Writing
Sinclair Lewis
Born February 6, 1885 · Sauk Centre, Minnesota, USA
Died January 10, 1951 · aged 65
Harry Sinclair Lewis was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first author from the United States (and the first from the Americas) to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters." Lewis wrote six popular novels: Main Stree…
Known For
Fun and Fancy Free · 1947Fun and Fancy Free
★ 6.31947
MovieAnimationFamily
Jiminy Cricket hosts two Disney animated shorts: Bongo about a circus bear escaping to the wild, and Mickey and the Beanstalk, a take on the famous fairy tale.
Elmer Gantry · 1960Elmer Gantry
★ 7.31960
MovieDrama
A charismatic charlatan begins a business — and eventually romantic — relationship with a roadside evangelist to sell religion to 1920s America. Based on Sinclair Lewis' novel of the same name.
Cass Timberlane · 1947Cass Timberlane
★ 6.01947
MovieDramaRomance
Judge Cass Timberlane marries a girl from the wrong side of the tracks, Virginia Marshland. A baby is stillborn and she turns more and more to attorney friend of of Cass' Brad Criley. While quarreling the Judge tells Virginia to stay with Brad, but when she becomes sick he brings her home.
Dodsworth · 1936Dodsworth
★ 7.11936
MovieDramaRomance
A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.
Babbitt · 1924Babbitt
★ 8.01924
MovieDrama
A small-town businessman bumbles into blackmail and a real-estate swindle.
Arrowsmith · 1931Arrowsmith
★ 6.61931
MovieDrama
A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.
Ann Vickers · 1933Ann Vickers
★ 5.81933
MovieDramaRomance
After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married judge and scandal looms again.
Bongo · 1947Bongo
★ 6.41947
MovieAnimationComedy
Bongo, the performing bear, escapes from the circus and tries to adapt to life in the wild.
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