Clara Bow
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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 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.
Acting
Movie
Wings
as Mary Preston
1927
Movie
It
as Betty Lou Spence
1927
Movie
Call Her Savage
as Nasa Springer
1932
Movie
100 Years at the Movies
1994
Movie
Children of Divorce
as Kitty Flanders
1927
Movie
Hula
as Hula Calhoun
1927
Movie
The Wild Party
as Stella Ames
1929
Movie
The Plastic Age
as Cynthia Day
1925
Movie
Mantrap
as Alverna
1926
Movie
Get Your Man
as Nancy Worthington
1927
Movie
Parisian Love
as Marie
1925
Movie
The Saturday Night Kid
as Mayme Barry
1929
Movie
My Lady of Whims
as Prudence Severn
1925
Movie
Kid Boots
as Clara McCoy
1926
Movie
Hoopla
as Lou
1933
Movie
Helen's Babies
as Alice Mayton
1924
Movie
Paramount on Parade
as Herself
1930
Movie
Down to the Sea in Ships
as 'Dot' Morgan
1922
Movie
Black Oxen
as Janet Ogelthorpe
1923
Movie
No Limit
as Helen 'Bunny' O'Day
1931
Movie
Dangerous Curves
as Pat Delaney
1929
Movie
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
as archive footage
1986
Movie
The Primrose Path
as Marilyn Merrill
1925
Movie
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
2007