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Clara Gordon Bow (/ b oʊ /; 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 film It brought her global fame and the nickname "The It Girl". [1]
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Rough House Rosie is a 1927 American silent romantic comedy film produced and released by Paramount Pictures and directed by Frank Strayer. The film is a starring vehicle for Clara Bow who was then Paramount's most popular actress. Reed Howes, a model turned actor, is Bow's leading man.
Huggins, who grew up in Kansas City, Kansas, found a lost silent film featuring the actress known as “The It Girl.” It’s a comedy short — just 11 minutes long — called “The Pill ...
The 1927 film Wings, in which she co-starred with Charles "Buddy" Rogers, won the first Academy Award for Best Picture in 1929. [6] Paramount initially released it as a silent film, to accommodate smaller regional theaters that were not yet equipped for sound. They would later release a sound version, informally referred to as a "talkie".
It (stylized in quotation marks) is a 1927 American silent film directed by Clarence G. Badger, [a] and starring Clara Bow. It is based on the serialised novella of the same name, [ 4 ] republished in "It" and Other Stories (1927), [ 5 ] by Elinor Glyn , who adapted the story and appears in the film as herself.
The Plastic Age is a 1925 American black-and-white silent romantic comedy film directed by Wesley Ruggles and starring Clara Bow, Donald Keith, and Gilbert Roland. [2] The film was based on a best-selling novel from 1924 of the same name, written by Percy Marks, a Brown University English instructor who chronicled the life of the fast-set of that university and used the fictitious Sanford ...
Wine is a 1924 American silent melodrama film directed by Louis J. Gasnier, produced and released by Universal Pictures under their 'Jewel' banner. [1] The film, which featured Clara Bow in her first starring role, is currently classified as lost .