Clare Booth

Quick Facts

Full Name	Clare Booth
Occupation	Former Member of the U.S. House
Date Of Birth	Mar 10, 1903(1903-03-10)
Age	121
Date Of Death	October 9, 1987, Washington, D.C.
Birthplace	New York
Country	United States
Horoscope	Pisces

Clare Booth Biography

Clare Booth is one of the most popular and richest Former Member Of The U.S. House who was born on March 10, 1903 in New York, United States.

Ann Clare Boothe Luce (March 10, 1903 – October 9, 1987) was an American author, politician, U.S. Ambassador and public conservative figure. She was the first American woman appointed to a major ambassadorial post abroad. A versatile author, she is best known for her 1936 hit play The Women, which had an all-female cast. Her writings extended from drama and screen scenarios to fiction, journalism and war reportage. She was the wife of Henry Luce, publisher of Time, Life, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated.

She attended the cathedral schools in Garden City and Tarrytown, New York, graduating first in her class in 1919 at 16. Her ambitious mother’s initial plan for her was to become an actress. Clare understudied Mary Pickford on Broadway at age 10, and had her Broadway debut in Mrs. Henry B. Harris’ production of “The Dummy” in 1914, a detective comedy. She then had a small part in Thomas Edison’s 1915 movie, The Heart of a Waif. After a tour of Europe with her mother and stepfather, Dr. Albert E. Austin, whom Ann Boothe married in 1919, she became interested in the women’s suffrage movement, and she was hired by Alva Belmont to work for the National Woman’s Party in Washington, D.C. and Seneca Falls, New York.

Clare Booth Net Worth

Clare Booth is one of the richest Former Member of the U.S. House from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Clare Booth 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Luce was born Ann Clare Boothe in New York City on March 10, 1903, the second child of Anna Clara Schneider (also known as Ann Snyder Murphy, Ann Boothe, and Ann Clare Austin) and William Franklin Boothe (also known as “John J. Murphy” and “Jord Murfe”). Her parents were not married and would separate in

1912. Her father, a sophisticated man and a brilliant violinist, instilled in his daughter a love of literature, if not of music, but had trouble holding a job and spent years as a travelling salesman. Parts of young Clare’s childhood were spent in Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee, Chicago, Illinois, and Union City, New Jersey as well as New York City. Clare Boothe had an elder brother, David Franklin Boothe.

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Who is Clare Booth Dating?

According to our records, Clare Booth married to Henry Luce , George Tuttle Brokaw. As of December 1, 2023, Clare Booth’s is not dating anyone.

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On November 23, 1935, she married Henry Luce, the publisher of Time, Life, and Fortune. She thereafter called herself Clare Boothe Luce, a frequently misspelled name that was often confused with that of her exact contemporary Claire Luce, a stage and film actress. As a professional writer, Luce continued to use her maiden name.

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After the failure of her initial stage effort, the marital melodrama Abide With Me (1935), she rapidly followed up with a satirical comedy, The Women. Deploying a cast of no fewer than 40 actresses who discussed men in often scorching language, it became a Broadway smash in 1936 and, three years later, a successful Hollywood movie. Toward the end of her life, Luce claimed that for half a century, she had steadily received royalties from productions of The Women all around the world. Later in the 1930s, she wrote two more successful, but less durable plays, also both made into movies: Kiss the Boys Goodbye and Margin for Error. The latter work “presented an all-out attack on the Nazis’ racist philosophy” Its opening night in Princeton, New Jersey, on October 14, 1939, was attended by Albert Einstein and Thomas Mann. Otto Preminger directed and starred in both the Broadway production and screen adaptation.

When was Clare Boothe Luce born?

March 10, 1903

Where is Clare Boothe Luce buried?

Yet, as accomplished and well-traveled as his life was, Henry Luce and his wife, Clare Boothe Luce, chose to be buried 40 miles from Mount Pleasant in Mepkin Abbey.

What did Clare Booth Luce do?

Clare Boothe Luce (née Ann Clare Boothe; March 10, 1903 – October 9, 1987) was an American writer, politician, U.S. ambassador, and public conservative figure. A versatile author, she is best known for her 1936 hit play The Women, which had an all-female cast.