AKA: James Maxwell Anderson
Nationality: American
Birthdate: 12/15/1888
Birthplace: Atlantic, Pennsylvania, USA
Death Date: 02/28/1959
A noted playwright who occasionally wrote directly for the screen, Maxwell Anderson also wrote original film scripts. His credits include the adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front" (1930, with Del Andrews and George Abbott) and Hitchcock's "The Wrong Man" (1956); of his numerous plays adapted for the screen by others, "What Price Glory?" (1926; written with Laurence Stallings), Michael Curtiz's "The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex" (1939) and John Huston's "Key Largo" (1948) stand out.
from motion picture screenplay
1998
Play as Source Material
1948
Play as Source Material
1939
Play as Source Material
1936
1911
Worked as a high school English teacher and did editorial work for San Francisco newspapers
Became a newspaper journalist in New York; wrote for the New York World
1923
Wrote first play, "The White Desert"
1926
His play "What Price Glory?" (written with Laurence Stallings) was filmed
1930
Contributed dialogue to the award-winning anti-war film "All Quiet on the Western Front"
