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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 (1891-1939) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who adapted novels by Sinclair Lewis and Margaret Mitchell for the screen. He also wrote They Knew What They Wanted, The Silver Cord, and Yellow Jack.
May 29, 2018 · Sidney Howard was a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and an Oscar-winning screenwriter for Gone with the Wind. He wrote for Hollywood's top stars, such as Ronald Colman and Clark Gable, and influenced the development of sound films.
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 ...
Learn about Sidney Howard, who wrote realistic plays and won the Pulitzer prize for They Knew What They Wanted. He also adapted novels by Sinclair Lewis and Margaret Mitchell for the screen.
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.
