1. Clemence Dane took the pseudonym "Clemence Dane" from the church, St Clement Danes on the Strand, London.
11 Facts About Clemence Dane
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Clemence Dane's first novel, Regiment of Women, written in 1914, was a study of life in a girls' school.
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The pinnacle of Clemence Dane's success was winning an Academy Award with Anthony Pelissier for the film Perfect Strangers, released in the United States as Vacation from Marriage, starring Robert Donat and Deborah Kerr as a married couple transformed by their experiences in the Second World War.
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Clemence Dane compared the modern girl's choices with the popular gambling card game Speculation in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park.
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Clemence Dane wrote for Time and Tide and was a member of the Six Point Group.
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Clemence Dane contributed to the Club's serials The Scoop and The Floating Admiral.
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Clemence Dane's The Arrogant History of White Ben is a dystopian novel set in a politically unstable near future.
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Early in her career, Clemence Dane had been on stage under the pseudonym Diana Cortis.
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Years after Clemence Dane expressed an interest in returning to acting, and her friend Noel Coward wrote the part of Madame Arcati, the eccentric medium in Blithe Spirit for her.
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In 1955, Clemence Dane edited the Novels of Tomorrow series for publisher Michael Joseph.
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Clemence Dane wrote a book on the history of Covent Garden titled London has a Garden and published in 1964.