Claire Dodd (December 29, 1908 - November 23, 1973) was a successful film actress. The Des Moines, Iowa-born actress moved to New York at the age of 15 and joined the Ziegfeld Follies where she was eventually discovered by Darryl F. Zanuck. She went on to work for Warner Brothers, Parmount and Universal studios. Her films included The Glass Key (1935) and The Black Cat (1941). Jump to: navigation, search December 29 is the 363rd day of the year (364th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 2 days remaining. ... See also: 1907 in film 1908 1909 in film years in film film Events Thomas Edison formed the Motion Picture Patents Company, with goals of controlling production and distribution, raising theater admission prices, cooperating with censorship bodies, and preventing film stock from getting into the hands of nonmember producers. ... Jump to: navigation, search November 23 is the 327th day of the year (328th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 38 days remaining. ... See also: 1972 in film 1973 1974 in film 1970s in film years in film film Events The Marx Brothers Zeppo Marx divorces his second wife, Barbara Blakely. ... Des Moines skyline Des Moines (pronounced in English, in French) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Iowa. ... The Ziegfeld Follies were a series of elaborate theatrical productions on Broadway in New York City from 1907 through 1931. ... Darryl Francis Zanuck (September 5, 1902–December 22, 1979) was a producer, writer, actor and director who played a major part in the Hollywood studio system as its longest survivor. ... Jump to: navigation, search The novel The Glass Key is a novel by Dashiell Hammett, said to be his favorite among his works. ...
In films since 1930, Claire was for several years an employee of Warner Bros., where she played many a scheming seductress.
She projected a more likeable, down-to-earth image as Della Street in a brace of Warners' "Perry Mason" movies, The Case of the Curious Bride (1935) and The Case of the Lucky Legs (1936)--actually marrying lawyer Mason (Warren William) in the latter film.
ClaireDodd's last Hollywood years were spent at Universal Pictures in the early 1940s, where she played pleasant but colorless heroines; in one such assignment, Abbott and Costello's In the Navy (1941), Claire was reunited with her old Warners colleague Dick Powell.
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