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Clare Boothe Luce (née Ann Clare Boothe; March 10, 1903 [1] [2] – October 9, 1987) was an American writer, politician, diplomat, and public conservative figure. A versatile author, she is best known for her 1936 hit play The Women , which had an all-female cast.
Clare Boothe Luce: Nominated Best Art Direction-Set Decoration – Black-and-White: Art Direction: Lyle R. Wheeler and Joseph C. Wright; Set Decoration: Thomas Little and Paul S. Fox: Nominated Best Cinematography – Black-and-White: Joseph LaShelle: Nominated Best Original Song "Through a Long and Sleepless Night" Music by Alfred Newman ...
With a few limitations, the Abbey and the Mepkin Gardens are open to the public on a daily basis. The monastery grounds include a graveyard containing the ashes of Henry Laurens, as well as the graves of John Laurens, Clare Boothe Luce, and Henry Luce. Its gardens are now known as the Mepkin Abbey Botanical Garden.
The Women is a 1936 American play, a comedy of manners by Clare Boothe Luce.Only women compose the cast. The original Broadway production, directed by Robert B. Sinclair, opened on December 26, 1936, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, where it ran for 657 performances with an all-female cast that included Margalo Gillmore, Ilka Chase, Betty Lawford, Jessie Busley, Phyllis Povah, Marjorie Main ...
The Clare Boothe Luce Award was established in 1991 by The Heritage Foundation, a Washington, D.C.–based public policy research institute, in memory of Clare Boothe Luce, an American ambassador and conservative U.S. congresswoman.
Clare Boothe Luce, American playwright and political activist; Dorothea Angela McElduff (1926–2013), Member of Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre and Dame of Malta; Mary McShain (née Mary J. Horstmann), great-niece of Bishop Ignatius F. Horstmann (the third Bishop of the Diocese of Cleveland); widow of John McShain
In 1981, Morris became the authorized biographer of Clare Boothe Luce (1903–1987), the playwright, congresswoman and diplomat. In 1997 she published the first volume of Luce's biography, Rage for Fame: The Ascent of Clare Boothe Luce. Gore Vidal described it in The New Yorker as "a model biography . . . of the sort that only real writers can ...
Abide with Me is a 1935 play by American playwright Clare Boothe Luce. Other main production staff include stager John Hayden and scenic designer P. Dodd Ackerman. The play ran a total of 36 times, from 21 November to December of that same year. [1]