Robert E. Sherwood

Robert E. Sherwood was born on Apr 04, 1896 in USA. Robert E. Sherwood's big-screen debut came with The Lucky Lady directed by Raoul Walsh in 1926. Robert E. Sherwood is known for Man on a Tightrope directed by Elia Kazan, Fredric March stars as Karel Cernik and Terry Moore as Tereza Cernik. Robert E. Sherwood has got 2 awards and 1 nominations so far. The most recent award Robert E. Sherwood achieved is Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. The upcoming new movie Robert E. Sherwood plays is The Preacher's Wife which will be released on Dec 13, 1996.

Robert E. Sherwood, a brilliant multifaceted writer, was born to Arthur Murray and Rosina Emmet Sherwood, educated at the Milton Academy (Massachusetts) and Harvard, and was wounded while serving with the Canadian Black Watch in WWI. His literary career started with jobs as movie critic at Vanity Fair and Life magazines, but he became a full-time writer with the success of his play "The Road to Rome" in 1927. His first movie writing job came in 1924, rewriting the subtitles for Notre-Dame de Paris (1923). Over the years he worked with most of the major talents in the film business, including Alexander Korda, George S. Kaufman and Samuel Goldwyn, often working without credit. During WWII Sherwood served in a number of posts, most notably as director of the overseas branch of the Office of War Information (OWI). He resigned in 1944 and returned to film writing, winning an Oscar for his script for Les Plus Belles Années de notre vie (1946). Sherwood received numerous literary awards throughout his career, including the Pulitzer Prize in 1936, '39, '41, and '49, and the Bancroft Prize for distinguished writing in American history in 1949.