Clarence Greene

This article is about the screenwriter. For the country music pioneer, see Clarence Horton Greene.

Clarence Greene
Born	August 10, 1913(1913-08-10) New York, New York, USA
Died	June 17, 1995(1995-06-17) (aged 81) California, USA
Occupation	Screenwriter, Film Producer
Years active	1944-1966

Clarence Greene (August 10, 1913 - June 17, 1995) was an American screenwriter and film producer who is noted for the "offbeat creativity and originality^[1] of his screenplays and for film noir movies and television episodes produced in the 1950s.

Career

Commencing with the 1944 film, The Town Went Wild (1944), Greene co-wrote many stories and scripts with Russell Rouse. The partners are noted for their work on a series of six film noir movies commencing with D.O.A (directed by Rudolph Maté-1950).^[2] With the second film in the series, The Well (1951), they also took on directing and producing: Rouse as director, and Greene as producer. This collaboration continued through the noir series (The Thief (1952), Wicked Woman (1953), New York Confidential (1955), and House of Numbers (1957)) and beyond. In the late 1950s Greene and Rouse formed a production company, Greene-Rouse Productions, which created the film noir television series Tightrope that ran for one season (1959–60) as well as two films in the 1960s. Their careers largely ended with the unsuccessful 1966 film, The Oscar.^[3]

Rouse and Greene were nominated for the Academy Award for writing The Well (1951). They received the Academy Award for Pillow Talk (1959) (with Maurice Richlin and Stanley Shapiro). D.O.A. has been preserved in the National Film Registry; the film has been remade several times, and Greene was credited as a writer on two: Color Me Dead (1969) and D.O.A (1988).

References

1. ^ Brennan, Sandra. "Russell Rouse". AllMovie. http://www.allmovie.com/artist/russell-rouse-109104. Retrieved 2009-09-30. 
2. ^ Hare, William (2004). L. A. Noir: Nine Dark Visions of the City of Angels. McFarland. ISBN 9780786418015. 
3. ^ Levy, Emanuel (2003). All About Oscar: The History and Politics of the Academy Awards. Continuum. ISBN 9780826414526. http://books.google.com/books?id=dH2Lb_YhIhAC&pg=RA1-PA371#v=onepage&q=&f=false. "As a movie, The Oscar was the worst publicity that Hollywood could have devised for itself. Panned by all the critics, it was also a fiasco at the box office. "Obviously the community doesn't need enemies as long as it has itself," wrote The New York Times 's Bosley Crowther." 

External links

• Clarence Greene at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Greene, Clarence
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Short description
Date of birth	August 10, 1913
Place of birth	New York, New York, USA
Date of death	June 17, 1995
Place of death	California, USA