Clara Bow

Born: 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.


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Wings

as Mary Preston
Released: 1927-08-12

Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps...

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The Love Goddesses

as (archive footage)
Released: 1965-03-03

This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the...

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It

as Betty Lou Spence
Released: 1927-02-05

A flapper shopgirl woos her rich boss with animal magnetism, otherwise known as "it."

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Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1986-04-19

Her story is well-known — the lonely child who yearned for affection and approval which she...

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The Casting Couch

as (archive footage)
Released: 1995-01-01

An unprecedented anthology of never-before-told true stories by and about some of Hollywood's...

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The Plastic Age

as Cynthia Day
Released: 1925-12-15

Hugh Carver is an athletic star and a freshman at Prescott College. He falls in love with...

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Children of Divorce

as Kitty Flanders
Released: 1927-04-25

A young flapper tricks her childhood sweetheart into marrying her. He really loves another...

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The Wild Party

as Stella Ames
Released: 1929-04-06

Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party...

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Paramount on Parade

as Herself
Released: 1930-04-22

This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars,...

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Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2007-05-23

Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was,...

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Galas de la Paramount

as Self (from original version)
Released: 1930-07-31

Spanish-language version of PARAMOUNT ON PARADE (q.v.), with new sequences of interest to...

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Fascinating Youth

as Clara Bow
Released: 1926-03-17

Playboy Teddy Ward wants to marry Jeannie King, an artist, but his father wants him to marry...

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Enemies of Women

as Dancing Girl (uncredited)
Released: 1923-04-15

The dashing but arrogant Prince Michael Fedor Lubimoff has to flee Tsarist Russia after falling...

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Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

as Herself (archive footage)
Released: 2011-04-03

Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith...

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Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl

as Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
Released: 1999-06-14

Clara Bow: Discovering the 'It' Girl features scenes from 25 of her films, as well as interviews...

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This Woman

as Aline Sturdevant
Released: 1924-11-02

This Woman is a 1924 American drama film directed by Phil Rosen, written by Louis D. Lighton and...

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Hoopla

as Lou
Released: 1933-11-30

A hula dancer at a carnival sets out to seduce the naive son of the show's manager.

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Edith Head: The Paramount Years

as (archive footage)
Released: 2002-11-26

A tribute to the legendary costume designer Edith Head during her years providing costumes for...

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True to the Navy

as Ruby Nolan
Released: 1930-05-25

Ruby is a counter girl at the San Diego Soda Shop with a habit of being a girlfriend to Sailors...

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Black Oxen

as Janet Ogelthorpe
Released: 1923-12-29

A Manhattan playboy falls for a mysterious European woman, whom he notices is an exact double...

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The Saturday Night Kid

as Mayme Barry
Released: 1929-10-25

Mayme and sister Janie are salesgirls in Ginsberg's Department Store. Mayme is in love with...

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Call Her Savage

as Nasa Springer
Released: 1932-11-24

A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him....

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Parisian Love

as Marie
Released: 1925-08-01

Armand and Marie survive in the streets until charitable (and wealthy) scientist Pierre Marcel...

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The Fleet's In

as Trixie Deane
Released: 1928-09-15

A girl who works in a dance hall falls in love with a sailor, but he has the wrong idea of what...

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No Limit

as Helen 'Bunny' O'Day
Released: 1931-01-15

Theater usherette Bunny O'Day (Clara Bow) inadvertently becomes hostess of a private gambling...

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Eve's Lover

as Rena D'Arcy
Released: 1925-07-06

Austin Starfield has his greedy eye on a steel mill belonging to Eve Burnside. He persuades an...

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Harlow: The Blonde Bombshell

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1993-02-06

Actress Sharon Stone hosts this documentary about the life and career of 1930s sex symbol Jean...

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Yesterday and Today

as (archive footage)
Released: 1953-12-02

A compilation of early-day silent films that serves as a glimpse back to the formative days of...

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Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1995-01-01

From the A&E "Biography" series, a review of the birth, development and cinematic history of...

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My Lady of Whims

as Prudence Severn
Released: 1925-12-09

Aspiring author Prudence "Prue" Severn leaves her staid home for the wild life in New York's...

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Kid Boots

as Clara McCoy
Released: 1926-10-03

A salesman is helped out of a jam with an angry customer by a wealthy playboy. In return, he...

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The Best Bad Man

as Peggy Swain
Released: 1925-11-29

Visiting his vast properties incognito, Hugh Nichols (Tom Mix) discovers that his land agent...

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Mantrap

as Alverna
Released: 1926-07-24

A sexy young manicurist living with her older backwoodsman husband in a small Canadian town...

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The House That Shadows Built

as (archive footage)
Released: 1931-07-08

The House That Shadows Built (1931) is a short feature, roughly 48 minutes long, from Paramount...

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Get Your Man

as Nancy Worthington
Released: 1927-12-06

A young American girl in Paris falls in love with a handsome nobleman, but he is about to wed in...

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The Runaway

as Cynthia Meade
Released: 1926-04-04

A movie actress, mistakenly thinking she has killed a fellow actor, goes on the run and finds...

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Her Wedding Night

as Norma Martin
Released: 1930-09-28

Norma Martin is an American movie star in France trying to avoid the attention of men. Going to...

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Dangerous Curves

as Pat Delaney
Released: 1929-07-12

A young bareback rider in a circus is in love with a trapeze artist, but he has two problems: he...

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Rough House Rosie

as Rosie O'Reilly
Released: 1927-05-14

A poor but ambitious young girl is determined to crash high society, but isn't prepared for the...

