Clara Bow
Birthday: 1905-07-29
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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 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
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Yesterday and Today
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This Woman
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The Wild Party
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It
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Mantrap
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Hoopla
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Poisoned Paradise
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Call Her Savage
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100 Years at the Movies
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Parisian Love
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No Limit
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Dangerous Curves
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The Saturday Night Kid
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True to the Navy
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Rough House Rosie
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Love Among the Millionaires
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Free to Love
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My Lady of Whims
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Capital Punishment
This is not a Clara Bow vehicle, and yet it is clearly the aspect/asset of Clara Bow which elevates ...
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The Plastic Age
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Her Wedding Night
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Dancing Mothers
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Kid Boots
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Hula
The daughter of a pineapple plantation owner in Hawaii sets her sights on a married English engineer...
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Get Your Man
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Black Oxen
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Helen's Babies
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Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
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Ladies of the Mob
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The Primrose Path
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The Runaway
A movie actress, mistakenly thinking she has killed a fellow actor, goes on the run and finds hersel...
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Maytime
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Daughters of Pleasure
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Kiss Me Again
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Edith Head: The Paramount Years
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Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
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The Best Bad Man
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Paramount on Parade
This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, cre...
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Shadow of the Law
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Red Hair
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Three Week Ends
A sexy young nightclub singer sets her sights on a young man she believes to be a millionaire playbo...
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Children of Divorce
A young flapper tricks her childhood sweetheart into marrying her. He really loves another woman, bu...
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Kick In
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My Lady's Lips
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Down to the Sea in Ships
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Beyond the Rainbow
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The Fleet's In
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Fascinating Youth
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Two Can Play
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The Keeper of the Bees
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The Film Parade
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Sigrid Holmquist
The story of Swedish silent film actress Sigrid Holmquist's life (1899-1970), by using the silent fi...
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The Ancient Mariner
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Empty Hearts
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Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
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The House That Shadows Built
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The Pill Pounder
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The Daring Years
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Grit
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Wine
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The Adventurous Sex
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Eve's Lover
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The Lawful Cheater
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The Scarlet West
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Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner
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Enemies of Women
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Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl
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Enemies of Women
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Hodgepodge
Andrew Richter shares odd celebrity encounters from his years of working in hotels....
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Flappers, Speakeasies, and the Birth of Modern Culture
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Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess
A documentary looking at the life, films, and troubled times of America's first sex symbol, screen a...
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