Stephen Vincent Benet

Stephen Vincent Benet was born on Jul 22, 1898 in USA. Stephen Vincent Benet's big-screen debut came with The Necessary Evil directed by George Archainbaud in 1925. Stephen Vincent Benet is known for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers directed by Stanley Donen, Howard Keel stars as Adam Pontipee and Jeff Richards as Benjamin Pontipee. The upcoming new movie Stephen Vincent Benet plays is Shortcut to Happiness which will be released on Jan 01, 2007.

American poet and writer, several of whose short stories were filmed. The son of a U.S. Army officer who inculcated in Benet and his brother, famed poet William Rose Benet, an appreciation for excellence in literature, Benet was raised around military posts. He attended Yale University, then traveled to Paris, where he met his wife, Rosemary Carr, and began to write professionally. While in Paris again on a Guggenheim Fellowship, he published the story, The Sobbin Women, which later became the basis for the musical Les sept femmes de Barberousse (1954). He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1929 for his narrative poem on the American Civil War, "John Brown's Body." He also wrote numerous radio dramas and a few screenplays before his early death at 44.