Sidney Howard

b. Sidney Coe Howard, 26 June 1891, Oakland, California, USA, d. 23 August 1939, Tyringham, Massachusetts, USA. A respected and distinguished playwright, Howard gained considerable success in the theatre with plays such as Swords (1921), Casanova (1923, which he translated from Lorenzo De Azertis' original and which was staged with incidental music by Deems Taylor), Bewitched (1924, co-written with Edward Sheldon), Ned McCobb's Daughter (1926, film 1928), Half Gods (1929, filmed a year later as Free Love), The Silver Cord (1933), The Late Christopher Bean (1932, filmed as Chri...