Edwin Justus Mayer(1896-1960)

Writer
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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), Underground (1941) and Merrily We Go to Hell (1932). He was married to Mrs. Frances O'Neill McIntyre. He died on 11 September 1960 in New York City, New York, USA.

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Known for

To Be or Not to Be

8.1

Writer

1942

Underground

7.2

Writer

1941

Merrily We Go to Hell

6.9

Writer

1932

Midnight

7.8

Writer

1939

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Writer

To Be or Not to Be
6.9
- Writer (1942 screenplay)
- 1983
The Buccaneer
6.4
- Writer (1938 script)
- 1958
Broadway Television Theatre
6.3
TV Series
- play "The Firebrand"
- 1953
The Foxes of Harrow
6.5
- contributor to dialogue (uncredited)
- 1947
Masquerade in Mexico
5.8
- based on a story by
- 1945
A Royal Scandal
6.7
- screenplay
- 1945
To Be or Not to Be
8.1
- screenplay
- 1942
They Met in Bombay
6.6
- screen play
- 1941
Underground
7.2
- story
- 1941
Lucky Partners
6.5
- screenplay (uncredited)
- 1940
Rio
6.2
- screenplay
- 1939
Exile Express
5.2
- screenplay
- 1939
Midnight
7.8
- based on a story by
- 1939
The Buccaneer
6.6
- screenplay
- 1938
Wives Never Know
6.4
- Writer (uncredited)
- 1936

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Personal details

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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- 6 Articles

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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.