| Clarence Greene | |
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| Born | August 10, 1913 New York, New York, USA |
| Died | June 17, 1995 (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.
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).
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