Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1905-07-29
Day of Death
1965-09-27
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.
Filmography (76)
Hodgepodge
2025
Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess
2012
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
2011
Sigrid Holmquist
2010
Flappers, Speakeasies, and the Birth of Modern Culture
2010
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
2002
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
1999
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
1995
The Casting Couch
1995
100 Years at the Movies
1994
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
1988
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
1986
Yesterday and Today
1953
