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Boothe attended schools in [[Garden City, New York|Garden City]] and [[Tarrytown, New York]], graduating in [[1919]]. Her original ambition was to become an [[actress]]. She understudied [[Mary Pickford]] on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] at age 10, then briefly attended a school of the [[theater]] in New York City. While on a [[Europe]]an tour with her mother and stepfather, [[Dr. Albert E. Austin]], Boothe became interested in the [[Women's suffrage]] movement.
Boothe married [[George Tuttle Brokaw]], a New York clothing manufacturer, on [[August 10]], [[1923]], at the age of 20. They had one daughter, [[Ann Clare Brokaw]] born [[Apr 21]], 1926. Brokaw was an [[alcoholic]] and the marriage ended in divorce in [[1929]]. On [[November 23]], [[1935]], Boothe married [[Henry Robinson Luce]], the wealthy and influential [[publisher]] of ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', ''[[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]]'', and ''[[Life (magazine)|Life
Luce was well-acquainted with other members of New York society and was a close personal friend of actress [[Dorothy Hale]]. After Hale's dramatic death by suicide in October [[1938]], Luce commissioned Mexican artist [[Frida Kahlo]], who also had been a friend of Hale's, to do a portrait of the ill-fated thespian. Kahlo, in response, painted "El Suicidio de Dorothy Hale," a lurid depiction of Hale's death that reportedly shocked and horrified Luce.<ref>[http://www.artcyclopedia.com/featuredarticle-2000-10-port5.html October Feature: Notorious Portraits<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
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