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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.
Jun 22, 2024 · Sidney Howard, American playwright who helped to bring psychological as well as theatrical realism to the American stage. His notable plays included They Knew What They Wanted (1924), The Silver Cord (1926), and Yellow Jack (1934; cowritten with Paul de Kruif).
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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.
They Knew What They Wanted is a 1924 play written by Sidney Howard. The play premiered on Broadway in 1924 and had three Broadway revivals as well as a London production.
Dec 18, 2021 · All The Drama: “They Knew What They Wanted” by Sidney Howard, 1925 Winner, Pulitzer Prize for Drama. All The Drama is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of deep dives into the plays that have won The Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Podcast: Play in new window | Download. Subscribe: RSS.
Dec 18, 2007 · Born in Oakland, Sidney Howard came to Berkeley as a student in 1911. His undergraduate poems and stories appeared in Occident, and he wrote two pageants which were performed on campus. He also took Leonard Bacon’s English 106, probably the first seminar in creative writing ever offered at Cal.
Dec 12, 2014 · 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. Margaret Mitchell’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the Deep South and the American Civil War came out in 1936.
