Clara Bow
Acting
- Born:
- 1905-07-29
- Died:
- 1965-09-27
- Place of birth:
- Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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
Filmography
Hodgepodge
Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Sigrid Holmquist
Flappers, Speakeasies, and the Birth of Modern Culture
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
The Casting Couch
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
The Muppets Go to the Movies
Hollywood
Yesterday and Today
Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner
Hoopla
The Film Parade
Call Her Savage
The House That Shadows Built
Kick In
No Limit
Her Wedding Night
Love Among the Millionaires
True to the Navy
Paramount on Parade
The Saturday Night Kid
Dangerous Curves
The Wild Party
Three Week Ends
The Fleet's In
Ladies of the Mob
Red Hair
Get Your Man
Hula
Wings
Rough House Rosie
Children of Divorce
It
Kid Boots
Mantrap
The Runaway
Fascinating Youth
Dancing Mothers
Two Can Play
Shadow of the Law
The Ancient Mariner
The Plastic Age
My Lady of Whims
The Best Bad Man
Free to Love
The Primrose Path
The Keeper of the Bees
Parisian Love
Kiss Me Again
The Scarlet West
The Lawful Cheater
Eve's Lover
My Lady's Lips