The Old Maid. Zoe Byrd Akins was born in Humansville, Missouri, second of three children of Thomas Jasper and Sarah Elizabeth Green Akins. Her family was...
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Howard J. Green from a then-unproduced stage play of the same name by Zoë Akins, and was directed by Lowell Sherman. Hepburn won her first Academy Award...
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Canadian historian Virgil Akins (1928–2011), American boxer Zoë Akins (1886–1958), American playwright Akin (disambiguation) Aikins Akins Name Meaning and History...
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(in her second screen role and first starring role). The screenplay by Zoë Akins is an adaptation of the 1932 British novel Christopher Strong by Gilbert...
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Irving Thalberg and Bernard H. Hyman, from a screenplay by James Hilton, Zoë Akins, and Frances Marion. The picture is based on the 1848 novel and 1852 play...
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Augustus and Ruth Goetz, is based on the stage play Morning Glory by Zoë Akins, which also served as the basis for the 1933 film Morning Glory starring...
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The Old Maid is a 1934 play by American playwright Zoë Akins, adapted from Edith Wharton's 1924 novella of the same name. The play as published has six...
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Pictures, and directed by George Cukor. The screenplay was written by Zoë Akins, based on the play Zaza. The music score is by Frederick Hollander. The...
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and actress Zoë (British singer) (Zoë Pollock; born 1969), English pop star Zoe Akins (1886–1958), American playwright, poet and author Zoë Avril (born...
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is based on the 1935 Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name by Zoë Akins, which was adapted from the 1924 Edith Wharton novella The Old Maid: the...
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pre-Code American drama film directed by Dorothy Arzner. The screenplay by Zoë Akins was adapted from Timothy Shea's novel of the same name. It stars Ruth...
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was directed by Rowland V. Lee and based on the play Pardon My Glove by Zoë Akins. George Bancroft as Joe Forziati, a New York building contractor Mary...
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a science fiction serial aired in 1953 G K Saunders Moon-Flower, by Zoë Akins, adapted from a Hungarian play by Lajos Bíró. Moonflowers (band) Moonflower...
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a librarian. Her great-aunt was the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Zoë Akins. Metcalf is an alumna of Illinois State University, class of 1976. Metcalf...
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Humansville. Intercity bus service to the city is provided by Jefferson Lines. Zoë Akins, (1886–1958), became a successful poet, playwright, and screenwriter....
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American pre-Code drama film directed by Edward Goodman and written by Zoë Akins. The film stars Paul Lukas, Eleanor Boardman, Juliette Compton, Geoffrey...
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American pre-Code drama film directed by Dorothy Arzner and written by Zoë Akins, based on the play Blind Mice, written by Vera Caspary and Winifred Lenihan...
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the role of Ellen Olenska. The Old Maid was adapted for the stage by Zoë Akins in 1934. It was staged by Guthrie McClintic and starred Judith Anderson...
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which was directed by Robert G. Vignola and based on the 1919 play by Zoë Akins that starred Ethel Barrymore. A young and unknown Clark Gable made an...
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Vignola, which was itself an adaptation of a 1919 play of the same name by Zoë Akins. Billie Dove as Lady Helen Haden Walter Pidgeon as Ned Thayer Holmes Herbert...
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La Cava Screenplay by Morrie Ryskind Eric Hatch Contributing writers: Zoë Akins Robert Presnell Sr. Based on 1101 Park Avenue 1935 novel by Eric Hatch...
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Pulitzer Prize for Drama for 1934–35. The award was presented instead to Zoë Akins' play The Old Maid. Accused of rejecting Hellman's play because of its...
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late 1930, Samuel Goldwyn announced he had bought the film rights to Zoë Akins' comedy play The Greeks Had a Word for It for her. She reportedly did...
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Douglas. The period film was produced by Merian C. Cooper and written by Zoë Akins. Set before the American Civil War, The Toy Wife tells the story of Frou-Frou...
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screenplay was based on the plays The Greeks Had a Word for It (1930) by Zoe Akins and Loco (1946) by Dale Eunson and Katherine Albert.[citation needed]...
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Maxwell Anderson 1934 Men in White Sidney Kingsley 1935 The Old Maid Zoë Akins 1936 Idiot's Delight Robert E. Sherwood 1937 You Can't Take It with You...
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be considered Tina's mother. The novella was adapted for the stage by Zoë Akins, and won the 1935 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. A film version was subsequently...
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October 22 – Oscar Griswold, American general (d. 1959) October 30 – Zoë Akins, American playwright, poet and author (d. 1958) November 1 – Hermann Broch...
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associated with poets like Vachel Lindsay and Sara Teasdale. and the dramatist Zoe Akins. Johns was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to George Sibley Johns and Minnehaha...
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Screenplay by S. N. Behrman Salka Viertel Samuel Hoffenstein Talbot Jennings Zoë Akins Based on Pani Walewska by Wacław Gąsiorowski (1904 book) Helen Jerome...
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