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First Name

Clara

Last Name

Bow

Birthday

1905-07-29

Height

63.5

Build

Slim

Eye Color

Brown - Dark

Hair Color

Dyed Red

Birthplace

Brooklyn, New York, USA

Zodiac Sign

Leo

Died

1965-09-27

Place of Death

West Los Angeles, California

Cause of Death

Heart Attack

Ethnicity

White

Nationality

American

Gender

Female

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Role ID

Actor/Actress, Soundtrack

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Later to become the personification of the flaming Roaring Twenties, Clara Bow was born and brought up in near poverty in Brooklyn, New York. She won a photo beauty contest which started a movie career of some 56 feature films. Best known as the uninhibited flapper, she reached the top as the "It Girl" in 1927. With the advent of sound and the Depression`s disfavorable attitude towards Jazz-age extravagances, her popularity faded. Also. adding to her problems, were gambling debts, unpaid taxes and several sensational public court battles involving alienation of affections and embezzlement (by her secretary.) She then married cowboy star Rex Bell at age 26 and retired from the screen at age 28. Plagued by personal crises, a weight problem and mental instability, she never made another film. She died in 1965.

Full Name at Birth

Clara Gordon Bow

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Claim to Fame

WAMPAS Baby Star of 1924, It (1927)

Distinctive Feature

Red Hair

Father

Robert Bow

Mother

Sarah Gordon

Friend

John Gilbert, Edith Head, Elinor Glyn, Daisy De Voe, Lina Basquette

Biography (Print)

Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild [1988] (David Stenn), The It Girl : The Incredible Story of Clara Bow [1976] (Joe Morella), Complicated Women: Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood [2001] (Mick LaSalle)

Biographical Movie

Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl [1999], "Biography: Clara Bow: Hollywood's Silent Sexpot" [2003]

Portrayed In

Return To Babylon [2008]

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Wikipedia Text

Clara Gordon Bow (July 29, 1905 – September 27, 1965) was an American actress who rose to stardom in silent film during the 1920s. While she claimed to have been 16 years old (and born in 1905) when she won the personality contest which started her career, she was actually only 14 at the time (born in 1907, a fact reflected on her grave marker). It is not known whether studio executives or her early biographers were aware of her true age, but the 1905 birthdate claim was the one publicly accepted as she began her film career in 1922, thus allowing her to live and work as an adult. This discrepancy forced her to change the dates of events in her childhood.

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Middle Name

Gordan

Occupation Text

Actress

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