Clare Kummer (January 9, 1873 – April 21, 1958) was an American composer, lyricist, and playwright.

Kummer was born Clare Rodman Beecher in Brooklyn, New York, the granddaughter of Rev.

[3] Her plays included Noah’s Ark (1906), The Opera Ball (1912), The Choir Rehearsal (1914), Good Gracious, Annabelle (1916-1917), A Successful Calamity (1917), The Rescuing Angel (1917), Be Calm, Camilla (1918), Rollo's Wild Oat (1920), The Choir Rehearsal (1921, one-act), Chinese Love (1921, one-act), The Robbery (1921, one-act), Bridges (1921, one-act), The Mountain Man (1921), Banco (1922), One Kiss (1923), Annie Dear (1924), Madame Pompadour (1924), Pomeroy's Past (1926), So's Your Old Antique (1930), Amourette (1933), Her Master's Voice (1933), Spring Thaw (1938), and Many Happy Returns (1945),[2][4][5] "Any one of them had meant to me a gay and frolicsome evening, clever and fresh and full of grace," recalled one critic of Kummer's earlier plays.

They had two daughters, Marjorie (who married English actor Roland Young) and Frederica.

Her second husband was Arthur Henry; they met through their mutual acquaintance, Theodore Dreiser, and married in 1910.