Robert Emmet Sherwood
| Robert E. Sherwood | |
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Robert E. Sherwood in 1928
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| Born | Robert Emmet Sherwood April 4, 1896 New Rochelle, New York, U.S. |
| Died | November 14, 1955 (aged 59) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author, playwright, screenwriter and historian |
| Alma mater |
Milton Academy Harvard University |
| Spouse |
Madeline Hurlock (1935–55) Mary Brandon (1922–34) |
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| Notable work(s) |
Waterloo Bridge Idiot's Delight Abe Lincoln in Illinois Rebecca There Shall Be No Night The Best Years of Our Lives The Bishop's Wife |
| Awards |
Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1936, 1939, 1941) Academy Award for Best Screenplay (1947) Pulitzer Prize for Biography (1948) |
Robert Emmet Sherwood (April 4, 1896 – November 14, 1955) was an American playwright, editor, and screenwriter.
Born in 1896 in New Rochelle, New York, Robert was a son of Arthur Murray Sherwood, a rich stockbroker, and his wife, the former Rosina Emmet, a highly accomplished illustrator and portrait painter known as Rosina E. Sherwood. He was a great-great-grandson of the former New York State Attorney General Thomas Addis Emmet and a great-grandnephew of the Irish nationalist Robert Emmet, who was executed for high treason after leading an abortive rebellion against British rule in 1803. His relatives also included three other notable American portrait artists: his aunts, Lydia Field Emmet and Jane Emmet de Glehn, and his first cousin, once removed, Ellen Emmet Rand. Sherwood was educated at Fay School,Milton Academy and then Harvard University. He fought with the Royal Highlanders of Canada, CEF in Europe during World War I and was wounded. After his return to the United States, he began working as a movie critic for such magazines as Life and Vanity Fair. Sherwood's career as a critic in the 1920s is discussed in the 2009 documentary For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism. In that film Time critic Richard Schickel discusses, among other topics, how Sherwood was the first New York critic invited to Hollywood by cross-country train to meet the stars and directors.
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