Robert E. Sherwood
Robert Emmet Sherwood ( born April 4, 1896 in New Rochelle, New York, † 14 November 1955 New York City ) was an American playwright and screenwriter.
Life and work
Sherwood, born 1896 in New Rochelle, New York, worked as a film critic before he emerged as a writer of plays and screenplays. For his stage plays Idiot's Delight ( 1936), Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1938 ) and There Shall Be No Night ( 1940) he won the Pulitzer Prize for drama ( drama). 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 was awarded the 1947 Academy Award for " Best Adapted Screenplay ".
His patriotism led him to become active during the Second World War as a speechwriter for President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He processed this stage in the book Roosevelt and Hopkins ( Roosevelt and Hopkins. An Intimate History, 1948), for which he won another 1949 Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize.
Work
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 (Eng. Palais Royal, 1933)
- Waterloo Bridge, 1930 (Eng. 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, about 1946 to 1948 )
- There Shall Be No Night, 1940
- The Rugged Path, 1945
- Small War on Murray Hill
- The Best Moving Pictures of 1922-1923. So 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 ( German Roosevelt and Hopkins, Wolfgang Krüger, Hamburg 1950)
Filmography
Screenplay
Based Upon