Robert E. Sherwood
Robert Emmet Sherwood (born April 4, 1896 in New Rochelle , New York , † November 14, 1955 in New York City ) was an American playwright and screenwriter .
life and work
Robert E. Sherwood was one of five children of Arthur Sherwood and the painter Rosina Emmet Sherwood . He initially worked as a film critic before emerging as a writer of dramas and screenplays. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his plays Idiot's Delight (1936), Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1938) and There Shall Be No Night (1940 ) . For his screenplay adaptation of the novel Glory for Me by Mackinlay Kantor for the feature film The Best Years of Our Lives ( The Best Years of Our Lives , 1946), he received the 1947 Academy Award for "Best Adapted Screenplay".
His patriotism led him to work as a speechwriter for President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II . He processed this phase in the book Roosevelt and Hopkins ( Roosevelt and Hopkins. An Intimate History , 1948), for which he won another Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in 1949 .
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Stage plays
- The Road to Rome , 1927 (German Hannibal ante portas! The March on Rome , 1928)
- The Love Nest , 1927
- The Queen's Husband , 1928 (German Palais Royal , 1933)
- Waterloo Bridge , 1930 ( The Waterloo Bridge , 1931)
- This is New York , 1930
- Reunion in Vienna , 1931
- Acropolis , 1933
- The Petrified Forest , 1935 (Eng. The Petrified Forest )
- Tovarich , 1935
- Idiot's Delight , 1936
- Abe Lincoln in Illinois , 1938 (German Abraham Lincoln in Illinois , approx. 1946–1948)
- There Shall Be No Night , 1940
- The Rugged Path , 1945
- Small War on Murray Hill
Books
- The Best Moving Pictures of 1922-1923. Also Who's Who in the Movies and the Yearbook of the American Screen , Small, Maynard & Company, Boston 1923
- Roosevelt and Hopkins. An Intimate History , Harper, New York 1948 (Ger. Roosevelt and Hopkins , Wolfgang Krüger, Hamburg 1950)
Filmography
script
- 1934: The Scarlet Flower ( The Scarlet Pimpernel )
- 1935: The Ghost Goes West ( The Ghost Goes West )
- 1938: The Adventures of Marco Polo ( The Adventures of Marco Polo )
- 1938: Night visit ( Divorce of Lady X )
- 1940: Rebecca
- 1946: The Best Years of Our Lives ( The Best Years of Our Lives )
- 1947: Every Woman Needs an Angel ( The Bishop's Wife )
- 1953: A man on a Wire ( Man on a Tightrope )
Literary template
- 1927: The Private Life of Helen of Troy
- 1931: The Royal Bed
- 1931: Waterloo Bridge
- 1932: Two Kinds of Women
- 1933: Rendez-vous in Vienna ( Reunion in Vienna )
- 1935: The Petrified Forest ( The Petrified Forest )
- 1937: Tovarich
- 1939: Idiot's Delight
- 1940: Abe Lincoln in Illinois
- 1940: her first husband ( Waterloo Bridge )
- 1954: Jupiter's favorite ( Jupiter's Darling )
- 1955: Gaby
Awards
- 1936: Pulitzer Prize for Theater (Drama) for Idiot's Delight (1936)
- 1939: Pulitzer Prize for Theater (Drama) for Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1938)
- 1941: Pulitzer Prize for Theater (Drama) for There Shall Be No Night (1940)
- 1947: Oscar for the screenplay of The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
- 1949: Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for Roosevelt and Hopkins (1948)
- 1949: Bancroft Prize for Roosevelt and Hopkins (1948)
In 1937 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters .
literature
- Harriet Hyman Alonso: Robert E. Sherwood: the playwright in peace and war , Amherst, Mass. [u. a.]: Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 2007, ISBN 978-1-55849-619-4 .
Web links
- Robert E. Sherwood in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Robert E. Sherwood in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Members: Robert E. Sherwood. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 26, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sherwood, Robert E. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sherwood, Robert Emmet |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American playwright and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 4, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New Rochelle |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 14, 1955 |
| Place of death | New York City |