Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

Harry Sinclair Lewis was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first author from the United States (and the first from the Americas) to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters." Lewis wrote six popular novels: Main Street (1920), Babbitt (1922), Arrowsmith (1925), Elmer Gantry (1927), Dodsworth (1929), and It Can't Happen Here (1935). Several of his notable works were critical of American capitalism and materialism during the interwar period. Lewis is respected for his strong characterizations of modern working women. H. L. Mencken wrote of him, "[If] there was ever a novelist among us with an authentic call to the trade ... it is this red-haired tornado from the Minnesota wilds."

  • Title: Sinclair Lewis
  • Popularity: 0.6854
  • Known For: Writing
  • Birthday: 1885-02-06
  • Place of Birth: Sauk Centre, Minnesota, USA
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Sinclair Lewis Movies

  • 1926
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    Camille: The Fate of a Coquette

    Camille: The Fate of a Coquette

    4.2 1926 HD

    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.

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  • 1940
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    Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

    Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

    6.5 1940 HD

    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.

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  • 1960
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    Elmer Gantry

    Elmer Gantry

    7.246 1960 HD

    A charismatic charlatan begins a business — and eventually romantic — relationship with a roadside evangelist to sell religion to 1920s America. Based on Sinclair Lewis' novel of the same name.

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  • 1926
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    Mantrap

    Mantrap

    6 1926 HD

    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.

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  • 1931
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    Arrowsmith

    Arrowsmith

    6.6 1931 HD

    A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.

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  • 1934
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    Babbitt

    Babbitt

    6 1934 HD

    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.

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  • 1936
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    I Married a Doctor

    I Married a Doctor

    4.7 1936 HD

    City girl marries country doctor, meets prejudice and exclusion when she tries to befriend the townspeople.

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  • 1969
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    Babbitt

    Babbitt

    1 1969 HD

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  • 1936
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    Dodsworth

    Dodsworth

    7.113 1936 HD

    A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.

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  • 1947
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    Cass Timberlane

    Cass Timberlane

    5.5 1947 HD

    Judge Cass Timberlane marries a girl from the wrong side of the tracks, Virginia Marshland. A baby is stillborn and she turns more and more to attorney friend of of Cass' Brad Criley. While quarreling the Judge tells Virginia to stay with Brad, but when she becomes sick he brings her home.

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  • 1922
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    Free Air

    Free Air

    1 1922 HD

    Free Air is a 1922 American silent comedy drama film directed by Edward H. Griffith and starring Tom Douglas, Marjorie Seaman and Henry G. Sell. It is an adaptation of the 1919 novel "Free Air" by Sinclair Lewis.

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  • 1923
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    Main Street

    Main Street

    4 1923 HD

    The arrival of pretty Carol Milford in the staid Midwestern town of Gopher Prairie really shakes up the locals.

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  • 1968
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    Shadow on the Land

    Shadow on the Land

    8 1968 HD

    Patriotic freedom fighters struggle against a fascist dictatorship in a near-future USA.

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  • 1933
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    Ann Vickers

    Ann Vickers

    5.455 1933 HD

    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.

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  • 1931
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    Newly Rich

    Newly Rich

    3 1931 HD

    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.

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  • 1940
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    Untamed

    Untamed

    4.2 1940 HD

    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.

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  • 1944
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    This Is the Life

    This Is the Life

    5 1944 HD

    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.

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  • 1947
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    Bongo

    Bongo

    6.4 1947 HD

    Bongo, the performing bear, escapes from the circus and tries to adapt to life in the wild.

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  • 1924
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    Babbitt

    Babbitt

    1 1924 HD

    A small-town businessman bumbles into blackmail and a real-estate swindle.

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  • 1958
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    Majesty on a Detour

    Majesty on a Detour

    1 1958 HD

    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.

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  • 1947
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    Fun and Fancy Free

    Fun and Fancy Free

    6.275 1947 HD

    Jiminy Cricket hosts two Disney animated shorts: Bongo about a circus bear escaping to the wild, and Mickey and the Beanstalk, a take on the famous fairy tale.

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  • 1947
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    Fun and Fancy Free

    Fun and Fancy Free

    6.275 1947 HD

    Jiminy Cricket hosts two Disney animated shorts: Bongo about a circus bear escaping to the wild, and Mickey and the Beanstalk, a take on the famous fairy tale.

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  • 1919
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    The Unpainted Woman

    The Unpainted Woman

    1 1919 HD

    Gudrun works in the American wheat country as a hired girl to Mrs. Hawes. Charley Holt, the son of a rich family, takes the Swedish girl to a dance where she is snubbed by his mother and sister. Furious by his elitist relatives, Charley marries Gudrun and gets a menial job as a mill worker.

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  • 1970
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    1 1970 HD

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