Sherwood, Robert E. 1896-1955
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Name (Latin)
Sherwood, Robert E. 1896-1955
Name (Arabic)
شيروود، روبرت إيميت، 1896-1955
Other forms of name
Šarwed, Robart ʼImant, 1896-1955
Šarwed, Robart ʾImant
nnaa Sherwood, Robert Emmet, 1896-1955
Date of birth
1896-04-04
Date of death
1955-11-14
Field of activity
Motion picture authorship
Motion picture plays
Playwriting
Occupation
Dramatists
Dramatists, American
Screenwriters
scriptwriters
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- Contemporary authors on Infotrac, Feb. 22, 2006(Robert E(mmet) Sherwood; b. Apr. 4, 1896, New Rochelle, NY, d. Nov. 14, 1955, New York, NY; playwright and screenwriter)
- biographical note (family descended from patriot Thomas Addis Emmet; member Robert Emmet Sherwood (1896-1955), playwright ( (Finding Aid to the Emmet Family papers ... in the Archives of American Art:) )
- The Playwrights' Company present ... Abe Lincoln in Illinois, 1938 or 1939:p. 12 (The Playwrights' Company, consisting of the playwrights Maxwell Anderson, S.N. Behrman, Sidney Howard, Elmer Rice, and Robert E. Sherwood, formed as their own producing company)
- His The road to Rome, 1927.
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Robert-Sherwood-1928
Theatre Magazine Company; Vandamm Studio, photographer, Public domain
Wikipedia description:
Robert Emmet Sherwood (April 4, 1896 – November 14, 1955) was an American playwright and screenwriter. He is the author of Waterloo Bridge, Idiot's Delight, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, There Shall Be No Night, and The Best Years of Our Lives. He was a screenwriter on the adapted films Rebecca and The Bishop's Wife. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1936, 1939, 1941), an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (1947) and a Pulitzer Prize for Biography (1949).
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