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Edwin Justus Mayer(1896-1960)

  • Writer
  • Script and Continuity Department
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Edwin Justus Mayer was born on 8 November 1896 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for To Be or Not to Be (1942), Midnight (1939) and Wild Girl (1932). He was previously married to Mrs. Frances O'Neill McIntyre. He died on 11 September 1960 in New York City, New York, USA.
BornNovember 8, 1896
DiedSeptember 11, 1960(63)
BornNovember 8, 1896
DiedSeptember 11, 1960(63)
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Known for

Jack Benny and Carole Lombard in To Be or Not to Be (1942)
To Be or Not to Be
8.2
  • Writer
  • 1942
Don Ameche and Claudette Colbert in Midnight (1939)
Midnight
7.9
  • Writer
  • 1939
Joan Bennett and Charles Farrell in Wild Girl (1932)
Wild Girl
6.4
  • Writer
  • 1932
Lilian Harvey and Gene Raymond in I Am Suzanne! (1933)
I Am Suzanne!
7.3
  • Writer
  • 1933

Credits

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Writer

  • To Be or Not to Be (1983)
    To Be or Not to Be
    • Writer (1942 screenplay)
    • 1983
  • Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner in The Buccaneer (1958)
    The Buccaneer
    • Writer (1938 script)
    • 1958
  • Broadway Television Theatre (1952)
    Broadway Television Theatre
    • play "The Firebrand"
    • TV Series
    • 1953
  • Maureen O'Hara, Rex Harrison, and Vanessa Brown in The Foxes of Harrow (1947)
    The Foxes of Harrow
    • contributor to dialogue (uncredited)
    • 1947
  • Arturo de Córdova, Patric Knowles, and Dorothy Lamour in Masquerade in Mexico (1945)
    Masquerade in Mexico
    • based on a story by
    • 1945
  • Tallulah Bankhead, Anne Baxter, Charles Coburn, and William Eythe in A Royal Scandal (1945)
    A Royal Scandal
    • screenplay
    • 1945
  • Jack Benny and Carole Lombard in To Be or Not to Be (1942)
    To Be or Not to Be
    • screenplay
    • 1942
  • Clark Gable and Rosalind Russell in They Met in Bombay (1941)
    They Met in Bombay
    • screen play
    • 1941
  • Jeffrey Lynn in Underground (1941)
    Underground
    • story
    • 1941
  • Ronald Colman in Lucky Partners (1940)
    Lucky Partners
    • screenplay (uncredited)
    • 1940
  • Basil Rathbone, Leo Carrillo, Robert Cummings, Sigrid Gurie, and Victor McLaglen in Rio (1939)
    Rio
    • screenplay
    • 1939
  • Walter Catlett, Jerome Cowan, Stanley Fields, Etienne Girardot, Leonid Kinskey, Alan Marshal, Irving Pichel, Jed Prouty, and Anna Sten in Exile Express (1939)
    Exile Express
    • screenplay
    • 1939
  • Don Ameche and Claudette Colbert in Midnight (1939)
    Midnight
    • based on a story by
    • 1939
  • Fredric March in The Buccaneer (1938)
    The Buccaneer
    • screenplay
    • 1938
  • Mary Boland, Vivienne Osborne, and Charles Ruggles in Wives Never Know (1936)
    Wives Never Know
    • Writer (uncredited)
    • 1936

Script and Continuity Department

  • Leslie Howard and Conchita Montenegro in Never the Twain Shall Meet (1931)
    Never the Twain Shall Meet
    • dialogue continuity
    • 1931
  • In Gay Madrid (1930)
    In Gay Madrid
    • dialogue continuity
    • 1930

Personal details

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  • Born
    • November 8, 1896
    • New York City, New York, USA
  • Died
    • September 11, 1960
    • New York City, New York, USA
  • Spouse
    • Mrs. Frances O'Neill McIntyre1927 - 1927
  • Other works
    Stage: Wrote "The Firebrand", produced on Broadway. Comedy. Morosco Theatre: 15 Oct 1924-May 1925 (closing date unknown/261 performances). Cast: Hortense Alden (as "Emelia"), Dorothy Bicknell, Nana Bryant, Kenneth Dana, Eleanor Ewing, Wallace Fortune, George Drury Hart, Marie Haynes, Scott Hirschberg, Allyn Joslyn (as "Polverino"), J. Ellis Kirkman, Florence Mason, Charles McCarthy, Frank Morgan (as "Alessandro, the Duke of Florence"), Philip Niblette, Edward Quinn, Edward G. Robinson (as "Ottaviano"), Joseph Schildkraut (as "Benvenuto Cellini"), Wilbert Shields, Roland Winters (as "Gentleman of the Court" / "Soldier"). Produced by Laurence Schwab, Horace Liveright and Frank Mandel. NOTE: filmed as The Affairs of Cellini (1934), The Firebrand (1953).
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    • 1 Print Biography
    • 6 Articles

Did you know

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  • Trivia
    Former journalist and playwright, active on and off-Broadway from the mid-1920's. Moved to Hollywood as a press agent for Samuel Goldwyn and then became a title writer for De Mille and Pathe. Wrote his first screenplays from 1929. He was under contract at Paramount from 1932 to 1938, associated with Ernst Lubitsch on a couple of noted comedies, particularly To Be or Not to Be (1942).
  • Quotes
    (From his autobiography) My going to Hollywood was inevitable. It was the bourn from which no artist ever returns, marked out on the day when I put aside my first poem, scribbled on the back of an envelope, to unwillingly pack underwear stock in cases. But I have not wanted to be poor - I will not be poor! I will force the world to take note of me.
  • Salary
    • Gone with the Wind
      (1939)
      $4,167

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