Sidney Howard

b. Sidney Coe Howard, 26 June 1891, Oakland, California, USA, d. 23 August 1939, Tyringham, Massachusetts, USA. A well known and recognized playwright, Howard obtained considerable success within the theater with takes on such as for example Swords (1921), Casanova (1923, which he translated from Lorenzo De Azertis’ unique and that was staged with incidental music by Deems Taylor), Bewitched (1924, co-written with Edward Sheldon), Ned McCobb’s Child (1926, film 1928), Fifty percent Gods (1929, filmed a yr later as Totally free Like), The Metallic Wire (1933), The Past due Christopher Bean (1932, filmed as Christopher Bean in 1933), Dodsworth (1934, film 1936), Pathways Of Glory (1935, based on Humphrey Cobb’s book and was also the foundation from the 1957 film), and Yellowish Jack port (1934, film 1938). Most effective of most was Howard’s play They Knew What They Desired (1924), that he was granted a Pulitzer Reward and that was filmed 3 x, as The Key Hour (1928), A FEMALE To Like (1930) plus they Knew What They Desired (1940). This play was also the foundation for the musical PROBABLY THE MOST Happy Fella (1956), which, with tunes by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, beguiled Broadway viewers for any 20-month run. This is accompanied by a 288-overall performance work in London, many revivals, regional theater productions, concert presentations, albums by unique and being successful casts, along with several recordings of specific songs. Through the 20s and 30s, Howard was an associate from the Playwrights’ Organization (with Maxwell Anderson, S.N. Behrman, Elmer Grain and Robert E. Sherwood), a business in charge of staging many exclusive productions. Howard was also effective in Hollywood, composing screenplays, occasionally in collaboration, for some from the adaptations of his takes on in addition to Condemned (1929), Raffles (1930, remade 1940) and Arrowsmith (1931). His very best Hollywood achievement was his screenplay for Eliminated USING THE Wind (1939). Based on Margaret Mitchell’s sprawling book, the film was, and continues to be, hugely well-known. Howard was granted an Oscar for Greatest Screenplay but unfortunately, some months prior to the award wedding ceremony, a tractor he was traveling on his plantation rolled over and smashed him to loss of life.