Donald Ogden Stewart

Donald Ogden Stewart

1894-11-30 Columbus, Ohio, USA 40 Credits

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.

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Love Affair

Love Affair

1994

Original Film Writer

5.4
Writing

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

Dinner at Eight

1989

Writer

3.0
Writing

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

Moment of Danger

1960

Screenplay

Writing

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

Escapade

1955

Screenplay

5.2
Writing

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

The Prisoner of Zenda

1952

Additional Dialogue

6.8

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

Edward, My Son

1949

Writer

6.5
Writing

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

Cass Timberlane

Cass Timberlane

1947

Screenplay, Adaptation

5.9
Writing

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

Life with Father

1947

Writer

6.6
Writing

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

Without Love

Without Love

1945

Screenplay

6.8
Writing

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

Keeper of the Flame

1943

Screenplay

6.6
Writing

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

Forever and a Day

Forever and a Day

1943

Writer

7.4
Writing

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

Tales of Manhattan

1942

Writer

6.3
Writing

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

Smilin' Through

1941

Screenplay

6.0
Writing

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

A Woman's Face

1941

Screenplay

6.9
Writing

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

That Uncertain Feeling

1941

Screenplay

6.5
Writing

A happily married woman sees a psychoanalyst and develops doubts about her husband.

Kitty Foyle

Kitty Foyle

1940

Additional Dialogue

6.6

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

The Philadelphia Story

The Philadelphia Story

1940

Screenplay

7.6
Writing

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

The Night of Nights

1939

Screenplay

Writing

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

The Women

1939

Screenplay

7.1
Writing

A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.

Love Affair

Love Affair

1939

Screenplay

7.0
Writing

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

Marie Antoinette

1938

Screenplay

6.6
Writing

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

Holiday

1938

Screenplay

7.3
Writing

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

The Prisoner of Zenda

1937

Additional Dialogue, Dialogue

7.4

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

No More Ladies

1935

as Drunk (uncredited)

5.1
Acting

A society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous.

No More Ladies

No More Ladies

1935

Screenplay

5.1
Writing

A society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous.

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

1934

Screenplay

6.0
Writing

Remarkable poet Elizabeth Barrett is slowly recovering from a crippling illness with the help of her siblings, especially her youngest sister, Henriet...

Manhattan Melodrama

Manhattan Melodrama

1934

Screenplay

7.0
Writing

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

Going Hollywood

1933

Screenplay

5.5
Writing

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

Dinner at Eight

1933

Additional Dialogue

6.7

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

Another Language

1933

Writer

6.3
Writing

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

The White Sister

The White Sister

1933

Screenplay

5.4
Writing

An Italian aristocrat enters a nunnery, thinking her pilot lover has been killed in the war.

Red Dust

Red Dust

1932

Additional Writing

7.0

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

Smilin' Through

1932

Dialogue

6.0

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

Rebound

1931

Author

4.3

A woman struggles to rekindle the affection of her husband.

Tarnished Lady

Tarnished Lady

1931

Screenplay, Story

4.7
Writing

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

Finn and Hattie

1931

Novel

5.3

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

Laughter

1930

Screenplay

5.0
Writing

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

Not So Dumb

1930

as Van Dyke

5.1
Acting

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

5.0
Directing

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

Brown of Harvard

1926

Adaptation

5.6

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...