Zoë Akins

Playwright + Poet + Author

Female

Born Oct 30, 1886

Hometown Humansville, Miss...

Died Oct 29, 1958

Death Place Los Angeles, Cali...

Nationality United States

Zoë Akins was an American playwright, poet, and author.

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Captain Hugo C.L. Rumbold

Married 1932
Bobby Bradley
Dated
Hugo Rumbold
Married

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Sidney Lumet, Il Regista Della Coscienza Americana Persinsala.It
Google News - Apr 28, 2011

... il premio OCIC e il Nastro d'Argento come miglior film straniero, Lumet dedicò le sue energie alle commedie Fascino del palcoscenico (Stage Struck, 1958) ancora con Fonda e tratto dalla commedia Morning Glory di Zoe Akins, Quel tipo di donna (That
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From The International Herald Tribune; 100, 75, 50 Years Ago
NYTimes - May 08, 2010

1910 An Assembly Fit for a King LONDON Not till to-morrow [May 9] is George V to be proclaimed King of Great Britain, Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Defender of the Faith, and Emperor of India, but the proclamation was drawn up and signed at a meeting of the Privy Council held at St. James's Palace at four o'clock in the
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Movies This Week
NYTimes - Sep 13, 1998

Antique screen treasures lend luster to the lineup of movies on television this week: a horror classic, a Pulitzer Prize drama, a Pulitzer musical and a Hitchcock gem. As the initial horror picture filmed in Technicolor, Michael Curtiz's MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM (1933) is most impressive now for its fascinating plot, not for its stretches of
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Home Video; New Cassetes: Glorious 'Falstaff,' Vibrant Hepburn
NYTimes - Aug 04, 1985

Morning Glory Starring Katharine Hepburn, Adolphe Menjou, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Mary Duncan, C. Aubrey Smith; directed by Lowell Sherman, 1933 RKO Video 74 minutes. $34.95 ''Morning Glory'' is dated, to put it mildly. Here's the old story -adapted from a Zoe Akins play -about an unknown actress miraculously wafted to overnight fame as a
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1886 Birth Born on October 30, 1886.

TEENAGE

1903 16 Years Old While at Hosmer Hall she was a classmate of poet Sara Teasdale, both graduating with the Class of 1903. … Read More

TWENTIES

1914 27 Years Old Her first major dramatic work was Papa, written in 1914. … Read More

FORTIES

1930 43 Years Old Eventually, Akins found a small measure of fame with the play, The Greeks Had a Word For It, produced in 1930. … Read More

1932 45 Years Old 1 More Event

In the early 1930s, Akins became more active in film, writing several screenplays as well as licensing minor adaptations of her work—such as The Greeks Had a Word for It which was adapted twice, in 1932 (as The Greeks Had a Word for Them) and 1938 (as Three Blind Mice) -- neither was a hit. … Read More

1935 48 Years Old Finally, Akins received recognition. In 1935, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her dramatization of Edith Wharton's The Old Maid, a melodrama set in New York City and written in five episodes stretching across time from 1839 to 1854. … Read More

1936 49 Years Old Akins also adapted the Alexandre Dumas novel, La dame aux camélias which was adapted into the film Camille in 1936. … Read More

LATE ADULTHOOD

1953 66 Years Old To Akins' surprise, she was thrust into notoriety again in 1953, when Jean Negulesco directed an adaptation of The Greeks Had a Word for It. … Read More

1958 72 Years Old Died on October 29, 1958.

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