Self / Various Roles (archive footage)