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Clara Bow

Born 29 July 1905 in Brooklyn, New York, USA, as Clara Gordon Bow.
Died 27 September 1965 in West Los Angeles, California, USA, of a heart attack.

Married actor George F. Beldon (Rex Bell) 3 December 1931 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, until his death; son, actor Anthony Beldon (Rex Anthony Bell Jr.) (born 1934); son, George Robert Beldon (later George Bell) (born 1938).

Clara Bow began film work in 1922, after having won a film part through a Motion Picture Magazine contest. Ultimately remembered as “The It Girl,” she worked for Whaling Film, Frank Lloyd, Warner Brothers, Arrow, Fitzgerald, Preferred, Schulberg, Famous Players-Lasky and Paramount Famous Lasky from 1922 through 1931, before retiring from Hollywood. Among her best-known films are Down to the Sea in Ships (1922), It (1927) and Wings (1927). Clara Bow briefly returned to the screen for 20th Century-Fox in 1932 through 1933.

Bow’s husband Rex Bell became lieutenant governor of Nevada in the 1930s, and later ran for the United States House of Representatives.

References: Website-IMDb; Website-Wikipedia.