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Donald Ogden Stewart (November 30, 1894 – August 2, 1980) was an American writer and screenwriter best known for his sophisticated golden age comedies and melodramas such as The Philadelphia Story (based on the play by Philip Barry), Tarnished Lady and Love Affair.
Donald Ogden Stewart (born Nov. 30, 1894, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.—died Aug. 2, 1980, London) was an American humorist, actor, playwright, and screenwriter who won a 1940 Academy Award for his screenplay adaptation of The Philadelphia Story.
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Donald Ogden Stewart was a writer and actor who won an Oscar for The Philadelphia Story. He also wrote An Affair to Remember, Not So Dumb and other films and plays.
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- Columbus, Ohio, USA
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- London, England, UK
Donald Ogden Stewart was born on November 30, 1894 in Columbus, Ohio, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for The Philadelphia Story (1940), An Affair to Remember (1957) and Not So Dumb (1930). He was married to Leonore (Ella) Sophie Winter Steffens and Beatrice Ames.
- November 30, 1894
- August 2, 1980
Sep 2, 2016 · The comic writer Donald Ogden Stewart, the model for Bill Gorton, lived to be 85 and died in 1980. The world of “The Sun Also Rises” was not a distant mythological period to those people. Blume tells of Hemingway’s move to Paris with his first wife, Hadley, and his early years, living in extremely modest circumstances and working hard.
- Don Noble
He is the raconteur. He is not a nifty hound like Marc Connelly, nor a worshiper of the sentimentally bizarre like Heywood Broun. Of course, my favorite humorist is Donald Ogden Stewart.
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A biography and filmography of Donald Ogden Stewart, a writer and actor who worked on many classic Hollywood movies. He wrote the screenplays for The Philadelphia Story, Holiday, Life with Father and more.
