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Idiot's Delight is a 1939 MGM comedy drama with a screenplay adapted by Robert E. Sherwood from his 1936 Pulitzer-Prize-winning play of the same name. The production reunited director Clarence Brown, Clark Gable and Norma Shearer eight years after they worked together on A Free Soul. The play takes place in a hotel in the Italian Alps during 24 ...
Cover of Sherwood's play There Shall Be No Night. Robert Emmet Sherwood (April 4, 1896 – November 14, 1955) was an American playwright and screenwriter.. He is the author of Waterloo Bridge, Idiot's Delight, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, There Shall Be No Night, and The Best Years of Our Lives.
The Pulitzer jury wrote: "We are absolutely in complete agreement in recommending 'Idiot's delight' ...It is a first-rate play, full of dramatic invention, and one or two of the comedy scenes have a Molierian richness." [4] Sherwood adapted the play into a 1939 film of the same name, starring Norma Shearer and Clark Gable.
William Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960) was an American film actor. Often referred to as the "King of Hollywood", [2] he had roles in more than 60 films in a variety of genres during a career that lasted 37 years, for three decades of which he was a leading man.
Dance a Little Closer is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Charles Strouse. The story is an updated version of Robert E. Sherwood 's 1936 antiwar comedy Idiot's Delight .
How did that madcap song and dance 'Good Afternoon' come together in Apple TV+'s 'Spirited'? A lot of tap-dancing takes for stars Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell, for one.
A fourth user summed it up: “Give Glenn Close an Oscar for that pls.” Earlier during the game, Close suggested that Daniel Kaluuya was too young to know Donna Summer’s “Last Dance.”
Idiot's Delight, a pejorative term for any patience or card solitaire; Idiot's Delight is also an alternative name for the following patiences or card solitaires: Aces Up, a game which is playable in a minimal space; King Albert (solitaire), believed to be named after King Albert of Belgium