Robert Ingersoll Wilder (January 25, 1901 – August 22, 1974) was an American novelist , playwright and screenwriter .
5-528: Flamingo Road may refer to: Flamingo Road (novel) , a 1942 novel by Robert Wilder Flamingo Road (film) , a 1949 film by Michael Curtiz starring Joan Crawford, from the novel by Robert Wilder Flamingo Road (TV series) , (1980–1982) from the novel by Robert Wilder Florida State Road 823 , in part Flamingo Road, a major north–south road in Broward County, Florida Flamingo Road (Las Vegas) ,
10-454: A road Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Flamingo Road . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Flamingo_Road&oldid=1188479629 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
15-547: A time when Wilder was living in Bayside, New York. Probably Wilder's best-known book is the novel Flamingo Road (1942). With his wife, Sally, he adapted it into the 1946 play of the same name. He then wrote the screenplay for the 1949 movie version , featuring Joan Crawford . He wrote one of the screenplays for the Western The Big Country (1958), directed by William Wyler . A later novel, Wind from
20-490: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Robert Wilder (novelist) Wilder was the son of a minister-turned-lawyer-turned-doctor-turned-dentist who was still going to college when his son was born. Wilder's childhood was spent at Daytona Beach, Florida . After a stint with the U.S. Army during World War I , he was educated at Stetson University and Columbia University . At various times in his life, Mr. Wilder
25-507: Was a soda jerk , a ship fitter, a theater usher, a shipping clerk, a newspaper copyboy , boss of a criminal gang, "a publicity agent" ( Claudette Colbert was among his clients), a radio executive, and a journalist (for The New York Sun ). Wilder traveled widely and contributed stories to The New Yorker , among other publications. Two of his plays were Sweet Chariot , based on the life and career of African-American activist Marcus Garvey , and Stardust , both produced on Broadway, at
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