Word: dodsworth
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...worked as a publicity agent and a script clerk before directing his first silent film in 1925. Though his work ranged from musicals (Funny Girl, 1968) to westerns (The Big Country, 1958), Wyler was best known for his film adaptations of such novels as Sinclair Lewis' Dodsworth (1936) and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (1939), and Lillian Hellman's play The Little Foxes...
...Strangelove (Kubrick, 1964); Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933); The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972); Mean Streets (Martin Scorcese, 1974); Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955); The Adventures of Robin Hood (Michael Curtiz, 1935; The Man on the Flying Trapeze (Charles Bogel, 1935); Swing Time (George Stevens, 1937); Dodsworth (William Wyler, 1935; and the Road to Utopia (you've got us, with Hope and Crosby...
...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...