Clara Bow: Discovering the "It" Girl (1999)

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.

Cast (30)CrewGenresDetailsReleasesMediaAwards

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)

Victor Fleming

Self (archive footage)

John Gilbert

Self (archive footage)

Elinor Glyn

Self - Author of 'It' (archive footage)

Jean Harlow

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

Donald Keith

Self (from The Plastic Age [1925]) (archive footage)

Tom Kennedy

Self (from Mantrap [1926]) (archive footage)

Bela Lugosi

Self (archive footage)

Marilyn Monroe

Self (archive footage)

Edna May Oliver

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

Esther Ralston

Self (archive footage)

Gilbert Roland

Self / Various Roles (archive footage)

Ernest Torrence

Self (from Mantrap [1926]) (archive footage)

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