Clara Lipman

Clara Lipman Mann was an American actress and a playwright. She began her acting career in the late 1880s with the A.M. Palmer Theatrical Co. in New York. By the early 1890s she was appearing regularly on stage with comedian Louis Mann. It was probably around this time that the couple married. By around the turn of the 20th century she began writing and appearing in her own plays. She went on to author a total of 22 plays, 12 in collaboration with Samuel Shipman. Clara Lipman retired from the stage in 1927. In 1940 she made a brief comeback, appearing in the play "It's a Girl". Clara's younger sister, Mattie Lipman Marum (1874-1932), was at one time a well known lieder singer.