Clara Bow

Actor Jul 29 (died age 60) Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA 1922–2025 (103 year career)

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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 Ma…

Known For

Film

Wings

Mary Preston

Film

It

Betty Lou Spence

Film

100 Years at the Movies

7.5 1994

Film

Call Her Savage

Nasa Springer

Film

Children of Divorce

Kitty Flanders

Film

Hula

Hula Calhoun

Film

The Wild Party

Stella Ames

Film

Kid Boots

Clara McCoy

Filmography

Acting (75)

Movies (75)

Hodgepodge

2025

as Self (archive footage, as Mary Preston)

Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess

2012

Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

2011

as Herself (archive footage)

9.0

Flappers, Speakeasies, and the Birth of Modern Culture

2010

Sigrid Holmquist

2010

as Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)

7.0

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

2007

as Self (archive footage)

4.3

Edith Head: The Paramount Years

2002

as (archive footage)

7.5

Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl

1999

as Self / Various Roles (archive footage)

7.7

The Casting Couch

1995

8.3

Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons

1995

as Self (archive footage)

8.0

100 Years at the Movies

1994

7.5

Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies

1988

Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend

1986

as archive footage

7.5

Yesterday and Today

1953

as (archive footage)

Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner

1949

as Clara Bow

Hoopla

1933

as Lou

6.3

The Film Parade

1933

as (archive footage) (uncredited)

Call Her Savage

1932

as Nasa Springer

5.8

The House That Shadows Built

as (archive footage)

Kick In

as Molly Hewes

No Limit

as Helen 'Bunny' O'Day

True to the Navy

as Ruby Nolan

Paramount on Parade

as Herself

Her Wedding Night

as Norma Martin

Love Among the Millionaires

as Pepper Whipple

Dangerous Curves

as Pat Delaney

The Wild Party

as Stella Ames

The Saturday Night Kid

as Mayme Barry

Red Hair

as Bubbles McCoy

Three Week Ends

as Gladys O'Brien

Ladies of the Mob

as Yvonne

The Fleet's In

as Trixie Deane

Wings

as Mary Preston

Hula

as Hula Calhoun

as Betty Lou Spence

Get Your Man

as Nancy Worthington

Children of Divorce

as Kitty Flanders

Rough House Rosie

as Rosie O'Reilly

Kid Boots

as Clara McCoy

Mantrap

as Alverna

Dancing Mothers

as Kittens Westcourt

Two Can Play

as Dorothy Hammis

Fascinating Youth

as Clara Bow

Shadow of the Law

1926

as Mary Brophy

The Runaway

1926

as Cynthia Meade

The Lawful Cheater

1925

as Molly Burns

Free to Love

1925

as Marie Anthony

5.0

The Adventurous Sex

1925

as The Girl

My Lady's Lips

1925

as Lola Lombard

The Scarlet West

1925

as Miriam

Capital Punishment

1925

as Delia Tate

5.5

Eve's Lover

1925

as Rena D'Arcy

The Plastic Age

as Cynthia Day

Parisian Love

as Marie

The Primrose Path

as Marilyn Merrill

The Best Bad Man

as Peggy Swain

The Ancient Mariner

1925

as Doris

My Lady of Whims

1925

as Prudence Severn

4.9

Kiss Me Again

1925

as Grizette

The Keeper of the Bees

1925

as Lolly Cameron

Helen's Babies

as Alice Mayton

Empty Hearts

as Rosalie

Grit

as Orchid McGonigle

Black Lightning

1924

as Martha Larned

This Woman

1924

as Aline Sturdevant

Wine

1924

as Angela Warriner

10.0

Daughters of Pleasure

1924

as Lila Millas

Poisoned Paradise

1924

as Margot LeBlanc

Enemies of Women

1923

as Dancing Girl (uncredited)

6.5

The Daring Years

1923

as Mary

Black Oxen

as Janet Ogelthorpe

Maytime

as Alice Tremaine

The Pill Pounder

Beyond the Rainbow

as Virginia Gardener

Down to the Sea in Ships

1922

as 'Dot' Morgan

5.7