She appeared in 46 silent films and 11 talkies her movies sold the most box office tickets in 1928 and 1929 and and again in 1927 and 1930 Her performance in films was said to have set out sponserse she first got famous when we was in a silent film in the early 1920s she soon became the it girl of the 1920s Clara Bow was born in Prospect Heights Brooklyn on July 29 in 1905 she had two older sisters born in 1903 and 194 but sadly they died when they were infants She said her dad had a quick keen mind all the natural qualifications to make something of himself but didn't everything seemed to go wrong for him poor darling Morella Joe Since he could never stay at a job for very long by the time she was four her dad was out of work because of that between the years of 1905 and 1923 the Bow family lived at 14 different places with Clara s father often absent Morella Joe Her family was poor after moving so much they were staying in a run down apartment Clara was living with an abusive father and a violent mentally unstable mother Barber Nicholas
