Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl

Gary Cooper as Self / Various Roles (archive footage) Edna May Oliver as Self (from The Saturday Night Kid [1929]) (archive footage) Gilbert Roland as Self / Various Roles (archive footage) Charles 'Buddy' Rogers as Self - Clara's Co-Star in 'Wings' (voice) Victor Fleming as Self (archive footage) John Gilbert as Self (archive footage) Jean Harlow as Self (from The Saturday Night Kid [1929]) (archive footage) Leonard Maltin as Self - Film Critic and Historian Clara Bow as Self / Various Roles (archive footage) Courtney Love as Narrator (voice) Jean Arthur as Self (from The Saturday Night Kid [1929]) (archive footage) Marceline Day as Self (from The Wild Party [1929]) (archive footage) Tom Kennedy as Self (from Mantrap [1926]) (archive footage) Béla Lugosi as Self (archive footage) Marilyn Monroe as Self (archive footage) Esther Ralston as Self (archive footage) A.C. Lyles as Self - Producer at Paramount Rex Bell as Self (archive footage) Ernest Torrence as Self (from Mantrap [1926]) (archive footage) David Stenn as Self - Clara's Biographer Budd Schulberg as Self - Author and Screenwriter Baby Peggy as Self - Clara's Co-Star in 'Helen's Babies' Marion Shilling as Self Richard Cromwell as Self (from Hoopla [1933]) (archive footage) Elinor Glyn as Self - Author of 'It' (archive footage) Donald Keith as Self (from The Plastic Age [1925]) (archive footage) Louise Brooks as Self (archive footage)