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Claire Luce (15 October 1903, Syracuse, New York - 31 August 1989, New York City) was a stage and screen actress. Among her few films were Up the River (1930) directed by John Ford and costarring Spencer Tracy and Humphrey Bogart, and Under Secret Orders, the English-language version of G. W. Pabst`s Mademoiselle Docteur (1937).
Luce starred in many Broadway plays 1923-1952, including costarring with Fred Astaire in the original musical Gay Divorce (1932). This musical was made into the movie The Gay Divorcee (1934), with movie star Ginger Rogers taking Luce`s stage role as Mimi. She also starred in the Broadway version of Of Mice and Men (1937), written by John Steinbeck and directed by George S. Kaufman.
She is not the same person as famous author and playwright Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987).
Biography Credit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Luce
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