Clemence Dane
Clemence Dane (birth name: Winifred Ashton, born February 21, 1888 in Blackheath, England, † March 28, 1965 in London) was a British novelist and screenwriter, who won the Oscar for best original story at the Oscar ceremony in 1947.
Life
Winifred Ashton took her stage name Clemence Dane St Clement Danes after the church in the City of Westminster.
In 1917 she published with Regiment of Women her first novel, the numerous other novels, but also on Broadway listed Stage Works 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.
Already in 1922 was filmed with Constance Binney, Fay Compton and Malcolm Keen A Bill of Divorcement of Denison Clift. Over the following decades, she wrote the templates and screenplays for over twenty films and television series. For 1928, first performed in London drama Adam 's Opera Richard Addinsell created 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 of actor - couple Lewis Casson and Sybil Thorndike in 1959 she wrote the piece specifically Eighty in the Shade, in its world premiere, the couple had a common appearance. After their pieces L' Aiglon, Will Shakespeare and Till Time Shall End were processed for BBC television film series BBC Sunday - Night Theatre in the 1950s, her novel Broome Stages was filmed in 1966 as an eight-part television series last.
Noël Coward, who as "a gallant old girl " (, a gallant old girl ') called, Clemence Dane used as a model for the character of Madame Arcati in his 1941 published the play Blithe Spirit.