Sidney Coe Howard was an American playwright, dramatist and screenwriter.
17 Facts About Sidney Howard
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Sidney Howard received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1925 and a posthumous Academy Award in 1940 for the screenplay for Gone with the Wind.
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Sidney Howard was born in Oakland, California, the son of Helen Louise and John Lawrence Howard.
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Sidney Howard's saving grace was that he was a remarkably prolific writer.
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In 1922, Sidney Howard married actress Clare Eames, who had played the female lead in Swords.
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Sidney Howard later starred in Howard's Lucky Sam McCarver and Ned McCobb's Daughter on Broadway and The Silver Cord in London.
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In 1932, Sidney Howard was nominated for an Academy Award for his adaptation of the Sinclair Lewis novel Arrowsmith and again in 1936 for Dodsworth, which he had adapted for the stage in 1934.
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Sidney Howard wrote a screenplay as well for Lewis's most political book, the anti-Fascist novel It Can't Happen Here.
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In 1935, Sidney Howard wrote the Broadway stage adaptation of Humphrey Cobb's novel Paths of Glory.
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Sidney Howard was the posthumous winner of the 1939 Academy Award for an adapted screenplay for Gone with the Wind.
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Sidney Howard was an advocate for writers' rights in the theatrical industry.
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Sidney Howard died in the summer of 1939 at the age of 48 in Tyringham, Massachusetts while working on his 700-acre farm.
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Sidney Howard was crushed to death in a garage by his two-and-a-half ton tractor.
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Sidney Howard had turned the ignition switch on and was cranking the engine to start it when it lurched forward, pinning him against the wall of the garage.
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Sidney Howard seemed to enjoy testing his public; or perhaps he simply saw the world as being filled with rogues.
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At the time of his death, Sidney Howard was working on a dramatization of Carl van Doren's biography of Benjamin Franklin.
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Sidney Howard was posthumously inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1981.