Also credited on1 work
These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.
In the literature8 passages
- Miss Liberty boasted impressive credentials: songs by Irving Berlin, book by Robert E. Sherwood (his only musical), and direction by Moss Hart. If the results fell somewhat short of expectations, the show was still very much in the Americana mold of Oklahoma! and Bloomer Girl that offered a comforting view of the past to make audiences fe…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
- Two Pulitzer Prizes were awarded during the year 1936: Robert E. Sherwood’s “Idiot’s Delight” for the 1935-36 season and George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart’s “You Can’t Take It With You” for the 1936-37 season. The hit plays included “The Women” with Margalo Gillmore, Ilka Chase and Audrey Christie, “Brother Rat” with Eddie Albert, Frank Alb…theatre-pdfs/A Pictorial History of the American Theatre, 1860-1985 (Blum).txt
- Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in Robert E. Sherwood's Idiot's Delight. New York, Shubert Theatre, 1936. [Theatre Collection, Thetheatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 1 (A-C).txt
- Idiot's Delight, by Robert E. Sherwood a tragicomic commentary on the insanity of war and of those who wage and engage in wars won the 1935-1936 Pulitzer Prize. A close contender for the prize was S. N. Behrman's End of Summer, a melancholy comedy of manners about a charming woman who, on the brink of middletheatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 1 (A-C).txt
- Maxwell Anderson, Robert E. Sherwood, Elmer Rice, Clifford Odets, Sidney Kingsley, and Thornton Wilder. Among the more successful writers of comedy were Philip Barry, S. N. Behrman, Moss Hart, and George S.theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 1 (A-C).txt
- For Robert E. Sherwood, who won a Pulitzer Prize No Night (1940), the first half of the decade was devoted to war work; he wrote some of President Roosevelt's speeches, among other duties. His film scripts for Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca (1940) and William for There Shall Betheatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 1 (A-C).txt
Passages naming this person, found by keyword across 178 books. A keyword match is not a biography, and a common name will pull in the wrong one.
What this page does not know
- What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
- Any staging. This name appears in no production cast list we hold — 1,877 of 7,139 people are in that position, most of them writers, composers and designers rather than performers.
- Any portrait. 1,626 of 7,139 people have one, so this is the usual case rather than the exception.
- Which of the credits above the roles on this record — book writer — apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.