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Status
Released
Release
1999
Runtime
1h 2m
"With scenes from more than 25 films, a documentary portrait of the screen's first sex symbol"
Clara Bow: Discovering the 'It' Girl features scenes from 25 of her films, as well as interviews with family members and acquaintances.
30 Cast Members
Courtney Love
Narrator (voice)
David Stenn
Self - Clara's Biographer
Budd Schulberg
Self - Author and Screenwriter
Catherine Mulligan
Self - Clara's Friend
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
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)
Victor Fleming
Self (archive footage)
John Gilbert
Self (archive footage)
