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'''Connie Clausen''' (born '''Constance Clausen''' on [[June 11]], [[1923]] in [[Menasha, Wisconsin]] and died [[September 7]], [[1997]] in [[New York City]]) was an actress, author, and literary agent. |
'''Connie Clausen''' (born '''Constance Clausen''' on [[June 11]], [[1923]] in [[Menasha, Wisconsin]] and died [[September 7]], [[1997]] in [[New York City]]) was an actress, author, and literary agent. |
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Connie Clausen (born Constance Clausen on June 11, 1923 in Menasha, Wisconsin and died September 7, 1997 in New York City) was an actress, author, and literary agent.
Connie Clausen's career began in 1942 at the age of 19 when she joined the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, which later provided material for her memoir "I Love You Honey, but the Season's Over" (Holt, Reinhart & Winston, 1961).
After leaving the circus, she worked at M-G-M studios in Hollywood as Director of Special Promotions. Encouraged by an M-G-M studio photographer, she moved to New York to begin a career as a Conover Model and as a successful Broadway and television actress. She appeared on Broadway in "The Gambler" with Alfred Drake and appeared in hundreds of television shows and commercials in the 1950's and 1960's. She was a television spokeswoman for Beech-nut Baby Foods and Westinghouse, and was a regular featured guest on "The Doctor Spock Show" with her twin sons.
In 1970 Connie Clausen began a new career in publishing. As a Vice President of Macmillan, she helped launch two of the company's best sellers, "Watership Down" and "Jonathon Livingston Seagull". In 1978 she started her own literary agency, Connie Clausen & Associates, which had a series of best sellers, including the beauty books by the photographerFrancesco Scavullo, the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Jackson Pollock: An American Saga" by Steven Naifeh and Gregory Smith, "Eat to Win", "The Rules" and many others. She was also the long-time American agent for the British author Quentin Crisp.
After her death Connie Clausen was featured in the book "Cool Dead People" (Jane O'Boyle, Plume), which highlighted her varied career.