Edwin Justus Mayer

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1896-11-08 (64 years old)

Deathday

1960-09-11

Place of Birth

New York, New York

Edwin Justus Mayer

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Edwin Justus Mayer (8 November 1896 – 11 September 1960) was an American screenwriter. He wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for 47 films between 1927 and 1958. He was born and died in New York, New York. He is the grandfather of film director Daisy von Scherler Mayer. Edwin Justus Mayer worked on many screenplays. But he is famous today for working with Ernst Lubitsch. He worked with Lubitsch in To Be or Not to Be (1942) and A Royal Scandal (1945). A Royal Scandal (1945) was a box office failure, but today, is considered by many as one of Lubitsch's finest films. Description above from the Wikipedia ...

Production

1958

The Buccaneer

as Script

1930

Romance

as Screenplay

1935

Peter Ibbetson

as Additional Writing

1945

A Royal Scandal

as Screenplay

1941

They Met in Bombay

as Screenplay

1941

Underground

as Story

1931

1930

Redemption

as Dialogue

1936

Till We Meet Again

as Screenplay

1934

Thirty Day Princess

as Adaptation

1935

1933

I Am Suzanne!

as Writer

1939

Rio

as Screenplay

1929

The Unholy Night

as Screenplay

1930

In Gay Madrid

as Dialogue

1930

The Lady of Scandal

as Adaptation

1930

Not So Dumb

as Dialogue

1939

Exile Express

as Writer

1936

Desire

as Screenplay

1933

1939

Midnight

as Original Story

1934

Here Is My Heart

as Screenplay

1933

1932

Wild Girl

as Screenplay

1927

1938

The Buccaneer

as Screenplay

1934

The Affairs of Cellini

as Theatre Play

1932

1930

1942

To Be or Not to Be

as Screenplay

1928

1928

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