Playwright, novelist, first U.S. Congresswoman from Connecticut, Ambassador to Italy. Born Ann Clare Boothe in New York City to an ex-chorus girl and an itinerant musician who soon deserted his family, Clare and her younger brother knew poverty first-hand. Blessed with native intelligence, good looks and an ambitious mother, she was sent to the best schools her mother could afford, where she could meet the "right" people. In due course she met and married the wealthy George Tuttle Brokaw, with whom she had her only child, Anne. The marriage ended in divorce in 1929. She then went to work as an editor of Vanity Fair, traveling 72,000 miles as correspondent, and wrote the first of several plays, The Women. In 1935 she married Henry Luce, co-founder of Time Magazine and later Life Magazine, which she is credited with conceiving. She remained married to Luce until his death in 1967. In 1941 Luce agreed to run for political office, filling the seat held by her late step-father, Dr. Austin. She won the election. She was Time's war correspondent during World War II. Throughout her term she attacked President Roosevelt's foreign policy and management of the war effort. As the war ended, Luce issued a warning about the threat of aggression from the Soviet Union. At the request of President Eisenhower, she was named Ambassador to Italy in 1946. In 1949 she was re-elected to Congress. While in Congress she was named to the powerful Committee on Military Affairs. She was a member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board under Presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan. She was devastated by the death of her daughter in an automobile accident and, following the death of Henry Luce, she lived in Hawaii much of the year, returning to Washington in the 1980's where she died of brain cancer in October 1987. Her notable film writing credits include THE WOMEN (1939, play), KISS THE BOYS GOODBYE (1941, play), MARGIN FOR ERROR (1943, play), COME TO THE STABLE (1949, story) and THE OPPOSITE SEX (1956, from The Women).  Nominated for Writing (Screenplay) 1949: THE FALLEN IDOL 1 nomination