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Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 29, 1905
Died
September 27, 1965
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Clara Gordon Bow
- The 'It' Girl
Clara Bow
0.6 Popularity
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
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Self (archive footage, as Mary Preston)
Hodgepodge
2025
9.0
Herself (archive footage)
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
2011
7.0
Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
Sigrid Holmquist
2010
4.9
Self (archive footage)
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007
7.5
(archive footage)
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
2002
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Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
1999
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Self (archive footage)
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
1995
7.5
100 Years at the Movies
1994
8.5
Self (archive footage)
Harlow: The Blonde Bombshell
1993
7.5
Self (archive footage)
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
1986
Credits
Hodgepodge
as Self (archive footage, as Mary Preston)
2025
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Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
as Herself (archive footage)
2011
9.0
Sigrid Holmquist
as Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
2010
7.0
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
2007
4.9
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
as (archive footage)
2002
7.5
Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
as Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
1999
7.7
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
as Self (archive footage)
1995
8.0
100 Years at the Movies
1994
7.5
Harlow: The Blonde Bombshell
as Self (archive footage)
1993
8.5
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
as Self (archive footage)
1986
7.5
Yesterday and Today
as (archive footage)
1953
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Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner
as Clara Bow
1949
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Hoopla
as Lou
1933
6.0
The Film Parade
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
1933
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Call Her Savage
as Nasa Springer
1932
5.9
The House That Shadows Built
as (archive footage)
1931
7.0
Kick In
as Molly Hewes
1931
6.0
No Limit
as Helen 'Bunny' O'Day
1931
6.0
Her Wedding Night
as Norma Martin
1930
6.0
Love Among the Millionaires
as Pepper Whipple
1930
6.0
True to the Navy
as Ruby Nolan
1930
7.0
Paramount on Parade
as Herself
1930
6.1
The Saturday Night Kid
as Mayme Barry
1929
4.4
Dangerous Curves
as Pat Delaney
1929
6.0
The Wild Party
as Stella Ames
1929
6.7
Three Week Ends
as Gladys O'Brien
1928
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The Fleet's In
as Trixie Deane
1928
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Ladies of the Mob
as Yvonne
1928
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Red Hair
as Bubbles McCoy
1928
7.0
Get Your Man
as Nancy Worthington
1927
6.4
Hula
as Hula Calhoun
1927
5.7
Wings
as Mary Preston
1927
7.2
Rough House Rosie
as Rosie O'Reilly
1927
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Children of Divorce
as Kitty Flanders
1927
5.9
It
as Betty Lou Spence
1927
6.9
Kid Boots
as Clara McCoy
1926
6.6
Mantrap
as Alverna
1926
5.9
The Runaway
as Cynthia Meade
1926
0.0
Fascinating Youth
as Clara Bow
1926
0.0
Dancing Mothers
as Kittens Westcourt
1926
6.7
Two Can Play
as Dorothy Hammis
1926
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Shadow of the Law
as Mary Brophy
1926
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The Ancient Mariner
as Doris
1925
0.0
The Plastic Age
as Cynthia Day
1925
5.9
My Lady of Whims
as Prudence Severn
1925
5.1
The Best Bad Man
as Peggy Swain
1925
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Free to Love
as Marie Anthony
1925
5.0
The Primrose Path
as Marilyn Merrill
1925
5.2
The Keeper of the Bees
as Lolly Cameron
1925
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Parisian Love
as Marie
1925
5.0
Kiss Me Again
as Grizette
1925
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The Scarlet West
as Miriam
1925
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The Lawful Cheater
as Molly Burns
1925
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Eve's Lover
as Rena D'Arcy
1925
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My Lady's Lips
as Lola Lombard
1925
0.0
The Adventurous Sex
as The Girl
1925
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Capital Punishment
as Delia Tate
1925
5.5
Black Lightning
as Martha Larned
1924
0.0
This Woman
as Aline Sturdevant
1924
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Helen's Babies
as Alice Mayton
1924
5.6
Empty Hearts
as Rosalie
1924
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Wine
as Angela Warriner
1924
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Daughters of Pleasure
as Lila Millas
1924
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Poisoned Paradise
as Margot LeBlanc
1924
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Grit
as Orchid McGonigle
1924
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Black Oxen
as Janet Ogelthorpe
1923
5.2
Maytime
as Alice Tremaine
1923
6.5
The Daring Years
as Mary
1923
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The Pill Pounder
1923
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Enemies of Women
as Dancing Girl (uncredited)
1923
5.2
Enemies of Women
as Girl Dancing on Table
1923
5.2
Down to the Sea in Ships
as 'Dot' Morgan
1922
5.1
Beyond the Rainbow
as Virginia Gardener
1922
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