Clemence Dane

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Clemence Dane

Clemence Dane (birth name: Winifred Ashton ; born February 21, 1888 in Blackheath , England , † March 28, 1965 in London ) was a British writer and screenwriter who won the Oscar for best original story at the 1947 Academy Awards .

Life

Winifred Ashton took her stage name Clemence Dane after the Church of St Clement Danes in the City of Westminster .

In 1917 she published with Regiment of Women her first novel , the numerous other novels, but also on Broadway mentioned stage works such as A Bill of Divorcement (1921), Will Shakespeare (1921), The Way Things Happen (1924), Granite (1927) Mariners (1927), Come of Age (1934) and L'Aiglon (1934) followed.

A Bill of Divorcement was made into a film by Denison Clift with Constance Binney , Fay Compton and Malcolm Keen as early as 1922 . Over the following decades she wrote the templates and scripts for over twenty films and television series . For 1928 in London premiered drama Adam's Opera created Richard Addinsell the music.

In 1947 she won the Oscar for Best Original Story for Perfect Strangers (1945) by Alexander Korda with Robert Donat , Deborah Kerr and Glynis Johns .

For the golden wedding anniversary of the actor couple Lewis Casson and Sybil Thorndike , she wrote the piece Eighty in the Shade especially in 1959 , in the premiere of which the couple appeared together. Once in the 1950s, their pieces L'Aiglon , Will Shakespeare and Till Time Shall End for the BBC - TV Movie series BBC Sunday-Night Theater were processed, her novel was last Broome Stages 1966 filmed eight-part TV series.

Noël Coward , who referred to her as "a gallant old girl", used Clemence Dane as a model for the character of Madame Arcati in his 1941 play Blithe Spirit .

Publications

  • 1917: Regiment of women
  • 1919: Legend
  • 1921: Will Shakespeare
  • 1921: A bill of divorcement
  • 1923: Shivering Shocks, or, the hiding place
  • 1924: The way things happen
  • 1925: Naboth's vineyard
  • 1926: granite
  • 1926: The women's side
  • 1927: Mariners
  • 1927: A traveler returns
  • 1928: Adam's opera
  • 1930: Printer's devil
  • 1929: The King waits
  • 1930: Tradition and Hugh Walpole
  • 1931: Broome stages
  • 1932: Recapture
  • 1932: Wild Decembers
  • 1934: Moonlight is silver
  • 1939: The arrogant history of White Ben
  • 1940: cousin Muriel
  • 1940: England's darling
  • 1942: The saviors
  • 1943: The lion and the unicorn
  • 1944: He brings great news
  • 1947: Call home the heart
  • 1959: Eighty in the shade
  • 1961: Approaches to drama
  • 1961: The collected plays of Clemence Dane
  • 1964: The godson
  • 1964: London has a garden
  • 1970: The moon is feminine
  • 1970: The Babyons
  • 1971: Enter Sir John

Filmography (selection)

Awards

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personal data
SURNAME Dane, Clemence
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ashton, Winifred (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British screenwriter and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Blackheath , Kent, England, United Kingdom
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1965
Place of death London , England, UK