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Sidney Coe Howard (June 26, 1891 – August 23, 1939) was an American playwright, dramatist and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1925 and a posthumous Academy Award in 1940 for the screenplay for Gone with the Wind.
Aug 19, 2024 · Sidney Howard (born June 26, 1891, Oakland, California, U.S.—died August 23, 1939, Tyringham, Massachusetts) was an American playwright who helped to bring psychological as well as theatrical realism to the American stage.
May 29, 2018 · HOWARD, Sidney. Writer. Nationality: American. Born: Sidney Coe Howard in Oakland, California, 26 June 1891. Education: Attended the University of California, Berkeley, B.A. 1915; studied with George Pierce Baker at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1915–16.
Sidney Howard was a member of the Benfleet Yacht Club and wrote a book, Thames to Tahiti in 1933, about his sailing experiences on board a 38 foot cutter, Pacific Moon. It described how he and a companion, John Johnstone, neither of whom had much knowledge of navigation, managed to sail over 12,000 miles in 13 months, as the book title suggests ...
A prolific U.S. playwright and screenwriter, Sidney Howard helped bring psychological as well as theatrical realism to the American stage. He won the Pulitzer prize in 1925 for They Knew What They Wanted. Sidney Coe Howard was born on June 26, 1891, in Oakland, Calif.
Dec 18, 2007 · Sidney Howard’s life came to a sudden, shocking end in August, 1939, when he died in an accident. GWTW had its premiere in Atlanta four months later. At the February 1940, Academy Awards, Sinclair Lewis presented Howard’s posthumous Academy Award for the GWTW screenplay.
Dec 12, 2014 · Clothed in superlatives, it is one of the best-loved films ever made and still reportedly, after allowing for inflation, the most profitable. Sidney Howard’s script was so long that the movie would have lasted more than six hours and even revised by an army of writers it ran well over three hours and had to be shown with an interval.
