Edwin Justus Mayer

Screenwriter

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Birth Place

New York City, New York, USA

Born

November 08, 1896

Filmography

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To Be or Not to Be (1983)

The Foxes of Harrow (1947)

Masquerade in Mexico (1946)

Based on a Story by

A Royal Scandal (1945)

To Be or Not to Be (1942)

They Met in Bombay (1941)

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Not So Dumb (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Sunny California

Merrily We Go To Hell (1932) — (Movie Clip) Less Ventilation And More Smoke!

Biography

Filmography

Writer (Feature Film)

To Be or Not to Be (1983)

The Foxes of Harrow (1947)

Masquerade in Mexico (1946)

Based on a Story by

A Royal Scandal (1945)

To Be or Not to Be (1942)

They Met in Bombay (1941)

Underground (1941)

Exile Express (1939)

Midnight (1939)

The Buccaneer (1938)

Give Us This Night (1936)

Till We Meet Again (1936)

Wives Never Know (1936)

Contr to Screenplay const

So Red the Rose (1935)

Peter Ibbetson (1935)

Here Is My Heart (1934)

I Am Suzanne! (1934)

Story and Screenplay

Thirty Day Princess (1934)

Tonight Is Ours (1933)

The Song of Songs (1933)

Contract Writer

Wild Girl (1932)

Dial and Adapted

The Phantom of Paris (1931)

Never the Twain Shall Meet (1931)

Cheri-Bibi (1931)

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Le spectre vert (1930)

The Lady of Scandal (1930)

Not So Dumb (1930)

Redemption (1930)

In Gay Madrid (1930)

In Gay Madrid (1930)

The Unholy Night (1929)

Sal of Singapore (1929)

The Divine Lady (1929)

Ned McCobb's Daughter (1929)

Man-Made Women (1928)

The Whip Woman (1928)

The Blue Danube (1928)

The Love Mart (1927)

Husbands for Rent (1927)

Women Love Diamonds (1927)

The Devil Dancer (1927)

Life Events

Videos

Not So Dumb (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Sunny California Opening with Marion Davies (as nutty Dulcy, the title role in the original George S. Kaufman-Marc Connelly play) and fiancè Gordon (Elliott Nugent) in the rain, awaiting potential investor Forbes (the other actor William Holden, 1862-1932), wife and daughter (Sally Starr, Julia Faye), with King Vidor directing, in Not So Dumb, 1930.

Merrily We Go To Hell (1932) — (Movie Clip) Less Ventilation And More Smoke! Joan (Sylvia Sidney) has just told her drunken playwright faithless husband Jerry (Fredric March) that she’s willing to try a modern, open marriage so she’s met his dashing actor friend Charlie (Cary Grant!) for lunch, then they join a theater-scene party (pals Skeets Gallagher and Adrianne Allen attending), with humor masking bitterness, Dorothy Arzner directing, in Merrily We Go To Hell, 1932.

To Be Or Not To Be (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Do We Not Bleed? Pilot Stanislav (Robert Stack) with actress Maria in her Warsaw dressing room, news of the Nazi invasion, her husband Joseph (Jack Benny) confused, director Ernst Lubitsh's documentation resumes, actors Greenberg and Bronski (Felix Bressart, Tom Dugan) reflecting, in To Be Or Not To Be, 1942.

To Be Or Not To Be (1942) -- (Movie Clip) August 1939 Director Ernst Lubitsch's famous opening, Tom Dugan as the German chancellor, stopping traffic in Warsaw, Jack Benny as the Nazi colonel, Charles Halton tangling with actor Felix Bressart, revealing the narrative device, in To Be Or Not To Be, 1942.

To Be Or Not To Be (1942) -- (Movie Clip) I Love My Slippers! Bachelor pilot Stanislav (Robert Stack) on a secret mission back from England, discovered by actor Joseph (Jack Benny) in his apartment in occupied Warsaw, his actress wife Maria (Carole Lombard) returning with news of the suspected traitor, in Ernst Lubitsch's To Be Or Not To Be, 1942.

Redemption (1930) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Afraid I'm A Barbarian Still in the opening scene, Russian playboy Fedya (John Gilbert) revels with his Gypsy friends, especially Renée Adorée as Masha, when he’s distracted by Lisa (Eleanor Boardman) and old friend Victor (Conrad Nagel), in MGM’s Redemption 1930, remotely based on a Tolstoy play.

Redemption (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Thou Has Not Promised Thyself... Director Fred Niblo clinging to silent-film conventions, shifting from a fledgling pre-revolutionary Russian romance to a high Orthodox wedding, in a lofty MGM soundstage, John Gilbert as rogue Fedya and Eleanor Boardman as smitten Lisa, in Redemption 1930, remotely based on a Tolstoy play.

Phantom Of Paris, The (1931) -- (Movie Clip) It's A Mischievous God Observing popular magician Cheri-Bibi (John Gilbert) and his hostess, socialite Cecile (Leila Hyams), with a dazzled guest (Tyrell Davis) are Ian Keith as her fiancè Touchais, whom her father has just disinherited, and Natalie Moorhead as Vera, who appears to be only a vile hanger-on, early in The Phantom Of Paris, 1931.

Phantom Of Paris, The (1931) -- (Movie Clip) I'd Rather Not Watch This From the top, we meet John Gilbert as the title character, a celebrated magician, from a Gaston Leroux serial novel (as was MGM’s The Phantom Of The Opera, 1925), Leila Hyams his admirer in the balcony, Louise Mackintosh her affronted companion, in The Phantom Of Paris, 1931, with Ian Keith, Jean Hersholt and Alfred Hickman.

Romance (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Harder To Be Good Young Manhattan pastor Tom (Gavin Gordon) deals first with a gossipy guest (William Stack), then with his parishoner and host Van Tuyl (Lewis Stone), before briefly meeting the star Greta Garbo, early in her second talkie, Romance, 1930.

Romance (1930) -- (Movie Clip) Perhaps The Boat Will Sink New Yorker Miss Armstrong (Clara Blandick) with Van Tuyl (Lewis Stone), prepared to be offended by opera singer Rita Cavallini (Greta Garbo), and both aiming to discourage her friendship with her pastor brother Tom (Gavin Gordon), in MGM's Romance, 1930.

To Be Or Not To Be (1942) -- (Movie Clip) While He's Still Young Warsaw stage star Maria Tura (Carole Lombard) with dresser (Maude Eburne), receives a note from a fan, hammy husband Joseph (Jack Benny) beginning his soliloquy, handsome lieutenant Stanislav (Robert Stack) paying his first visit, in Ernst Lubitsch's To Be Or Not To Be, 1942.

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