Clara Bow

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1905-07-29 (60 years old)

Deathday

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 prese...

Acting

1927

Wings

as Mary Preston

1953

Yesterday and Today

as (archive footage)

1924

This Woman

as Aline Sturdevant

1929

The Wild Party

as Stella Ames

1927

It

as Betty Lou Spence

1926

Mantrap

as Alverna

1933

Hoopla

as Lou

1924

Poisoned Paradise

as Margot LeBlanc

1932

Call Her Savage

as Nasa Springer

1993

Harlow: The Blonde Bombshell

as Self (archive footage)

1925

1931

No Limit

as Helen 'Bunny' O'Day

1929

Dangerous Curves

as Pat Delaney

1929

1930

True to the Navy

as Ruby Nolan

1927

Rough House Rosie

as Rosie O'Reilly

1930

1925

Free to Love

as Marie Anthony

1925

My Lady of Whims

as Prudence Severn

1925

Capital Punishment

as Delia Tate

1925

The Plastic Age

as Cynthia Day

1930

Her Wedding Night

as Norma Martin

1926

Dancing Mothers

as Kittens Westcourt

1926

Kid Boots

as Clara McCoy

1927

Hula

as Hula Calhoun

1927

Get Your Man

as Nancy Worthington

1923

Black Oxen

as Janet Ogelthorpe

1924

Helen's Babies

as Alice Mayton

1995

Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons

as Self (archive footage)

1928

1925

The Primrose Path

as Marilyn Merrill

1926

The Runaway

as Cynthia Meade

1923

Maytime

as Alice Tremaine

1924

Daughters of Pleasure

as Lila Millas

1925

Kiss Me Again

as Grizette

2002

2011

Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

as Herself (archive footage)

1986

Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend

as Self (archive footage)

1924

Black Lightning

as Martha Larned

1925

The Best Bad Man

as Peggy Swain

1930

1926

Shadow of the Law

as Mary Brophy

1928

Red Hair

as Bubbles McCoy

1928

Three Week Ends

as Gladys O'Brien

1927

Children of Divorce

as Kitty Flanders

1931

Kick In

as Molly Hewes

1925

My Lady's Lips

as Lola Lombard

1922

1922

Beyond the Rainbow

as Virginia Gardener

1928

The Fleet's In

as Trixie Deane

1926

Fascinating Youth

as Clara Bow

1926

Two Can Play

as Dorothy Hammis

1925

The Keeper of the Bees

as Lolly Cameron

1933

The Film Parade

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

2010

Sigrid Holmquist

as Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)

1924

Empty Hearts

as Rosalie

1931

The House That Shadows Built

as (archive footage)

1923

1924

Grit

as Orchid McGonigle

1924

Wine

as Angela Warriner

1925

1925

Eve's Lover

as Rena D'Arcy

1925

The Lawful Cheater

as Molly Burns

1925

1923

Enemies of Women

as Dancing Girl (uncredited)

1999

Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl

as Self / Various Roles (archive footage)

1923

Enemies of Women

as Girl Dancing on Table

2025

Hodgepodge

as Self (archive footage, as Mary Preston)

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