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Clara Bow
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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 succe…
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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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2025
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Movie Self (archive footage, as Mary Preston)
- 2012
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2011
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Movie Herself (archive footage)
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2010
Sigrid Holmquist
Movie Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
- 2010
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2007
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2002
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
Movie (archive footage)
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1999
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
Movie Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
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1995
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1995
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1995
The Casting Couch
Movie
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1988
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
Movie (archive footage) (uncredited)
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1986
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
Movie archive footage
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1981
The Muppets Go to the Movies
Movie Mary Preston (archive footage) (uncredited)
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1953
Yesterday and Today
Movie (archive footage)
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1949
Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner
Movie Clara Bow
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1933
Hoopla
Movie Lou
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1933
The Film Parade
Movie (archive footage) (uncredited)
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1932
Call Her Savage
Movie Nasa Springer
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1931
The House That Shadows Built
Movie (archive footage)
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1931
Kick In
Movie Molly Hewes
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1931
No Limit
Movie Helen 'Bunny' O'Day
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1930
Her Wedding Night
Movie Norma Martin
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1930
Love Among the Millionaires
Movie Pepper Whipple
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1930
True to the Navy
Movie Ruby Nolan
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1930
Paramount on Parade
Movie Herself
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1929
The Saturday Night Kid
Movie Mayme Barry
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1929
Dangerous Curves
Movie Pat Delaney
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1929
The Wild Party
Movie Stella Ames
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1928
Three Week Ends
Movie Gladys O'Brien
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1928
The Fleet's In
Movie Trixie Deane
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1928
Ladies of the Mob
Movie Yvonne
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1928
Red Hair
Movie Bubbles McCoy
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1927
Get Your Man
Movie Nancy Worthington
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1927
Hula
Movie Hula Calhoun
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1927
Wings
Movie Mary Preston
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1927
Rough House Rosie
Movie Rosie O'Reilly
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1927
Children of Divorce
Movie Kitty Flanders
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1927
It
Movie Betty Lou Spence
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1926
Kid Boots
Movie Clara McCoy
