Robert E. Sherwood

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1896 age 0

   Born

2. 1940 age 44

   CreditRebeccascreenwriter

3. 1946 age 50

   CreditThe Best Years of Our Livesscreenwriter

4. 1947 age 51

   CreditThe Bishop's Wifescreenwriter

5. 1955 age 59

   Died

• GTGregg Toland2 titles
• GCGladys Cooper2 titles
• HFHugo Friedhofer2 titles
• SGSamuel Goldwyn2 titles
• GCGino Corrado1 title
• IJIsabel Jewell1 title
• LDLester Dorr1 title
• DSDavid O. Selznick1 title
• RCRay Collins1 title
• ESErskine Sanford1 title

• In those hours and days that followed Pearl Harbor the city of Washington was afflicted with jitters. Some people who knew the extent of the damage that the Japs had inflicted, were talking darkly of disaster. They were talking of the imminence of grave danger to our country—even of the possibility of Japanese invasion of our West Coast, or of Nazi raids on our East Coast. I didn’t know how real or how valid these fears might be. But—when I went into the presence of the president himself—I heard no talk of "disaster," no jitters. I knew that I was back in America. The president loved those ships that were hit at Pearl Harbor. When they were hit, it was as if the Japs had hit his own family. But he knew—he knew with all the confidence of a loyal American—he knew that no Japs and no Nazis—nor all the Japs and all the Nazis put together—could ever deliver a knockout blow against this country. He knew—better, perhaps, than any man who ever lived—he knew what Americans are and what American

  Robert E. Sherwood, CC BY-SA 4.0

Nationalities

United States

Cause of death

myocardial infarction

Languages

English

Years active

1926–

Notable works

Waterloo Bridge

Education

Fay School, Harvard University, Milton Academy