Biography
Donald Ogden Stewart was an American writer and screenwriter best known for his sophisticated golden age comedies and melodramas, such as The Philadelphia Story, Tarnished Lady and Love Affair. Stewart worked with a number of the directors of his time, including George Cukor, Michael Curtiz and Ernst Lubitsch. Stewart was a member of the Algonquin Round Table and, with Ernest Hemingway's friend Bill Smith, the model for Bill Gorton in The Sun Also Rises. His 1922 parody on etiquette, Perfect Behavior, published by George H. Doran and Co., was a favorite book of P. G. Wodehouse.
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Awards & recognition
- Academy Award — Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay · 1941
- Academy Award — Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay · 1941 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Story · 1931 · nominated
Filmography26 titles
Forever and a Day
The Philadelphia Story
The Prisoner of Zenda
Holiday
The Women
Manhattan Melodrama
That's Entertainment, Part II
Without Love
Love Affair
The Prisoner of Zenda
Red Dust
A Woman's Face
Dinner at Eight
Life with Father
Keeper of the Flame
That Uncertain Feeling
Kitty Foyle
Marie Antoinette
Edward, My Son
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Cass Timberlane
Smilin' Through
Brown of Harvard
Love Affair
Not So Dumb
Laughter