Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
7/29/1905
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
Clara Gordon BowThe 'It' Girl
Clara Bow
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 ...
Known For
Hoopla
as Lou
The Plastic Age
as Cynthia Day
Wings
as Mary Preston
Get Your Man
as Nancy Worthington
It
as Betty Lou Spence
Grit
as Orchid McGonigle
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
Paramount on Parade
as Herself
Hula
as Hula Calhoun
Mantrap
as Alverna
Black Oxen
as Janet Ogelthorpe
Red Hair
as Bubbles McCoy
Capital Punishment
as Delia Tate
Dangerous Curves
as Pat Delaney
Children of Divorce
as Kitty Flanders
Call Her Savage
as Nasa Springer
Maytime
as Alice Tremaine
Wine
as Angela Warriner
Parisian Love
as Marie
Black Lightning
as Martha Larned
Career Timeline
2010
1931
1930
1929
1928
1927
1926
1925
The Ancient Mariner
as Doris
The Plastic Age
as Cynthia Day
My Lady of Whims
as Prudence Severn
The Best Bad Man
as Peggy Swain
Free to Love
as Marie Anthony
The Primrose Path
as Marilyn Merrill
The Keeper of the Bees
as Lolly Cameron
Parisian Love
as Marie
Kiss Me Again
as Grizette
The Scarlet West
as Miriam
The Lawful Cheater
as Molly Burns
Eve's Lover
as Rena D'Arcy
My Lady's Lips
as Lola Lombard
The Adventurous Sex
as The Girl
Capital Punishment
as Delia Tate