---
name: "Zoë Akins"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/zoe-akins"
fi1m_id: "zoe-akins"
imdb_id: "nm0015399"
tmdb_id: 1244303
wikidata_id: "Q227109"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "20 October 1886"
died: "29 October 1958"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T02:27:30.896088+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Zoë Akins

## Identity

Zoë Akins

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/zoe-akins
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** zoe-akins
- **IMDb ID:** nm0015399
- **TMDB ID:** 1244303
- **Wikidata ID:** Q227109
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoe_Akins, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q227109, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0015399/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1244303

Writer. Born 20 October 1886 in Humansville, Missouri, USA. Died 29 October 1958.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 20 October 1886, Humansville, Missouri, USA
- **Died:** 29 October 1958
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoe_Akins, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q227109, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0015399/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1244303

## Biography

Zoë Akins was an American playwright and screenwriter. Born in Humansville, Missouri, she began her career writing for the stage in the 1910s and achieved Broadway success with plays including *The Greeks Had a Word for It* (1930) and her adaptation *The Old Maid* (1935).

In 1935 Akins won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for *The Old Maid*. She also wrote screenplays in Hollywood, including *Morning Glory* (1933) and, with Frances Marion and James Hilton, *Camille* (1936). Several of her plays were adapted for film, among them *The Old Maid* (1939) and *How to Marry a Millionaire* (1953).

Akins died in Los Angeles in 1958.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, ibdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Camille* (1936), Fi1m 82, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/camille.md)

## Complete filmography (32)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Sad Horse* (1959), Story
- *Stage Struck* (1958), Theatre Play
- *The Day I Met Caruso* (1956), Writer
- *The Bitter Waters* (1956), Teleplay
- *Matinee Theater* (1955), series, Writer
- *Screen Director's Playhouse* (1955), series, Writer
- *How to Marry a Millionaire* (1953), Theatre Play
- *Desire Me* (1947), Screenplay
- *The Old Maid* (1939), Theatre Play
- *Zaza* (1939), Screenplay
- *The Toy Wife* (1938), Screenplay
- *Conquest* (1937), Writer
- *Camille* (1936), Screenplay — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/camille.md)
- *Accused* (1936), Story, Screenplay
- *Lady of Secrets* (1936), Screenplay
- *Outcast Lady* (1934), Screenplay
- *Morning Glory* (1933), Theatre Play
- *Christopher Strong* (1933), Screenplay
- *The Greeks Had a Word for Them* (1932), Theatre Play
- *Working Girls* (1931), Screenplay
- *Girls About Town* (1931), Writer
- *Once a Lady* (1931), Writer
- *Women Love Once* (1931), Theatre Play
- *The Right to Love* (1930), Writer
- *A Whole Life* (1930), Adaptation
- *Anybody's Woman* (1930), Writer, Dialogue
- *Ladies Love Brutes* (1930), Theatre Play
- *Sarah and Son* (1930), Adaptation, Screenplay, Dialogue
- *Her Private Life* (1929), Writer
- *Eve's Secret* (1925), Theatre Play
- *Déclassé* (1925), Theatre Play
- *Daddy's Gone A-Hunting* (1925), Theatre Play

## Gallery

- ![Zoë Akins](https://film.one/media/person/3856756/gallery-8bf23f8b4af3.jpg) Zoë Akins — KAJIWARA PHOTO, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/Zoe_Akins%2C_Kajiwara_Photo.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Title: Zoe Akins.](https://film.one/media/person/3856756/gallery-46695b15ca22.jpg) Title: Zoe Akins. — Grace and Wilhelmina Parrish, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Zoe_Akins.jpg/1280px-Zoe_Akins.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Pulitzer Prize for Drama 1935: Pulitzer Prize for Drama (won), for *The Old Maid*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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