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Clara Gordon Bow
The 'It' Girl
Clara Bow
Acting
Biography
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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 …
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Hodgepodge
as Self (archive footage, as Mary Preston)
Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
as Herself (archive footage)
Sigrid Holmquist
as Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
Flappers, Speakeasies, and the Birth of Modern Culture
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
as (archive footage)
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
as Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
The Casting Couch
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
as Self (archive footage)