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Journalist, dramatist, magazine editor, U.S. representative from Connecticut, and U.S. ambassador to Italy. Born Ann Clare Boothe; married George Tuttle Brokaw, 1923; divorced, 1929; married Henry Robinson Luce, 1935.
Government official; interviewee married Henry R. Luce; interviewee d. 1987.
Journalist, dramatist, magazine editor, U.S. representative from Connecticut, and U.S. ambassador to Italy. Born Anne Clare Boothe; married George Tuttle Brokaw, 1923; divorced, 1929; married Henry Robinson Luce, 1935.
Anne Clare Boothe was born in New York City, April 10, 1903. Her father was a violinist and businessman and her mother had been a dancer. Clare studied for a short while at the Clare Tree Major's School of the Theatre in New York. During the teens and through the twenties she was very active in the Suffrage movement. In 1923 she married George Tuttle Brokaw, a clothing manufacturer. They divorced in 1929. In 1930 she became Associate editor for Vanity Fair. Between 1934 and 1940, after she resigned from working with Vanity Fair, she wrote plays that were produced on Broadway. Some of her plays were made into movies. During her career as a playwright she met and married Henry R. Luce, the publisher of Time and Fortune. In 1940 she wrote and published a book entitled "Europe in the spring" about her travels in Europe just as the Second World War was breaking out. By 1942 she was fully involved in wartime politics and ran for and was elected as a Representative in Congress for Connecticut's Fourth District. She also wrote the screenplay for a movie focusing on the lives of two nuns, "Come to the stable". This received an Oscar nomination for Best Motion Picture of the year 1949. She was the second woman to be the ambassador to Italy (from 1953 to 1957). She remained in the political sphere the rest of her life. Clare Boothe Luce died in Washington, DC on October 9, 1987.
Playwright, journalist, editor of Vanity, 1931-1934; Republican congresswoman from Connecticut, 1943-1947; ambassador to Italy, 1953-1957.
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