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- Clarence Budington Kelland was born on July 11, 1881 in Portland, Michigan, USA. He was a writer, known for Mr. Deeds (2002), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) and Scattergood Survives a Murder (1942). He was married to Betty Carolina Smith. He died on February 18, 1964 in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.
- SpouseBetty Carolina Smith(1907 - 1962) (her death, 2 children)
- American author, journalist, editor and newspaper publisher.
- Frequent contributor to "The Saturday Evening Post" and "The American" magazines.
- Conservative Republican, personal friend of Herbert Hoover and Barry Goldwater. Kelland was a critic of both Franklin D. Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower.
- Once estimated that he put over 10 million words into his 60 novels and nearly 400 short stories during his 61-year writing career.
- I'm the best second-rate writer in America.
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