Clara Bow
Acting
77
Acting Credits
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 Ma...
Known For
Wings
Mary Preston
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Self (archive footage)
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
(archive footage)
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Hoopla
Lou
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
The Muppets Go to the Movies
Mary Preston (archive footage) (uncredited)
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Self (archive footage)
Filmography
Hodgepodge
2025
as Self (archive footage, as Mary Preston)
Clara Bow: Hollywood's Lost Screen Goddess
2012
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
2011
as Herself (archive footage)
Sigrid Holmquist
2010
as Sigrid Holmquist (archive footage)
Flappers, Speakeasies, and the Birth of Modern Culture
2010
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007
as Self (archive footage)
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
2002
as (archive footage)
Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl
1999
as Self / Various Roles (archive footage)
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
1995
as Self (archive footage)
The Casting Couch
1995
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995
as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
1988
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
1986
as archive footage
The Muppets Go to the Movies
1981
as Mary Preston (archive footage) (uncredited)
Yesterday and Today
1953
as (archive footage)
Screen Snapshots 1860: Howdy, Podner
1949
as Clara Bow
Hoopla
1933
as Lou
The Film Parade
1933
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Call Her Savage
1932
as Nasa Springer
No Limit
1931
as Helen 'Bunny' O'Day
Kick In
1931
as Molly Hewes
The House That Shadows Built
1931
as (archive footage)
True to the Navy
1930
as Ruby Nolan
Love Among the Millionaires
1930
as Pepper Whipple
Her Wedding Night
1930
as Norma Martin
Paramount on Parade
1930
as Herself
The Wild Party
1929
as Stella Ames
Dangerous Curves
1929
as Pat Delaney
The Saturday Night Kid
1929
as Mayme Barry
Ladies of the Mob
1928
as Yvonne
Red Hair
1928
as Bubbles McCoy
Three Week Ends
1928
as Gladys O'Brien
The Fleet's In
1928
as Trixie Deane
Wings
1927
as Mary Preston
It
1927
as Betty Lou Spence
Rough House Rosie
1927
as Rosie O'Reilly
Hula
1927
as Hula Calhoun
Get Your Man
1927
as Nancy Worthington
Children of Divorce
1927
as Kitty Flanders
Mantrap
1926
as Alverna
Dancing Mothers
1926
as Kittens Westcourt
Kid Boots
1926
as Clara McCoy
The Runaway
1926
as Cynthia Meade
Shadow of the Law
1926
as Mary Brophy
Fascinating Youth
1926
as Clara Bow
Two Can Play
1926
as Dorothy Hammis
Parisian Love
1925
as Marie
Free to Love
1925
as Marie Anthony
My Lady of Whims
1925
as Prudence Severn
The Plastic Age
1925
as Cynthia Day
Capital Punishment
1925
as Delia Tate
The Primrose Path
1925
as Marilyn Merrill
Kiss Me Again
1925
as Grizette
The Best Bad Man
1925
as Peggy Swain
My Lady's Lips
1925
as Lola Lombard
The Keeper of the Bees
1925
as Lolly Cameron
The Ancient Mariner
1925
as Doris
The Scarlet West
1925
as Miriam
The Adventurous Sex
1925
as The Girl
The Lawful Cheater
1925
as Molly Burns
Eve's Lover
1925
as Rena D'Arcy
This Woman
1924
as Aline Sturdevant
Poisoned Paradise
1924
as Margot LeBlanc
Helen's Babies
1924
as Alice Mayton
Daughters of Pleasure
1924
as Lila Millas
Black Lightning
1924
as Martha Larned
Empty Hearts
1924
as Rosalie
Wine
1924
as Angela Warriner
Grit
1924
as Orchid McGonigle
Black Oxen
1923
as Janet Ogelthorpe
Maytime
1923
as Alice Tremaine
The Pill Pounder
1923
The Daring Years
1923
as Mary
Enemies of Women
1923
as Dancing Girl (uncredited)
Enemies of Women
1923
as Girl Dancing on Table
Down to the Sea in Ships
1922
as 'Dot' Morgan
Beyond the Rainbow
1922
as Virginia Gardener