Walter Huston
Sam Dodsworth
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Dodsworth is a 1936 American drama film directed by William Wyler, and starring Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Paul Lukas, Mary Astor and David Niven. Sidney Howard based the screenplay on his 1934 stage adaptation of the 1929 novel of the same name by Sinclair Lewis. Huston reprised his stage role.
Dodsworth: Directed by William Wyler. With Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Paul Lukas, Mary Astor. A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.
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- Drama, Romance
- William Wyler
- 1936-09-23
When Sam Dodsworth (Walter Huston), the head of a car company, embarks on a vacation in Europe with his youth-obsessed wife, Fran (Ruth Chatterton), the couple find themselves growing apart.
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- Walter Huston
- William Wyler
- Drama
Film Details. Based on the novel Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis (New York, 1929) and the play of the same name dramatized by Sidney Howard, as produced on the stage by Max Gordon (New York 24 Feb 1934).
- William Wyler, Eddie Bernoudy
- Walter Huston
This worldly, richly layered adaptation of Sinclair Lewis’s 1929 novel, starring Walter Huston and Ruth Chatterton as a wealthy American couple whose marriage is on the rocks during a trip to Europe, is one of the triumphs of the storied career of director William Wyler.
Dodsworth (1936) is famed German-born director William Wyler's classic romantic drama from Samuel Goldwyn Productions, and distributed by United Artists. Scriptwriter Sidney Howard wrote the screenplay based upon his 1934 stage adaptation of Sinclair Lewis' 1929 novel of the same name.
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Walter Huston plays Sam Dodsworth, a self-made millionaire who founded an auto parts manufacturing company in Zenith, Ohio. His wife Fran (Ruth Chatterton) convinces him that when he retires, they need to take off to…
