Biography
Donald Ogden Stewart was born on November 30, 1894 in Columbus, Ohio, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for The Philadelphia Story (1940), Holiday (1938) and Life with Father (1947). He was married to Ella Winter and Beatrice Ames. He died on August 2, 1980 in London, England.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Love Affair
1994
Original Film Writer
Ex-football star Mike Gambril meets Terry McKay on a flight to Sydney, which is forced to land on a small atoll. They become romantic on board a ship ...

Dinner at Eight
1989
Writer
Society matron Millicent Jordan arranges a dinner party to honor some visiting aristocrat oblivious to the health and financial problems of her husban...

Moment of Danger
1960
Screenplay
Having been coerced unto helping a criminal pull off a jewellery theft, a locksmith is double crossed by the crook and heads off to Spain with an eye ...

Escapade
1955
Screenplay
An English pacifist's (John Mills) sons run away from school and hijack a plane to Vienna to petition for peace.

The Prisoner of Zenda
1952
Additional Dialogue
A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king ...

Edward, My Son
1949
Writer
Following the death of his only son, a ruthless businessman reflects on his life, his unhappy marriage and his questionable parenting skills.

Cass Timberlane
1947
Screenplay, Adaptation
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 attorne...

Life with Father
1947
Writer
A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.

Without Love
1945
Screenplay
In World War II Washington DC, scientist Pat Jamieson's assistant, Jamie Rowan, enters a loveless marriage with him. Struggles bring them closer toget...

Keeper of the Flame
1943
Screenplay
Famed reporter Stephen O'Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero.

Forever and a Day
1943
Writer
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, ...

Tales of Manhattan
1942
Writer
Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by its tailor has on those who wear it. The video relea...

Smilin' Through
1941
Screenplay
John Carteret has long been depressed and lonely, because, at his wedding years ago, his bride, Moonyean, was murdered. He accepts into his house Kath...

A Woman's Face
1941
Screenplay
A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.

That Uncertain Feeling
1941
Screenplay
A happily married woman sees a psychoanalyst and develops doubts about her husband.

Kitty Foyle
1940
Additional Dialogue
A hard-working, white-collar girl falls in love with a young socialite, but meets with his family's disapproval.

The Philadelphia Story
1940
Screenplay
When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.

The Night of Nights
1939
Screenplay
A playwright has his career ruined when he is drunk on the first night. His wife dies having left him, and when his daughter triumphs in the revival o...

The Women
1939
Screenplay
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.

Love Affair
1939
Screenplay
A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship. They arrange to reunite six months later, if neither has changed ...

Marie Antoinette
1938
Screenplay
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the riv...

Holiday
1938
Screenplay
Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent millionair...

The Prisoner of Zenda
1937
Additional Dialogue, Dialogue
A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king ...

No More Ladies
1935
as Drunk (uncredited)
A society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous.

No More Ladies
1935
Screenplay
A society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous.

The Barretts of Wimpole Street
1934
Screenplay
Remarkable poet Elizabeth Barrett is slowly recovering from a crippling illness with the help of her siblings, especially her youngest sister, Henriet...

Manhattan Melodrama
1934
Screenplay
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.

Going Hollywood
1933
Screenplay
The film tells the story of Sylvia, a French teacher at an all-girl school, who wants to find love. When she hears Bill Williams on the radio, she dec...

Dinner at Eight
1933
Additional Dialogue
An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of t...

Another Language
1933
Writer
A newlywed discovers that she and her husband's snobby family speak different languages.

The White Sister
1933
Screenplay
An Italian aristocrat enters a nunnery, thinking her pilot lover has been killed in the war.

Red Dust
1932
Additional Writing
Dennis, owner of a rubber plantation in Cochinchina, is involved with Vantine, who left Saigon to evade the police. When his new surveyor arrives alon...

Smilin' Through
1932
Dialogue
On the day of his wedding, Sir John Carteret's fiancée, Moonyeen, is killed by a jealous rival named Jeremy, leaving him emotionally devastated. Carte...

Rebound
1931
Author
A woman struggles to rekindle the affection of her husband.

Tarnished Lady
1931
Screenplay, Story
Nancy Courtney, a once wealthy socialite, has had to struggle to maintain a facade of prosperity ever since her father's death. Although she loves wri...

Finn and Hattie
1931
Novel
The Haddocks are going on a European vacation and from their reception at the station, where the whole town goes to see them off, it is clear who wear...

Laughter
1930
Screenplay
Zeigfeld Follies beauty Peggy marries an older man, C. Morton Gibson. Although she soon grows tired of their sedate life, she refuses the attentions o...

Not So Dumb
1930
as Van Dyke
Not-so-smart chatterbox Dulcy Parker does and says all the wrong things, but they right themselves to prove she's not so dumb after all.
Traffic Regulations
1929
Director
A speaker on a stage presents a report on the traffic conditions in the theater district of New York City, which he says have improved considerably. A...

Brown of Harvard
1926
Adaptation
Tom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew, not only in football and rowing crew, but also for th...