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Robert Emmet Sherwood (1896-1955) was an American playwright whose penetrating dramas often showed an idealistic hero confronted with war.

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Sherwood was born in New Rochelle, N.Y., on April 4, 1896. He graduated from Milton Academy (1914) and from Harvard (1917).

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Rejected for service in World War I, he enlisted in the Canadian Black Watch; he was wounded and gassed. He worked for Vanity Fair magazine in 1919 and a year later joined the staff of Life magazine, becoming its film editor.

In 1922 he married Mary Brandon, an actress. Their daughter was born in 1923. He edited The Best Moving Pictures of 1922-23 and in 1924 became editor of Life. The first of his many film credits was Oh, What a Nurse! (1926).

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Sherwood made his stage debut with The Road to Rome (1927), a humorous, sophisticated treatment of Hannibal. Reunion in Vienna (1931) charmed audiences with its urbane comedy about an old love newly ignited.

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