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  1. 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 .

  2. Jun 22, 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. Howard graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1915 and studied under George Pierce Baker at his ...

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  3. May 29, 2018 · If Sidney Howard had written only the screenplay for Gone with the Wind, he would have earned his place in film history. But in addition to writing America's most popular movie, Howard's talents helped bring prestige and dignity to some of the best films of the 1930s.

  4. Sidney Howard. 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 ...

  5. Sidney Coe Howard was born on June 26, 1891, in Oakland, Calif. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1915 and studied playwriting under George Pierce Baker at Harvard University. In World War I Howard served with the U.S. ambulance corps and later was a captain in the Army Air Corps.

  6. Dec 18, 2007 · According to Andrew Sinclair, who edited and published Howard’s original screenplay, a comparison of Howard’s original text and the actual film, shows that GWTW is 85 percent Howard’s work. 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.

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    Sidney Howard was born on 26 June 1891 in Oakland, California, USA. He was a writer, known for Gone with the Wind (1939), Dodsworth (1936) and Arrowsmith (1931). He was married to Leopoldine Blaine Damrosch and Clare Eames.

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