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Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first author from the United States (and the first from the Americas) to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters."
Pages in category "Films based on works by Sinclair Lewis" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
It Can't Happen Here is a 1935 dystopian political novel by the American author Sinclair Lewis. [1] Set in a fictionalized version of the 1930s United States, it follows an American politician, Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip, who quickly rises to power to become the country's first outright dictator (in allusion to Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Nazi Germany), and Doremus Jessup, a newspaper editor ...
Films based on works by Sinclair Lewis (15 P) Pages in category "Adaptations of works by Sinclair Lewis" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
Elmer Gantry is a 1960 American drama film about a confidence man and a female evangelist selling religion to small-town America. Adapted by director Richard Brooks, the film is based on the 1927 novel of the same name by Sinclair Lewis, and stars Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Shirley Jones and Patti Page.
Babbitt is a 1934 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Sinclair Lewis directed by William Keighley and starring Aline MacMahon, Guy Kibbee and Claire Dodd. The screenplay is about a staid small-town businessman who gets ensnared in shady dealings.
Dodsworth is a 1936 American drama film directed by William Wyler, and starring Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Paul Lukas, Mary Astor and David Niven. Sidney Howard based the screenplay on his 1934 stage adaptation of the 1929 novel of the same name by Sinclair Lewis.
Sinclair Lewis Fay Wray: This Is the Life (1944) Felix E. Feist: Angelo, Tyrant of Padua (1835) Victor Hugo: The Tyrant of Padua (1946) Max Neufeld: Angels in America: Tony Kushner: Angels in America (2003, TV) Mike Nichols: Angyal: Melchior Lengyel: Angel (1937) Ernst Lubitsch: Anima allegra (1909, also known as Genio alegre) Quintero brothers ...