Originally a reporter, he collaborated with George S. Kaufman in the 1920s on a string of successful Broadway plays, then won the 1930 Pulitzer Prize for his most celebrated play The Green Pastures. Among the many films adapted by others from his plays or original stories are DULCY TO THE LADIES (1923), MERTON OF THE MOVIES (1924, 1947), BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK (1925), HELEN OF TROY (1927), NOT SO DUMB (from Dulcy, 1930) MAKE ME A STAR (1932), ELMER AND ELSIE (1934) and THE FARMER TAKES A WIFE (1953). In addition he wrote a number of screenplays directly for films, alone or in collaboration. He directed many stage plays and co-directed the film version of THE GREEN PASTURES (1936). A member of the famed Algonquin Roundtable, he was a professor at Yale and wrote short stories and a novel, From Quam (1965), and Voices of Stage: A Book of Memoirs (1968). Once married to screen actress Madeline Hublock.    Nominated for Writing (Screenplay) 1937: CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS (w. John Lee Mahin & Dale Van Every) 1 nomination