Clara Gordon Bow (July 29, 1905 – September 27, 1965), rose to stardom in the silent film era of the 1920s. Her performance in the film, "It" brought her the nickname "The It Girl." Bow came to personify the roaring twenties and is described as its leading sex symbol. She performed in 46 silent films and 11 talkies. Some of her best known films: Mantrap (1926), It (1927) and Wings (1927). Bow ended her career with the film, Hoop-La (1933), and became a rancher in Nevada. In 1931 she married actor Rex Bell, later politician and Lieutenant Governor, with whom she had two sons.
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Honors: For her contributions to the motion picture industry, Bow was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
In 1994, she was honored with an image on a United States postage stamp designed by caricaturist Al Hirschfeld.
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