Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl

Documentary 1999 · 1h 2m

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

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

Cast

20 people

Courtney Love Narrator (voice)

David Stenn Self - Clara's Biographer

Budd Schulberg Self - Author and Screenwriter

C Catherine Mulligan Self - Clara's Friend

R Rex Bell Jr. Self - Clara's Son

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

Leonard Maltin Self - Film Critic and Historian

A.C. Lyles Self - Producer at Paramount

Marion Shilling Self

M Marge Marshall Self - Clara's Friend

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

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

Rex Bell Self (archive footage)

Clara Bow Self / Various Roles (archive footage)

Louise Brooks Self (archive footage)

Gary Cooper Self / Various Roles (archive footage)

Richard Cromwell Self (from Hoopla [1933]) (archive footage)

Marceline Day Self (from The Wild Party [1929]) (archive footage)