Clara Bow
Hollywood's original "It" Girl and the first true sex symbol of the silver screen, silent-era actress Clara Bow enjoyed unprecedented stardom. Emerging from the tenements of Brooklyn in the early 1920s, Bow was signed by independent movie producer B. P. Schulberg and placed in projects like "Black Oxen" (1923) and "Wine" (1924), films that established the free-spirited actress as Hollywood's "perfect flapper." Efforts like "The Plastic Age" (1925), "Mantrap" (1926), "Wings" (1927) and the career-defining "It" (1927) transformed Bow not only into the biggest movie star of her age, but a bona fide screen legend as well. Unlike many of her fellow silent film stars, the advent of the "talkie" failed to knock Bow off her throne as the reigning movie queen, and sound pictures like "The Wild Party" (1929) and "True to the Navy" (1930) continued to attract audiences in droves. After struggling with the pressures of stardom for some time, Bow chose to leave film forever in 1933. Though nearly forgotten, Bow's legacy was kept alive through film restoration efforts and her influence clearly evident in the style choices of many top contemporary female entertainers decades after her departure from the screen.
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Clara Bow
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gaslight Follies | Unknown (Character) | - | 1945 |
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Hoopla | Lou (Character) | - | 1933 |
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Call Her Savage | Nasa 'Dynamite' Springer (Character) | - | 1932 |
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No Limit | Helen 'Bunny' O'Day (Character) | - | 1931 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kick In | Molly Hewes (Character) | - | 1931 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Her Wedding Night | Norma Martin (Character) | - | 1930 |
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Paramount on Parade | Self | - | 1930 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | True to the Navy | Unknown (Character) | - | 1930 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Saturday Night Kid | Mayme (Character) | - | 1929 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dangerous Curves | Pat Delaney (Character) | - | 1929 |
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The Wild Party | Stella Ames (Character) | - | 1929 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Fleet's In | Trixie Deane (Character) | - | 1928 |
85% | No Score Yet | Ladies of the Mob | Yvonne (Character) | - | 1928 |
60% | No Score Yet | Three Week-Ends | Unknown (Character) | - | 1928 |
100% | No Score Yet | Red Hair | "Bubbles" McCoy (Character) | - | 1928 |
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Wings | Mary Preston (Character) | - | 1927 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Children of Divorce | Kitty Flanders (Character) | - | 1927 |
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It | Betty Lou Spence (Character) | - | 1927 |
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Hula | Hula Calhoun (Character) | - | 1927 |
75% | No Score Yet | Rough House Rosie | Rosie O'Reilly (Character) | - | 1927 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Get Your Man | Nancy Worthington (Character) | - | 1927 |
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Dancing Mothers | Kittens Westcourt (Character) | - | 1926 |
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Mantrap | Alverna (Character) | - | 1926 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kid Boots | Clara McCoy (Character) | - | 1926 |
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The Plastic Age | Cynthia Day (Character) | - | 1926 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Free to Love | Marie Anthony (Character) | - | 1925 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My Lady of Whims | Prudence Severn (Character) | - | 1925 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Best Bad Man | Peggy Swain (Character) | - | 1925 |
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Parisian Love | Marie (Character) | - | 1925 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Poisoned Paradise | Margot LeBlanc (Character) | - | 1924 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wine | Angela Warriner (Character) | - | 1924 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Pill Pounder | His Daughter (Character) | - | 1923 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Black Oxen | Janet Ogelthorpe (Character) | - | 1923 |
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Down to the Sea in Ships | "Dot" Morgan (Character) | - | 1922 |