Sinclair Lewis

Nascimento : 1885-02-07,

Morte : 1951-01-10

Filmes

Babbitt
Novel
Sombras Sobre a Terra
Novel
Patriotic freedom fighters struggle against a fascist dictatorship in a near-future USA.
Entre Deus e o Pecado
Novel
Elmer Gantry (Burt Lancaster) é um caixeiro-viajante oportunista, imoral e alcoólatra que é convertido pela Irmã Sharon Falconer (Jean Simmons) e passa a viajar em sua companhia pelos Estados Unidos pregando e explorando novos fiéis. Ricos e famosos, eles constroem um templo, mas Gantry é abalado pelo reencontro com um antigo amor.
Majesty on a Detour
Novel
The new-rich mother of a film child who became famous overnight is trying to bring her little son together with the twelve-year-old king of a Balkan country, who is currently in Brussels, for validity and advertising reasons. The children actually get to know each other and run away with an 'Liftboy' to Antwerp for adventure.
Eterno Conflito
Novel
O juiz Cass Timberlane se casa com uma garota do lado errado dos trilhos, Virginia Marshland. Um bebê nasce morto e ela se volta cada vez mais para o advogado amigo de Cass ', Bradd Criley. Enquanto discutia, o juiz diz a Virginia para ficar com Bradd, mas quando ela fica doente, ele a traz para casa.
Como é Bom se Divertir
Original Story
Jiminy Cricket apresenta dois curtas de animação da Disney: "Bongo", sobre um urso de circo que foge para a vida selvagem, e uma visão de famoso conto de fadas em "Mickey e o Pé de Feijão", com Mickey, Donald e Pateta nos papéis principais.
Bongo
Story
Bongo, the performing bear, escapes from the circus and tries to adapt to life in the wild.
This Is the Life
Theatre Play
18-year-old Angela, reared in a New England town by her Aunt Betsy, receives an inheritance which she uses to go to New York, ostensibly for voice training, but she is pursuing Major Hilary Jarret, an Army surgeon with whom she has become infatuated. Her departure depresses her childhood friend Jimmy Plum. Dr. Plum devises an errand on which to send his love-sick son to New York, where Jimmy discovers Angela thinks she is Jarret's fiancée. Jimmy also renews acquaintances with a group of show people, including Sally McGuire, who attempts to console him. Jimmy meets Jarret's divorced wife, Harriet, famed photographer. Jimmy engineers a meeting of Jarret and Harriet with Angela present, which forms the beginning of an understanding that Jarret is not for her. Jimmy is inducted into the Army.
Untamed
Novel
A courageous doctor braves a fierce blizzard in the Canadian wilderness to save a remote community from a deadly epidemic. He has come North to visit and ends up stealing a wife from her husband. When the epidemic hits, he and the wife begin their arduous journey.
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Self
This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeches for films released in 1939 with recipients and presenters including Vivien Leigh, Judy Garland, Hattie McDaniel, Fay Bainter, Mickey Rooney, Thomas Mitchell, Sinclair Lewis, and more, with host Bob Hope.
Fogo de Outono
Novel
Um empresário se aposenta vendendo sua montadora de veículos e parte em uma viagem com sua esposa para a Europa, que está em negação sobre sua idade e usa a viagem como uma oportunidade de flertar com outros homens.
I Married a Doctor
Writer
City girl marries country doctor, meets prejudice and exclusion when she tries to befriend the townspeople.
Babbitt
Novel
Middle aged George F. Babbitt is a leading citizen in the town of Zenith, the fastest growing community in America according to its town sign. George is a large part of that growth as a property developer and realtor. He is lovingly married to his wife Myra, the two who have two children, Ted and Verona who are approaching adulthood. George has always had a fearless attitude, much like that of a naive child, which has led to his business success. He encounters some personal stresses when he faces what he believes is a potential home-wrecking issue, and when his oldest friend Paul and his wife Zilla deal with domestic problems. These stresses make George want to provide even more to his own family, leading to George agreeing to participate in a less than scrupulous but lucrative business dealing. George's bravura gets him into a potential scandal. This situation makes him question his general behavior, especially toward his family.
Ann Vickers
Novel
After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married judge and scandal looms again.
Arrowsmith
Novel
A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.
Newly Rich
Writer
Two small town widows bring their children to Hollywood, where their children become competing film stars. The girl is sweet, the boy is a killjoy sissy. For publicity, the rival families go to London to meet a middle European boy King. The three kids decide they need to escape their stifling lives and run away to the docks and join a gang.
Mantrap
Novel
A sexy young manicurist living with her older backwoodsman husband in a small Canadian town finds herself attracted to a young, rich and famous divorce lawyer who comes to town on vacation.
Camille: The Fate of a Coquette
Allegorical figures
A home movie version of the Dumas play. A young woman becomes a courtesan and tragedy befalls her. Appearances are made by many socialites of 1920s Paris and New York.
Babbitt
Novel
A small-town businessman bumbles into blackmail and a real-estate swindle.
Main Street
Novel
The arrival of pretty Carol Milford in the staid Midwestern town of Gopher Prairie really shakes up the locals.