Motion Picture Screenwriter. Graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1915. Captain, U.S. Army Air Corps, WWI. He won the Pulitzer Prize (1924) for the drama "They Knew What They Wanted" and in 1939 he won an Academy Award for Best Screenplay for "Gone With The Wind" (1939). His other credits include, "The Prisoner of Zenda" (1937), "Dodsworth" (1936), "Christopher Bean" (1933), "The Greeks Had A Name for Them" (1932), "One Heavenly Night" (1931), "Condemned" (1929), "Bulldog Drummond" (1929), "Ned McCobb's Daughter" (1928), and "The Secret Hour" (1928).
Motion Picture Screenwriter. Graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1915. Captain, U.S. Army Air Corps, WWI. He won the Pulitzer Prize (1924) for the drama "They Knew What They Wanted" and in 1939 he won an Academy Award for Best Screenplay for "Gone With The Wind" (1939). His other credits include, "The Prisoner of Zenda" (1937), "Dodsworth" (1936), "Christopher Bean" (1933), "The Greeks Had A Name for Them" (1932), "One Heavenly Night" (1931), "Condemned" (1929), "Bulldog Drummond" (1929), "Ned McCobb's Daughter" (1928), and "The Secret Hour" (1928).
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Here lies the body of
SIDNEY HOWARD
who was born in
Oakland, California
on June 26th 1891
and died in Tyringham
on August 23rd 1939
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