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Wine

as Angela Warriner
Released: 1924-08-31

John Warriner, facing financial ruin, accepts the proposal of a bootlegger, Benedict, to...

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Hula

as Hula Calhoun
Released: 1927-08-28

The daughter of a pineapple plantation owner in Hawaii sets her sights on a married English...

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The Film Parade

as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 1933-01-01

Pioneer filmmaker J. Stuart Blackton was intrigued by the idea of a film about the history of...

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Kiss Me Again

as Grizette
Released: 1925-08-01

Gaston Fleury's wife, Loulou, takes a perfunctory interest in music but a deeper one in a...

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Dancing Mothers

as Kittens Westcourt
Released: 1926-03-01

An unfaithful husband and his daughter go on nightly club outings, leaving the mother at home....

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Maytime

as Alice Tremaine
Released: 1923-11-17

Ottilie Van Zandt is forced to wed her cousin, despite her love for Richard Wayne, the...

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Kick In

as Molly Hewes
Released: 1931-05-22

Chick Hewes is released from prison and finds work as an accountant. Two years later, Chick's...

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Red Hair

as Bubbles McCoy
Released: 1928-03-10

A free-spirited young girl has three middle-aged admirers, each of whom sees her from a...

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The Adventurous Sex

as The Girl
Released: 1925-06-12

A young man spends so much time at work on his airplane that he neglects his girl. She goes out...

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Two Can Play

as Dorothy Hammis
Released: 1926-02-21

Dorothy Hammis (Bow), the daughter of wealthy financier John Hammis (Fawcett), has chosen as her...

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The Daring Years

as Mary
Released: 1923-09-15

Cabaret dancer Suzie La Motte is in love with Jim Moran, a boxer, but she tempts a young man...

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The Ancient Mariner

as Doris
Released: 1925-12-27

Doris Matthews, a beautiful, innocent young girl, forsakes her sweetheart, Joel Barlowe, in...

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Empty Hearts

as Rosalie
Released: 1924-09-15

Milt Kimberlin is a down-on-his luck horse owner, but Rosalie, a cabaret performer (the lively...

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My Lady's Lips

as Lola Lombard
Released: 1925-07-01

A newspaper publisher finds out that his wild daughter has fallen in with a ring of gamblers. A...

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Sigrid Holmquist

as Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
Released: 2010-10-08

The story of Swedish silent film actress Sigrid Holmquist's life (1899-1970), by using the...

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Beyond the Rainbow

as Virginia Gardener
Released: 1922-02-19

Marion Taylor is secretary to Edward Mallory, a wealth Wall Street businessman. She supports her...

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Black Lightning

as Martha Larned
Released: 1924-12-08

A WWI drama in which a Red Cross dog saves a man.

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Poisoned Paradise

as Margot LeBlanc
Released: 1924-02-29

Margot Le Blanc loses her small fortune at Monte Carlo and makes the acquaintance of Hugh...

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Grit

as Orchid McGonigle
Released: 1924-01-07

Two former childhood gang members, "Kid" Hart and Orchid McGonigle, attempt to go straight,...

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Three Week Ends

as Gladys O'Brien
Released: 1928-12-08

A sexy young nightclub singer sets her sights on a young man she believes to be a millionaire...

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Love Among the Millionaires

as Pepper Whipple
Released: 1930-07-05

A young waitress falls for the son of a railroad tycoon, and finds herself hobnobbing with the...

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100 Years at the Movies

as uncredited
Released: 1994-04-14

Commemorates the centennial of American movies with a montage of clips and music scores from the...

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The Scarlet West

as Miriam
Released: 1925-07-26

Cardelanche, the son of an Indian chief, returns from the East to find himself rejected by his...

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The Primrose Path

as Marilyn Merrill
Released: 1925-09-14

Alcoholic playboy Wallace MacDonald (as Bruce Armstrong) would like to sober up and become more...

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Helen's Babies

as Alice Mayton
Released: 1924-10-11

A young man, who has vowed never to marry and doesn't particularly like children, is left in...

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Ladies of the Mob

as Yvonne
Released: 1928-06-30

A dead criminal's daughter falls in love with a small-time crook and tries to get him to reform...

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The Lawful Cheater

as Molly Burns
Released: 1925-07-17

Disguised as a boy, a young woman gets an inner-city street gang back on the straight and narrow...

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Free to Love

as Marie Anthony
Released: 1925-11-19

An ex-reformatory girl seeks a new life with the help of a fatherly judge and an earnest young...

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The Keeper of the Bees

as Lolly Cameron
Released: 1925-09-06

A bee keeper does his best to help the army.

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Down to the Sea in Ships

as 'Dot' Morgan
Released: 1922-11-21

Being the story of the Morgans, a 19th-century Massachusetts whaling family, their tightly-knit...

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Capital Punishment

as Delia Tate
Released: 1925-01-01

This is not a Clara Bow vehicle, and yet it is clearly the aspect/asset of Clara Bow which...

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Daughters of Pleasure

as Lila Millas
Released: 1924-06-15

Newly rich Mark Hadley drifts from his old-fashioned wife into a secret liason with Lila Millas,...

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Shadow of the Law

as Mary Brophy
Released: 1926-01-24

A young woman is framed and sent to prison for a crime she didn't commit. When she is released,...

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The Pill Pounder

as uncredited
Released: 1923-04-23

Charlie is a small town druggist trying to wait on trade and play a social game of poker in the...

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