Sidney Howard

The Silver Cord a drama about a mother who is pathologically close to her sons and works to undermine their romances was one of the most successful plays of the 1926-27 Broadway season. ” The film version of the novel directed by Stanley Kubrick did not appear until 1957. Apparently an employee had left the transmission in high gear.

He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1925 and a posthumous Academy Award in 1940 for the screenplay for Gone with the Wind.