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- Birth nameClare Rodman Beecher
- Composer, songwriter ("Dearie"), playwright Plays: "and author, educated at the Packer Institute and in private music study. She wrote the Broadway stage scores for "90 in the Shade", "One Kiss", "Annie Dear", "Madame Pompadour", and "The Three Waltzes". Joining ASCAP in 1934, her chief musical collaborators included Sigmund Romberg and Jerome Kern, and her other popular-song compositions include "Egypt", "Other Eyes", "Blushing June Roses", "Somebody's Eyes", "Thro' All the World", "Only With You", "The Bluebird", "Garden of Dreams", "Sunset", "The Road to Yesterday", "Today", and "Lover of Mine".
- IMDb mini biography by: Hup234!
- SpousesArthur Henry(April 2, 1910 - June 2, 1934) (his death)Frederic Arnold Kummer(1895 - 1903) (divorced, 2 children)
- Cousin of actor William Gillette.
- Composed the popular song "In the Dingle-dongle-dell."
- Composed the song "Annie Dear" for the musical of the same name. The song was recorded by Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians on the Victor label in 1924
- Related to Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
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