![]() ![]() Maxwell Anderson - Wikipedia. James Maxwell Anderson (December 1. They moved often, to follow their father's ministerial posts, and Maxwell was frequently sick, missing a great deal of school. He used his time sick in bed to read voraciously, and both his parents and Aunt Emma were storytellers, which contributed to Anderson's love of literature. During a visit to his grandmother's house in Atlantic, at age 1. Hallie Loomis, a slightly older girl from a wealthier family. His autobiographical tale, Morning, Winter and Night told of rape, incest and sadomasochism on the farm. The Andersons bounced between Andover, Ohio, Richmond Center, Ohio, Townville, Pa., Edinboro, Pa., Mc. Keesport, Pa., New Brighton, Pa., Harrisburg, Pa., to Jamestown, North Dakota in 1. Anderson attended Jamestown High School, graduating in 1. ![]() Journalism. He obtained a BA in English Literature from the University of North Dakota in 1. He became the principal of a high school in Minnewaukan, North Dakota, also teaching English there, but was fired in 1. He then entered Stanford University, obtaining an M. A. He became a high school English teacher in San Francisco: after three years he became chairman of the English department at Whittier College in 1. He was fired after a year for public statements supporting Arthur Camp, a jailed student seeking status as a conscientious objector. Anderson moved to Palo Alto to write for the San Francisco Evening Bulletin, but was fired for writing an editorial stating that it would be impossible for Germany to pay off its war debt. So he moved to San Francisco to write for the San Francisco Chronicle, but was fired after contracting the Spanish Flu and missing work. Alvin Johnson hired Anderson to move to New York City and write about politics for The New Republic in 1. Editor- in- Chief Herbert David Croly. Anderson found work at The New York Globe, and the New York World. In 1. 92. 1, he founded The Measure: A Journal of Poetry, a magazine devoted to verse. He wrote his first play, White Desert, in 1. New York World, Laurence Stallings, who collaborated with him on his next play, What Price Glory?, which was successfully produced in 1. Kurt Weill & Maxwell Anderson's Lost in the Stars; Hamenoi st' astra; Perdidos en las estrellas; . Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson's musical Lost in the Stars is based on Alan Paton's classic novel Cry. This film, like the stage musical and the book is was based on, is a moving indictment of racial. Lost in the Stars Aka Kurt Weill & Maxwell Anderson's Lost in the Stars (1974) Nzb, Trailer, Download and Ratings. New York City. Afterwards he resigned from the World, launching his career as a dramatist. Some of these were adapted as movies, and Anderson wrote the screenplays of other authors' plays and novels . His first Broadway hit was the gritty 1. World War I comedy- drama, What Price Glory, written with Laurence Stallings. ![]() Anderson wrote book and lyrics for two successful musicals with composer Kurt Weill. So did the title song of Anderson and Weill's Lost in the Stars. 1974) The Life of Maxwell Anderson by Alfred S. OCLC Number: 226255538: Language Note: Soundtrack in English. Notes: At head of title: Kurt Weill & Maxwell Anderson's. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1974. Based upon Cry, the beloved country / Alan Paton. ![]() The play was notable for its use of profanity, which caused censors to protest. But when the chief censor (Rear Admiral Charles Peshall Plunkett) was found to have written far more obscene letters to General Chamberlaine, he was discredited: soldiers really did speak that way. When Bergman and her director changed much of his dialogue to make Joan . One play in particular . It opened on Broadway starring Rex Harrison and Joyce Redman, and became a 1. Richard Burton and Genevi. Margaret Furse won an Oscar for the film's costume designs. Another of his Tudor plays, Elizabeth the Queen opened in 1. Lynn Fontanne as Elizabeth and Alfred Lunt as Lord Essex. It was later adapted to the screen as The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1. Bette Davis and Errol Flynn. Still another of his plays involving Elizabeth I, Mary of Scotland was turned into a 1. John Ford film, starring Katharine Hepburn as Mary, Queen of Scots, Fredric March as the Earl of Bothwell, and Florence Eldridge as Elizabeth. The play had been a hit on Broadway starring Helen Hayes in the title role. His play Wingless Victory was written in verse and premiered in 1. Broadway actress Katharine Cornell in the lead role. It received mixed reviews. Valley Forge was adapted for television on three occasions . Anderson wrote book and lyrics for two successful musicals with composer Kurt Weill. Knickerbocker Holiday, about the early Dutch settlers of New York, featured Walter Huston as Peter Stuyvesant. The show's standout number, . So did the title song of Anderson and Weill's Lost in the Stars, a story of South Africa based on the Alan Paton novel Cry, The Beloved Country. Anderson's long- running 1. Saturday's Children, in which Humphrey Bogart made an early appearance, was filmed three times . The play was also adapted for television in three condensed versions in 1. He was hired by Alfred Hitchcock to write the screenplay for Hitchcock's The Wrong Man (1. Hitchcock also contracted with Anderson to write the screenplay for what became Vertigo (1. Hitchcock rejected his screenplay Darkling, I Listen. They had three sons, Quentin, Alan, and Terence. Anderson then wrote a prophetic play, Gypsy, in 1. When he catches her, she commits suicide by inhaling gas. Anderson split with Haskett, who then died shortly after a car accident and a stroke in 1. Mab divorced her husband, singer Charles V. Maynard, and moved in with Anderson. She was a significant help with clerical duties, but had expensive tastes and spent Anderson's money freely. Their daughter, Hesper, was born August 1. Anderson had left Higger. The combination of losing Anderson, their massive tax debt and losing her home was too much for her. After several unsuccessful attempts, Gertrude committed suicide by breathing car exhaust on March 2. Hesper wrote a book, South Mountain Road: A Daughter's Journey of Discovery about her unearthing, only after the suicide, the fact that her parents had never married. Maxwell Anderson married once more, to ABC's TV Celanese Theater Production Assistant, Gilda Hazard, on June 6, 1. Half of his ashes were scattered by the sea near his home in Stamford. The other half was buried in Anderson Cemetery near his birthplace in rural northwestern Pennsylvania. The inscription on his tombstone reads: Children of dust astray among the stars. Children of earth adrift upon the night. What is there in our darkness or our light. To linger in prose or claim a singing breath. Save the curt history of life isled in death. Stage productions. The Life of Maxwell Anderson. New York: Stein and Day. The Life of Maxwell Anderson. Shivers, Ph. D published by Stein and Day, New York, 1. ISBN 0- 8. 12. 8- 2. The Life of Maxwell Anderson by Alfred S. Shivers, Ph. D published by Stein and Day, New York, 1. ISBN 0- 8. 12. 8- 2.
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