Zod Akins

Playwright, Screenwriter

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Birth Place

Humansville, Missouri, USA

Born

October 30, 1886

Died

October 29, 1958

Filmography

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How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale (2000)

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Dresser, The (1983) -- (Movie Clip) Stop That Train!

Camille (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Buy Me Some Sweets

Family & Companions

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Jobyna Howland

Companion

Actor. Were companions from c. 1920 until Akins' death.

Hugo Rumbold

Husband

Painter, set designer. British; married on March 12, 1932; considered a marriage of convenience; died in November 1932.

Biography

Filmography

Writer (Feature Film)

How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale (2000)

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Dresser, The (1983) -- (Movie Clip) Stop That Train! Norman (Tom Courtenay, title character) leads the way as the aging Shakespearean company led by "Sir" (Albert Finney) attempts a wartime change of trains, in The Dresser, 1983, from Ronald Harwood's play and screenplay.

Camille (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Buy Me Some Sweets Mid 19th-century Paris courtesan Marguerite (Greta Garbo) thinks Armand (Robert Taylor) is the Baron with whom she's being set up, as they first meet at the theater, until her friend Prudence (Laura Hope Crews) shows up, in MGM's Camille, 1936.

Camille (1936) -- (Movie Clip) You Look Ill, Too Feeling faint at a party, consumptive Marguerite (Greta Garbo, title character) retreats, followed by Armand (Robert Taylor) who professes his feelings, in MGM's Camille, 1936, from the Alexandre Dumas fils novel.

Camille (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Marguerite Gautier A mild literary prologue then the introduction of Marguerite (Greta Garbo), as the "lady of the camelias," thus the name of the story, with friend prudence (Laura Hope Crews), George Cukor directing, in MGM's Camille, 1936.

Old Maid, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Every Shot Will Make You Richer Civil War troop train leaving Philadelphia, Charlotte (Bette Davis) seeks Clem (George Brent), to the surprise of her cousin Delia (Miriam Hopkins), to whom he was once engaged, and who is now married to a munitions manufacturer, in The Old Maid, 1939, from an Edith Wharton novel.

Old Maid, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Socially Important Opening the first of two famous pairings of formidable actors (see Old Acquaintance, 1943), Miriam Hopkins as pre-nuptial Delia, Bette Davis her cousin, de-facto sister, Charlotte, Cecilia Loftus their mutual grandmother, Donald Crisp the family doctor, in The Old Maid, 1939, from the Edith Wharton novel.

How To Marry A Millionaire -- (Movie Clip) Those Income Tax People Director Jean Negulesco beginning with slick shots of Manhattan, landing in Midtown East at Sutton Place, equally sharp Lauren Bacall (as "Schatze") confers with the rental agent (Percy Helton), in How To Marry A Millionaire, 1953, also starring Betty Grable and Marilyn Monroe.

How To Marry A Millionaire (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Only One Cure For Loneliness Director Jean Negulesco has skipped the actual event at “The Oil Institue,” instead following gold-digging models Schatze (Lauren Bacall, with William Powell), Loco (Betty Grable, with Fred Clark) and Pola (Marilyn Monroe, with Alex D’Arcy) dining with the men they met, in How To Marry A Millionaire, 1953.

Desire Me (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Sounds Like A Man Going Home SPOILER here, as we see that ex-POW Paul (Robert Mitchum) really is alive and returning to Brittany, where his wife Marise (Greer Garson), believing him dead, is selling his business (to Morris Ankrum) and is near to marrying his ex-comrade Jean (Richard Hart), who kind-of left him to die, in the MGM wartime melodrama Desire Me, 1947.

How To Marry A Millionaire (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Is There A Mr. Texaco? Now gathered in their posh Sutton Place apartment setting about grabbing husbands, Schatze (Lauren Bacall), Pola (Marilyn Monroe) and Loco (Betty Grable) begin by selling the rented piano, in Jean Negulesco's How To Marry A Millionaire, 1953.

Old Maid, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Since You Went Out West First scene after a history montage ending the Civil War and killing their former almost-mutual boyfriend, now-married Delia (Miriam Hopkins) visits the orphanage run by cousin Charlotte (Bette Davis), promoting her brother-in-law, Marlene Burnett the featured waif, in The Old Maid, 1939.

Christopher Strong (1933) -- (Movie Clip) -- I've Always Wanted To Fly Katharine Hepburn's first scene in her second movie, as aviatrix Cynthia, captured by Harry (Ralph Forbes) on a treasure-hunt, Colin Clive (title character) also a trophy for his daughter, Harry's girlfriend, Monica (Helen Chandler), in Christopher Strong, 1933, directed by Dorothy Arzner.

Companions

Jobyna Howland

Companion

Actor. Were companions from c. 1920 until Akins' death.

Hugo Rumbold

Husband

Painter, set designer. British; married on March 12, 1932; considered a marriage of convenience; died in November 1932.

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