Clara Bow

American actress

Photo by: Otto Dyar (1892-1988) · Public Domain · Wikimedia Commons

Born:July 29, 1905

Died:September 27, 1965

Age at death:60

Manner of death:Natural Causes

Cause of death:Myocardial Infarction

Zodiac Sign:Leo

Children:2

Born in:Brooklyn, United States

Buried in:United States

Languages:English

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WingsItHulaThe Plastic AgeKiss Me Again

Awards

star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (1960)

Clara Bow

American actress

Biography

Clara Gordon Bow (; July 29, 1905 – September 27, 1965) 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". Bow came to personify the Roaring Twenties and is described as its leading sex symbol. Bow appeared in 58 films, all but 11 of which were silent. Thirty-three are extant in their entirety, 14 are partially lost, and 11 are completely lost. Some hits include Mantrap (1926), It (1927), and Wings (1927). She was named the first box-office draw in 1928 and 1929 and the 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, in January 1929. After marrying actor Rex Bell in 1931, Bow retired from acting in 1933. Her final film, Hoop-La, was released in 1933. She then became a rancher in Nevada. Bow had two children. In September 1965, Bow died of a heart attack at the age of 60.

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Clara Bow by Otto Dyar, 1933

1930s portrait of film actress Clara Bow

TITLE: Clara Bow, half-length portrait, standing, facing right, in backless costume, still from the American film My Lady of Whims (1925). CALL NUMBER: LC-B2- 6486-3[P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ggbain-38839 (digital file from original negative) RIGHTS INFORMATION: No known restrictions on publication. MEDIUM: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. CREATED/PUBLISHED: [no date recorded on caption card] CREATOR: Bain News Service, publisher. NOTES: Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). General information about the Bain Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain Temp. note: Batch eight loaded. FORMAT: Glass negatives. REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print DIGITAL ID: (digital file from original neg.) ggbain 38839 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.38839 CARD #: ggb2006014244

Clara Bow in Call Her Savage

Scanned and cropped publicity shot from lost Clara Bow film Rough House Rosie (1927).

Référence bibliographique : Mondial, 4579 Appartient à l’ensemble documentaire : Pho20MPP Image de presse Couverture : 15 octobre 1932 Langue : français Éditeur : diff. par l'Agence Mondial (Paris)