Clemence Dane

Clemence Dane was born on Feb 21, 1888 in UK. Clemence Dane's big-screen debut came with Murder! directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1930. Clemence Dane is known for Vacation from Marriage directed by Alexander Korda, Robert Donat stars as Robert Wilson and Deborah Kerr as Cathy Wilson. The most recent award Clemence Dane achieved is Academy Awards, USA. The upcoming new movie Clemence Dane plays is The Angel with the Trumpet which will be released on Mar 20, 1950.

British novelist and playwright Clemence Dane was born Winifred Ashton in Kent, England, in 1888. A gifted student, she was educated in a variety of private schools and, at age 16, was hired to teach French in Geneva, Switzerland. A year later she returned to England and studied art for three years in London, and another year in Dresden, Germany, and showed promise as a portrait painter. However, she gave up her art career to accept a position as a teacher in Ireland. She left that position for a career as a stage actress, and did that for several years until World War I broke out. She plunged into war work and drove herself so relentlessly that her health broke down. While recuperating she wrote her first novel, "Regiment of Women", under the pseudonym Clemence Dane, a name she picked in honor of the famous London church of St. Clemence Dane (later destroyed in a German bombing raid in 1940).