Clara Bow
American actress (1905-1965) · United States · On the map · Actors · Died at 60
Clara Gordon Bow was an American actress who rose to stardom during the silent film era of the 1920s and successfully made the transition to "talkies" in 1929. Her appearance as a plucky shopgirl in the 1927 film It brought her global fame and the nickname "The It Girl".
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HooplaFilm, Lou1932
Call Her SavageFilm, Nasa Springer1931
Kick InFilm, Molly Hewes1930
Her Wedding NightFilm, Norma Martin1927
Children of DivorceFilm, Kitty Flanders1926
Dancing MothersFilm, Kittens Westcourt1925
Capital PunishmentFilm, Delia Tate1923
Black OxenFilm, Janet Ogelthorpe1922
Down to the Sea in ShipsFilm, 'Dot' Morgan1905Born29 July 1905People around Clara
Adolph Zukor Produced Wings, Hula and Children of Divorce
Jesse Louis Lasky Produced Wings, Hula and Children of Divorce
Frank Tuttle Directed Paramount on Parade and Kid Boots
B. P. Schulberg Produced Wings, The Plastic Age and Hula
Frank Lloyd Directed Children of Divorce and Hoop-La
Louis J. Gasnier Directed Wine (1924), directed Maytime (1923)
Dorothy Arzner Directed Paramount on Parade and The Wild Party
Clarence G. Badger Produced It and Red Hair
James P. Hogan Directed Capital Punishment and Black Lightning
Gary Cooper Also in Wings, It and Children of Divorce
Donald Keith Also in Free to Love and My Lady of Whims
Hope Loring Wrote Wings, Get Your Man and Helen's Babies
Ernst Lubitsch Directed Kiss Me Again and Paramount on Parade
Victor Fleming Directed Hula and Mantrap
Josef von Sternberg Directed It and Children of Divorce
William A. Wellman Directed Wings (1927)
Charles Rogers Also in Wings and Paramount on Parade
A. Edward Sutherland Directed Paramount on Parade (1930)
Richard Arlen Also in Paramount on Parade (1930)
Frederica Sagor Maas Wrote It, The Plastic Age and Hula
George Marion, Jr. Wrote Red Hair, Rough House Rosie and It
Louis D. Lighton Wrote It, Children of Divorce and Helen's Babies
Jack Oakie Also in Paramount on Parade and The Fleet's In
Lloyd Corrigan Wrote Red Hair and The Saturday Night Kid
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Filmography 40
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Television 1
Media & music
![Bow was chosen the foremost "baby" by WAMPAS.[45]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/WAMPAS_baby_stars_1924.JPG/500px-WAMPAS_baby_stars_1924.JPG)
![Bow comforting Ethel Shannon in Maytime (1923), which had been classified as a lost film until a partial copy was found in New Zealand in 2009[53]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/CBpic_Maytime_recv_201005XX.png/500px-CBpic_Maytime_recv_201005XX.png)
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Bow came to personify the Roaring Twenties and is described as its leading sex symbol.
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