
Newly added to the website we have this portrait of American playwright and screenwriter Robert E. Sherman.
He is the author of Waterloo Bridge, Idiot’s Delight, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, There Shall Be No Night, and The Best Years of Our Lives. He was a screenwriter on the adapted films Rebecca and The Bishop’s Wife. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1936, 1939, 1941), an Academy Award for Best Screenplay (1947) and a Pulitzer Prize for Biography (1948).
His Wikipedia entry has an unusual section:
Comments regarding Sherwood’s height
Sherwood stood 6 feet 8 inches tall. Dorothy Parker, who was 5 feet 4 inches, once commented that when she, Sherwood, and humorist Robert Benchley (6 feet) walked down the street together, they resembled “a walking pipe organ.” When asked at a party how long he had known Sherwood, Benchley stood on a chair, raised his hand to the ceiling, and said “I knew Bob Sherwood back when he was only this tall.”
