Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl

Jun 14, 1999

1h 2m

★ 7.7

With scenes from more than 25 films, a documentary portrait of the screen's first sex symbol

Overview

Clara Bow: Discovering the 'It' Girl features scenes from 25 of her films, as well as interviews with family members and acquaintances.

Genres

Documentary

TV Movie

Production Companies

Timeline Films

UCLA Film and Television Archive

Turner Classic Movies

Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl Trailers

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Cast

Narrator (voice)

Courtney Love

Self - Clara's Biographer

David Stenn

Self - Author and Screenwriter

Budd Schulberg

Self - Clara's Friend

Catherine Mulligan

Self - Clara's Son

Rex Bell Jr.

Self - Clara's Co-Star in 'Helen's Babies'

Baby Peggy

Self - Film Critic and Historian

Leonard Maltin

Self - Producer at Paramount

A.C. Lyles

Self

Marion Shilling

Self - Clara's Friend

Marge Marshall

Self - Clara's Co-Star in 'Wings' (voice)

Charles 'Buddy' Rogers

Self (from The Saturday Night Kid [1929]) (archive footage)

Jean Arthur

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