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- Height6′ 1″ (1.85 m)
- Donald Ogden Stewart was born on November 30, 1894 in Columbus, Ohio, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for The Philadelphia Story (1940), Not So Dumb (1930) and An Affair to Remember (1957). He was married to Leonore (Ella) Sophie Winter Steffens and Beatrice Ames. He died on August 2, 1980 in London, England, UK.
- SpousesLeonore (Ella) Sophie Winter Steffens(1939 - August 2, 1980) (his death)Beatrice Ames(1924 - 1938) (divorced, 2 children)
- Black-listed for Communism in 1950.
- Emigrated to England in 1951, to avoid consequences of the black-list. He lived there until his death.
- Trapped abroad (UK) when US State Dept refused to renew his regular passport. Considered a threat to US security.
- Noted for his satirical observations of American high society, best exemplified by "The Philadelphia Story".
- Was proudest of his work in "Keeper of the Flame.".
- I don't think David Selznick was in a class with Irving Thalberg. He was the kind of producer who would shoot everything and then really begin making the picture in the cutting room... quite an expensive process, but with David it seemed to work.
- I got terribly interested in being a good screenwriter and worked terribly hard at it. The competition was terribly hard - you couldn't make mistakes because there were other writers waiting to step in and fix your script up the way you were fixing somebody else's. One of the first things you had to learn was not to let them break your heart because if you really put yourself into a script and began creating and cared terribly about it, then the producer, director, and the star would go to work on it, and they could break your heart with what they would do to something you were very proud of.
- Brown of Harvard (1926) - $250 /week
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