Clara Gordon Bow
| Sign | Leo |
| Born | Jul 29, 1905 Brooklyn, NY |
| Died | Sep 27, 1965 West Los Angeles, CA |
| Age | Died at 60 |
| Final Resting PlaceForest Lawn (Glendale) | |
Clara Bow | |
| Job | Actress |
| Years active | 1921-1933 |
| Top Roles | Betty Lou, Yvonne, Lou, Nasa Springer, Hula Calhoun |
| Top Genres | Drama, Silent Films, Romance, Comedy, Musical, Crime |
| Top Topics | Romance (Comic), Pre-Code Cinema, Romance (Drama) |
| Top Collaborators | B.P. Schulberg (Producer), Gary Cooper, Richard Arlen, William A. Wellman (Director) |
| Shares birthday with | Theda Bara, William Powell, Thelma Todd see more.. |
Clara Bow Overview:
Legendary actress, Clara Bow, was born Clara Gordon Bow on Jul 29, 1905 in Brooklyn, NY. Bow died at the age of 60 on Sep 27, 1965 in West Los Angeles, CA and was laid to rest in Forest Lawn (Glendale) Cemetery in Glendale, CA.
MINI BIO:
Known variously as the "It" girl, Jazz Baby, and the Brooklyn Bonfire, Clara was a vivacious, petite redhead, who typified America in the mid-1920s. Her abrasive love life hardly matched her screen image, which soon palled with the public with the coming of sound. Married (from 1931) to cowboy star Rex Bell (1905-1962), she was reclusive and in poor health for most of her later life. She died from a heart attack. (Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Film Stars).HONORS and AWARDS:
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She was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Motion Pictures. In addition, Bow was immortalized on a US postal stamp in 1994. Bow was never nominated for an Academy Award.
BlogHub Articles:
Silents are Golden: Silent Superstars: The ?It? Girl
By Lea Stans on Apr 23, 2024 From Classic Movie Hub BlogSilent Superstars: The ?It? Girl , the ‘It’ Girl When novelist, screenwriter, and supreme arbiter of taste Elinor Glyn declared in 1927 that had ?It?–her term for a rare type of magnetism?the public must have heartily agreed. After all, the beauti... Read full article
Flicker Alley: and Gary Cooper in Children of Divorce (1927)
By KC on Dec 21, 2016 From Classic MoviesTo contemplate and Gary Cooper together onscreen is to fear these irresistibly watchable stars will cancel each other out. After all, what else could happen when two performers who consistently steal scenes in other films appear with each other? In the 1927 silent Children of Divorce, noth... Read full article
Girl, Reconstructed: in GET YOUR MAN (1927)
By Will McKinley on Nov 16, 2015 From Cinematically Insane?Everything you?re going to see today has never been screened before,? film historian David Stenn said on Sunday?at the Museum of Modern Art. These are words most film fans only dream of hearing. But when they’re spoken by?the?biographer of Silent Era superstar , and the program he... Read full article
A Small Update and Scandal
By Rhonda0731 on Jan 7, 2015 From Smitten Kitten VintageIt has been two days since my last post, and I felt it was time for a new one. This is more of an update on this blog and I have some exciting news to share. I signed up for my first ever blogathon!! I am really excited about it. It is being hosted by three classic movie bloggers whom I have been fo... Read full article
MANTRAP: WARNING! USES WEAPONS OF MASS SEDUCTION!
By FlickChick on Aug 19, 2014 From A Person in the DarkThis is my entry in the Build Your Own Blogathon, hosted by The Classic Film & TV Cafe, featuring 20 bloggers over 20 days. MANTRAP Alverna does her daily flirting exercises. A girls has to keep in shape! No, is not the mantrap of the title (yeah right). Mantrap is the name of t... Read full article
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Clara Bow Quotes:
Nasa Springer: I was practicing in case I ever get married.
Mary Preston: D'you know what you can do when you see a shooting star?
John "Jack" Powell: No, what?
Mary Preston: You can kiss the girl you love.
Kitty Flanders: You'd make a marvelous second husband but you are too much of a luxury for a poor girl's first husband.
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