

Clara Bow
ActorFrom 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.
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Hodgepodge
2025
Self (archive footage, as Mary Preston)

Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess
2012

Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
2011
Herself (archive footage)

Sigrid Holmquist
2010
Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)

Flappers, Speakeasies, and the Birth of Modern Culture
2010

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007
Self (archive footage)

Edith Head: The Paramount Years
2002
(archive footage)

Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
1999
Self / Various Roles (archive footage)

Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
1995
Self (archive footage)

The Casting Couch
1995

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995
Self (archive footage)

Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
1988
(archive footage) (uncredited)

Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
1986
archive footage

Yesterday and Today
1953
(archive footage)

Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner
1949
Clara Bow

Hoopla
1933
Lou

The Film Parade
1933
(archive footage) (uncredited)

Call Her Savage
1932
Nasa Springer

No Limit
1931
Helen 'Bunny' O'Day

Kick In
1931
Molly Hewes

The House That Shadows Built
1931
(archive footage)

True to the Navy
1930
Ruby Nolan

Love Among the Millionaires
1930
Pepper Whipple

Her Wedding Night
1930
Norma Martin

Paramount on Parade
1930
Herself

The Wild Party
1929
Stella Ames

Dangerous Curves
1929
Pat Delaney

The Saturday Night Kid
1929
Mayme Barry

Ladies of the Mob
1928
Yvonne

Red Hair
1928
Bubbles McCoy

Three Week Ends
1928
Gladys O'Brien

The Fleet's In
1928
Trixie Deane

Wings
1927
Mary Preston

It
1927
Betty Lou Spence

Rough House Rosie
1927
Rosie O'Reilly

Hula
1927
Hula Calhoun

Get Your Man
1927
Nancy Worthington

Children of Divorce
1927
Kitty Flanders

Mantrap
1926
Alverna

Dancing Mothers
1926
Kittens Westcourt

Kid Boots
1926
Clara McCoy

The Runaway
1926
Cynthia Meade

Shadow of the Law
1926
Mary Brophy

Fascinating Youth
1926
Clara Bow

Two Can Play
1926
Dorothy Hammis

Parisian Love
1925
Marie

Free to Love
1925
Marie Anthony

My Lady of Whims
1925
Prudence Severn

The Plastic Age
1925
Cynthia Day

Capital Punishment
1925
Delia Tate

The Primrose Path
1925
Marilyn Merrill

Kiss Me Again
1925
Grizette

The Best Bad Man
1925
Peggy Swain

My Lady's Lips
1925
Lola Lombard

The Keeper of the Bees
1925
Lolly Cameron

The Ancient Mariner
1925
Doris

The Scarlet West
1925
Miriam

The Adventurous Sex
1925
The Girl

The Lawful Cheater
1925
Molly Burns

Eve's Lover
1925
Rena D'Arcy

This Woman
1924
Aline Sturdevant

Poisoned Paradise
1924
Margot LeBlanc

Helen's Babies
1924
Alice Mayton

Daughters of Pleasure
1924
Lila Millas

Black Lightning
1924
Martha Larned

Empty Hearts
1924
Rosalie

Wine
1924
Angela Warriner

Grit
1924
Orchid McGonigle

Black Oxen
1923
Janet Ogelthorpe

Maytime
1923
Alice Tremaine

The Pill Pounder
1923

The Daring Years
1923
Mary

Enemies of Women
1923
Dancing Girl (uncredited), Girl Dancing on Table

Down to the Sea in Ships
1922
'Dot' Morgan

Beyond the Rainbow
1922
Virginia Gardener





