Henry James

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1843 age 0

   Born

2. 1916 age 72

   Died

3. 1949 age 72

   CreditThe Heiressscreenwriter

• OHOlivia de Havilland1 title
• RCRay Collins1 title
• WWWilliam Wyler1 title
• EHEdith Head1 title
• WHWilliam Hornbeck1 title
• RRRalph Richardson1 title
• MCMontgomery Clift1 title
• MFMona Freeman1 title
• LLLouise Lorimer1 title
• VBVanessa Brown1 title

• [of Henry Fielding's Tom Jones] [it is] like a vast episode in a sermon preached by a grandly humorous divine; and however we may be entertained by the way, we must not forget that our ultimate duty is to be instructed.

  Henry James, CC BY-SA 4.0

• In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons.

  Henry James, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I haven't a creature to talk to...How in Boston, when the evening arrives, and I am tired of reading, and know it would be better to do something else, can I go to the theater? I have tried it, ad nauseam. Likewise calling. Upon whom?"

  Henry James, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Everything about Florence seems to be coloured with a mild violet, like diluted wine.

  Henry James, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination... To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.

  Henry James, CC BY-SA 4.0

• It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.

  Henry James, CC BY-SA 4.0