Clara Bow
Acting
Born 1905-07-29
Died 1965-09-27
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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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.
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Wings
Hodgepodge
Hoopla
Three Week Ends
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
Kid Boots
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Flappers, Speakeasies, and the Birth of Modern Culture
Paramount on Parade
Call Her Savage
Hula
Wine
The Plastic Age
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
The Wild Party
The House That Shadows Built
Get Your Man
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
The Casting Couch
Helen's Babies
The Film Parade
The Saturday Night Kid
This Woman
Mantrap
Her Wedding Night
Dangerous Curves
Enemies of Women
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
My Lady's Lips
Eve's Lover
Red Hair
Love Among the Millionaires
Parisian Love
Children of Divorce
Grit
It
The Scarlet West
Black Oxen
Poisoned Paradise
The Daring Years
Rough House Rosie
Two Can Play
My Lady of Whims
Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess
True to the Navy
Kick In
Yesterday and Today
Ladies of the Mob
Sigrid Holmquist
The Primrose Path
Shadow of the Law
Free to Love
Dancing Mothers
Maytime
Fascinating Youth
The Fleet's In
The Lawful Cheater
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