#clare boothe

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Clare Boothe (Mrs. George Brokaw), November 18, 1924.

Photo: Bettmann Archives/Getty Images/Fine Art America

[mythcreant]

George Cukor’s delicious adaptation of Clare Boothe’s fierce, estrogen-laden play, The Women – about a group of catty women (Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell and Norma Shearer) whose lives become interconnected by romantic entanglements, malicious deceptions and vicious spite – strutted into theaters on September 1, 1939.

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[americana-gothic]

Okay, sister, but my idea of love is that love isn't ashamed of nothing.

Miriam, The Women, Clare Boothe

[unmannedpress]

Sunday: Writer Rejected

Dorothy Parker tells me of the last time she encountered Playwright Clare Boothe. The two ladies were trying to get out of a doorway at the same time. Clare drew back and cracked, “Age before beauty, Miss Parker.” As Dotty swept out, she turned to the other guests and said. “Pearls before swine.”  - Hartford Courant (October 14, 1938) via QI.