Edwin Justus Mayer

Personal Info

Known For Writer

Gender Male

Birthday 1896-11-08

Deathday 1960-09-11 (63 years old)

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 article Edwin Justus Mayer, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.    

Known For

Writer

1945
A Royal Scandal

as Screenplay

1942
To Be or Not to Be

as Screenplay

1941
They Met in Bombay

as Screenplay

1941
Underground

as Story

1939
Rio

as Screenplay

1939
Exile Express

as Writer

1939
Midnight

as Original Story

1938
The Buccaneer

as Screenplay

1936
Till We Meet Again

as Screenplay

1936
Desire

as Screenplay

1935
So Red the Rose

as Writer

1934
Thirty Day Princess

as Adaptation

1934
Here Is My Heart

as Screenplay

1934
The Affairs of Cellini

as Theatre Play

1933
I Am Suzanne!

as Writer

1933
Tonight Is Ours

as Writer

1933
1932
Wild Girl

as Screenplay

1932
Merrily We Go to Hell

as Screenplay

1931
1931
1930
Romance

as Screenplay

1930
Redemption

as Dialogue

1930
In Gay Madrid

as Dialogue

1930
The Lady of Scandal

as Adaptation

1930
Not So Dumb

as Dialogue

1930
1929
The Unholy Night

as Screenplay

1928
The Whip Woman

as Writer

1928
Man-Made Women

as Writer

1927

Crew

1958
The Buccaneer

as Script

1935
Peter Ibbetson

as Additional Writing