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name: "Donald Ogden Stewart"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/donald-ogden-stewart"
roles: ["Screenwriter"]
born: "30 November 1894"
died: "2 August 1980"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T11:55:02.703751+00:00"
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# Donald Ogden Stewart

Screenwriter. Born 30 November 1894 in Columbus, Ohio, USA. Died 2 August 1980.

## Details

- **Work:** Screenwriter
- **Born:** 30 November 1894, Columbus, Ohio, USA
- **Died:** 2 August 1980
- **Also known as:** Gilbert Holland

## Biography

Donald Ogden Stewart was an American writer and screenwriter. Born on 30 November 1894 in Columbus, Ohio, he graduated from Yale University and began publishing humorous writing in the early 1920s. He was a member of the Algonquin Round Table and wrote plays as well as screenplays.

Stewart is best known for his work adapting plays and novels for the screen in the 1930s and 1940s. His credits include the screenplays for *Holiday* (1938), *The Women* (1939), *Love Affair* (1939) and *The Philadelphia Story* (1940), for which he received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He also contributed to *Manhattan Melodrama* (1934), *The Prisoner of Zenda* (1937) and *Life with Father* (1947). He was blacklisted in the early 1950s and subsequently lived in England until his death on 2 August 1980 in London.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, britannica.com, catalog.afi.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Philadelphia Story* (1940), Fi1m 84, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-philadelphia-story.md)

## Also known for

- *Holiday* (1938), Screenplay
- *The Women* (1939), Screenplay
- *Love Affair* (1939), Screenplay
- *Manhattan Melodrama* (1934), Screenplay
- *A Woman's Face* (1941), Screenplay
- *Life with Father* (1947), Writer
- *Love Affair* (1994), Original Film Writer
- *The Prisoner of Zenda* (1937), Dialogue

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