Zoe Akins

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Female

Birthday

1886-10-20 (72 years old)

Deathday

1958-10-29

Place of Birth

Humansville, Missouri, USA

Zoe Akins

Biography

From Wikipedia Zoë Akins (October 30, 1886 – October 29, 1958) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright, poet, and author. In the early 1930s, Akins became more active in film, writing several screenplays as well as licensing minor adaptations of her work—such as The Greeks Had a Word for It which was adapted twice, in 1932 (as The Greeks Had a Word for Them) and 1938 (as Three Blind Mice) – neither was a hit. Two highlights of this period are the films Sarah and Son (1930) and Morning Glory (1933), the latter film remade as Stage Struck. While both films earned their respective female leads (Ruth Chatterton and Katharine Hep...

Production

1959

1938

The Toy Wife

as Screenplay

1947

Desire Me

as Writer

1936

Camille

as Screenplay

1931

1938

Zaza

as Screenplay

1939

The Old Maid

as Theatre Play

1933

Christopher Strong

as Screenplay

1958

Stage Struck

as Theatre Play

1933

Morning Glory

as Theatre Play

1930

Sarah and Son

as Adaptation

1936

Accused

as Story

1936

Accused

as Screenplay

1934

Outcast Lady

as Screenplay

1953

1930

1930

Ladies Love Brutes

as Theatre Play

1931

Once a Lady

as Writer

1930

Sarah and Son

as Screenplay

1936

Lady of Secrets

as Screenplay

1925

Daddy's Gone A-Hunting

as Theatre Play

1925

Déclassé

as Theatre Play

1930

1937

Conquest

as Writer

1931

Working Girls

as Screenplay

1930

Sarah and Son

as Dialogue

1930

Anybody's Woman

as Dialogue

1929

1925

Eve's Secret

as Theatre Play

1930

A Whole Life

as Adaptation

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