Clara Bow
Acting
🎂 1905-07-29
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.
Cast credits(76)
Self (archive footage)
1986
1988
Self (archive footage)
2007
(archive footage)
2002
Peggy Swain
1925
Kitty Flanders
1927
Betty Lou Spence
1927
Mary Preston
1927
Self (archive footage, as Mary Preston)
2025
Gladys O'Brien
1928
Cynthia Meade
1926
Herself
1930
Clara Bow
1926
(archive footage)
1931
Lou
1933
Stella Ames
1929
Kittens Westcourt
1926
Pat Delaney
1929
Grizette
1925
Nasa Springer
1932
Ruby Nolan
1930
Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
1999
Self (archive footage)
1995
Margot LeBlanc
1924
Molly Hewes
1931
Bubbles McCoy
1928
Herself (archive footage)
2011
Pepper Whipple
1930
Helen 'Bunny' O'Day
1931
Dancing Girl (uncredited)
1923
Girl Dancing on Table
1923
Miriam
1925
Hula Calhoun
1927
Lila Millas
1924
Cynthia Day
1925
Mayme Barry
1929
Doris
1925
(archive footage) (uncredited)
1933
Self (archive footage)
1993
Mary Brophy
1926
Janet Ogelthorpe
1923
Rosie O'Reilly
1927
Yvonne
1928
Rena D'Arcy
1925
Nancy Worthington
1927
Prudence Severn
1925
2012
Norma Martin
1930
Marie
1925
1923
Lola Lombard
1925
Marilyn Merrill
1925
'Dot' Morgan
1922
Virginia Gardener
1922
Delia Tate
1925
Clara McCoy
1926
Alverna
1926
Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
2010
Mary
1923
Alice Mayton
1924
The Girl
1925
Alice Tremaine
1923
Rosalie
1924
Dorothy Hammis
1926
Aline Sturdevant
1924
Trixie Deane
1928
Marie Anthony
1925
(archive footage)
1953
Angela Warriner
1924
Martha Larned
1924
2010
Orchid McGonigle
1924
Lolly Cameron
1925
Molly Burns
1925
Clara Bow
1949
1994