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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.
Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American epic historical romance film adapted from the 1936 novel by Margaret Mitchell. The film was produced by David O. Selznick of Selznick International Pictures and directed by Victor Fleming.
Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Sidney Howard owned a 700-hundred-acre cattle ranch in Tyringham, Massachusetts. On Wednesday, August 23, 1939, he was attempting to start a two-and-a-half ton tractor in his shed.
Jun 10, 2020 · Under that pressure, Selznick and his screenwriter, Sidney Howard, ultimately softened some of those elements, and agreed to the N.A.A.C.P.’s suggestion of hiring a technical adviser “to watch the...
Mar 5, 2023 · Bitter and struggling with alcohol problems, Selznick hired him to replace two screenwriters, Sidney Howard (who kept the final credit) and Oliver Garrett. The writer found that he could only...
Aug 15, 2024 · According to his “Preliminary Notes,” what irritated Howard most about Gone with the Wind was a fault which he attributed to the novelist: “Scarlett bores me stiff after she marries Rhett ...
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Gone With The Wind (1939) is often considered the most beloved, enduring and popular film of all time. Sidney Howard's script was derived from Margaret Mitchell's first and only published, best-selling Civil War and Reconstruction Period novel of 1,037 pages that first appeared in 1936, but was mostly written in the late 1920s.
