Word: dodsworth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mother and grandmother to most of filmdom's top stars, won an Oscar as best supporting actress in 1938 for Jezebel, was nominated for three others, appeared in 35 movies all told and in such Broadway hits as 1930's Lysistrata (252 performances) and 1934's Dodsworth (147 performances...
...modern American is a light-year removed from the provincial prototypes who gave the nation one of its richest lodes of comedy and satire. The hayseeds-a word as quaint as Gotham-can no longer be sold the radiator in their hotel rooms. Dodsworth would probably call his p.r. man to get tickets for a hit show, and Eugene Gant, far from being intimidated by the problem of white flannels, would have his Dacron boxer shorts laundered by the staff of the Americana Hotel. Sinclair Lewis' The Man Who Knew Coolidge would be hospitalized for logorrhea long before...
...Sins of the Fathers, and a bestselling novelist at 56 with Homeward Borne; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Norwalk, Conn. Gracious of manner and restless of mind, thrice-married Ruth Chatterton spent more than a decade as one of Hollywood's leading ladies making such films as Dodsworth and Madame X, then returned to the stage to score solid triumphs in The Constant Wife and Pygmalion, still had enough excess energy to take up flying, write songs, translate plays from the French, serve on committees to aid Israel, and write four books...
...Main Street. He was then 35, had published six novels and numerous short stories to mixed notices. But Main Street touched a contemporary nerve as no novel has done since. It sold furiously and was discussed endlessly. Within ten years, it was followed by Babbitt, Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry and Dodsworth. They brought Lewis wealth and world renown, both of which were cosmetics for an unattractive man. And in 1930 they brought him the Nobel Prize for literature, making Lewis the first American to win this International accolade...
...significant work is all concentrated in the ten-year span from 1920 to 1930. The novels after 1930, even the successful It Can't Happen Here and Kingsblood Royal, were jerry-built, and some of them were embarrassingly bad. E. M. Forster predicted his decline as early as Dodsworth; in an essay on Lewis called "A Camera Man," he wrote: "Photography is a pursuit for the young. So long as a writer has the freshness of youth on him, he can work the snapshot method, but when it passes he has nothing to fall back upon. It is here...