Sidney Howard - Tyringham, MA
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The grave of American playwright, dramatist, and screenwriter Sidney Howard is located in Tyringham Cemetery, Church Street, Tyringham, MA.
Waymark Code: WM118JB
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 09/07/2019
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The grave of Sidney Howard is marked by a marble headstone with a decorative lunette and a pair of crossed quills at the bottom of the inscription. The headstone is inscribed:
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.
Sidney Coe Howard was born on June 26, 1891 in Oakland, CA. He He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1915 and studied play writing at Harvard University. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1925 for his play They Knew What They Wanted and an Academy Award in 1940 for the screenplay for Gone with the Wind. He died of accident at his farm in Tyringham, MA on August 23, 1939 at age 48. He was posthumously inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1981.
Sidney Howard was a prolific writer. His Broadway stage credits listed on the Internet Broadway Database (link) include:
The Best Man (1960 - 1961)
Silent Night, Lonely Night (1959 - 1960)
Five Finger Exercise (1959 - 1960)
Flowering Cherry (1959)
Chéri (1959)
Juno (1959)
Look After Lulu (1959)
The Gazebo (1958 - 1959)
Cue for Passion (1958)
Edwin Booth (1958)
The Pleasure of His Company (1958 - 1959)
Handful of Fire (1958)
Howie (1958)
Present Laughter (1958)
Summer of the 17th Doll (1958)
The Country Wife (1957 - 1958)
Nude With Violin (1957 - 1958)
Small War on Murray Hill (1957)
The Lovers (1956)
The Most Happy Fella (1956 - 1957)
The Ponder Heart (1956)
Once Upon A Tailor (1955)
The Bad Seed (1954 - 1955)
The Traveling Lady (1954)
All Summer Long (1954)
Ondine (1954)
The Winner (1954)
In the Summer House (1953 - 1954)
Madam, Will You Walk (1953 - 1954)
The Emperor's Clothes (1953)
Mr. Pickwick (1952)
The Grand Tour (1951)
Not for Children (1951)
They Knew What They Wanted (1949)
The Smile of the World (1949)
Street Scene (1947)
Truckline Cafe (1946)
Lute Song (1946)
The Rugged Path (1945 - 1946)
Storm Operation (1944)
A New Life (1943)
The Patriots (1943)
The Pirate (1942 - 1943)
The Eve of St. Mark (1942 - 1943)
Candle in the Wind (1941 - 1942)
The Talley Method (1941)
Flight to the West (1940 - 1941)
Journey to Jerusalem (1940)
There Shall Be No Night (1940)
Two On An Island (1940)
Key Largo (1939 - 1940)
American Landscape (1938 - 1939)
Knickerbocker Holiday (1938 - 1939)
Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1938 - 1939)
The Ghost of Yankee Doodle (1937 - 1938)
Paths of Glory (1935)
Ode to Liberty (1934 - 1935)
Dodsworth (1934 - 1935)
Yellow Jack (1934)
Alien Corn (1933)
The Late Christopher Bean (1932 - 1933)
Marseilles (1930)
Half Gods (1929 - 1930)
Olympia (Oct 16, 1928 - Nov 1928)
Salvation (Jan 31, 1928 - Feb 1928)
The Silver Cord (Dec 20, 1926 - Mar 1927)
Ned McCobb's Daughter (Nov 29, 1926 - Apr 1927)
Last Night of Don Juan / The Pilgrimage (1925)
Lucky Sam McCarver (1925)
They Knew What They Wanted (1924 -1925)
Bewitched (Oct 01, 1924 - Oct 1924)
Casanova (1923)
Swords (1921)