When Bow's mother was 16, she fell from a second-story window and suffered a severe head injury. And it made him very unhappy, for he worshipped her always." "I do not think my mother ever loved my father", she said. By the time Clara was four and a half, her father was out of work, and between 19, the family lived at 14 different addresses, but seldom outside Prospect Heights, with Clara's father often absent. everything seemed to go wrong for him, poor darling". all the natural qualifications to make something of himself, but didn't . Bow said that her father, Robert Walter Bow (1874–1959), "had a quick, keen mind . We were both given up, but somehow we struggled back to life." īow's parents were descended from English and Scotch-Irish immigrants who had come to America the generation before. Years later, Clara wrote: "I don't suppose two people ever looked death in the face more clearly than my mother and I the morning I was born. In addition to the risky pregnancy, a heat wave besieged New York in July 1905, and temperatures peaked around 100 ☏ (38 ☌). Despite the warning, Sarah became pregnant with Clara in late 1904. Her mother, Sarah Frances Bow (née Gordon, 1880–1923), was told by a doctor not to become pregnant again, for fear the next baby might die as well. īow was her parents' third child, but her two older sisters, born in 19, had died in infancy. The 1930 census indicates 1906, and on her gravestone of 1965, the inscription says 1907, but 1905 is the accepted year of her birth by a majority of sources. In US census records, enumerated April 15, 1910, and January 7, 1920, Bow's age is stated 4 and 14 years, respectively. Her birth year, according to the US Censuses of 19, was 1905. In September 1965, Bow died of a heart attack at the age of 60.īow was born in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn at 697 Bergen Street, in a "bleak, sparsely furnished room above dilapidated Baptist Church". Her final film, Hoop-La, was released in 1933. Two years after marrying actor Rex Bell in 1931, Bow retired from acting and became a rancher in Nevada. At the apex of her stardom, she received more than 45,000 fan letters in a single month (January 1929). Her presence in a motion picture was said to have ensured investors, by odds of almost two-to-one, a "safe return". She was named first box-office draw in 19 and second box-office draw in 19. īow appeared in 46 silent films and 11 talkies, including hits such as Mantrap (1926), It (1927), and Wings (1927). Bow came to personify the Roaring Twenties and is described as its leading sex symbol. Her appearance as a plucky shopgirl in the film It brought her global fame and the nickname " The It Girl". However, before you do that please check and make sure that your questions or concerns haven't already been answered here.Clara Gordon Bow ( / b oʊ/ J– 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. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about /r/WTF you can contact us by clicking the ' message the moderators' link, located on the lower right hand side of the page. This includes banning users for spamming, shitposting, or causing trouble. *The moderators of /r/WTF reserve the right to moderate posts and comments at their discretion, with regard to their perception of the suitability of said posts and comments for this subreddit. (Hover to view - mobile users tap here) Shout Outs: Novelty accounts and bots are not allowed. Your post/comment will be removed if it is racist, sexist, vitriolic, or overly crude.
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