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Clara Bow

1905 - 1965

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Clara Gordon Bow (; 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". Bow came to personify the Roaring Twenties and is described as its leading sex symbol.Bow appeared in 46 silent films and 11 talkies, including hits such as Mantrap (1926), It (1927), and Wings (1927). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Clara Bow has received more than 3,694,518 page views. Her biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Clara Bow is the 1,023rd most popular actor (up from 1,100th in 2019), the 1,792nd most popular biography from United States (up from 1,986th in 2019) and the 487th most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.69

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 49

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Clara Bows by language

Over the past year Clara Bow has had the most page views in the with 722,521 views, followed by Spanish (48,608), and French (32,544). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Esperanto (372.97%), Uzbek (173.94%), and Simple English (118.21%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Clara Bow ranks 1,023 out of 13,578. Before her are Sterling Hayden, Mary McDonnell, Djimon Hounsou, Lena Olin, Chadwick Boseman, and Sydney Chaplin. After her are Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Hugh Griffith, Elizabeth Montgomery, Youn Yuh-jung, Libuše Šafránková, and Jim Caviezel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Clara Bow ranks 69. Before her are Emílio Garrastazu Médici, Barnett Newman, Piet Hein, Sada Abe, Wolfram Sievers, and Pedro Petrone. After her are Gareth Jones, Guy Mollet, Erwin Chargaff, Federica Montseny, Takeo Fukuda, and André Jolivet. Among people deceased in 1965, Clara Bow ranks 37. Before her are Adolf Schärf, Frederick Fleet, David O. Selznick, Mehdi Ben Barka, Lauri Törni, and Sydney Chaplin. After her are Hans Knappertsbusch, Angelica Balabanoff, Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i, Aksel Sandemose, Carl Oberg, and Bernard Baruch.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Clara Bow ranks 1,792 out of 20,380. Before her are Mary McDonnell (1952), Frank Oppenheimer (1912), Gregg Popovich (1949), James Oliver Curwood (1878), Chadwick Boseman (1977), and Robert Smithson (1938). After her are Ken Mattingly (1936), Larry Scott (1938), Elizabeth Montgomery (1933), Temple Grandin (1947), Eugene Fama (1939), and "Weird Al" Yankovic (1959).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Clara Bow ranks 487. Before her are Eva Mendes (1974), Donna Reed (1921), Ian Somerhalder (1978), Sterling Hayden (1916), Mary McDonnell (1952), and Chadwick Boseman (1977). After her are Elizabeth Montgomery (1933), Jim Caviezel (1968), Bill Pullman (1953), Billy Zane (1966), Al Lettieri (1928), and Paul L. Smith (1936).

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Television and Movie Roles

Wings
Mary Preston
Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I. Devoted best friends, their mutual love of the girl eventually threatens their bond. Meanwhile, a hometown girl who's the lovestruck lifelong next door neighbor of one of them pines away.
Aug 12o 19277.205 / 10
100 Years at the Movies
Commemorates the centennial of American movies with a montage of clips and music scores from the most important movies of the century.
Dec 31o 19947.476 / 10
It
Betty Lou Spence
A flapper shopgirl woos her rich boss with animal magnetism, otherwise known as "it."
Feb 5o 19276.885 / 10