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- Zoe Akins est née le 30 octobre 1886 dans le Missouri, États-Unis. Elle était scénariste. Elle est connue pour Comment épouser un millionnaire (1953), La Phalène d'argent (1933) et Outcast Lady (1934). Elle était mariée à Hugo C.L. Rumbold. Elle est morte le 29 octobre 1958 en Californie, États-Unis.
- ConjointHugo C.L. Rumbold(13 mars 1932 - 19 novembre 1932) (son décès)
- Great-aunt of Laurie Metcalf.
- Was the first writer considered by Universal Pictures to write the screenplay for Show Boat (1936), the film version of the famed Broadway musical, but her screen treatment was ultimately rejected and Oscar Hammerstein II adapted his own stage script for the film.
- Father: Thomas J. Akins; Mother: Elizabeth Green.
- Husband Hugo Rumbold was a famed stage designer known the world over. They lived on an estate called Green Fountains at 2401 Brigden Road in Pasadena,, CA, after their 1932 marriage.
- Won the 1935 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the play "The Old Maid".
- To accuse is so easy that it is infamous to do so where proof is impossible!
- There's a great strangeness about love. Yes, I'm very sure that love is the strangest thing in the world-much stranger than death, or just life.
- I am the wind that wavers / You are the certain land / I am the shadow that passes / Over the sand.
- Work alone qualifies us for life. It is much more exquisite to be blown from the tree as a flower than to be shaken down as a shriveled and bitter fruit.
- My life is like water that has gone over the dam and turned no mill wheels. Here I am, not happy, but not unhappy, as my days run on to the sea, idly - but not too swiftly, for I love living.
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