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Maxwell Anderson

Highest Rated: 98% All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

Lowest Rated: 64% The Bad Seed (1956)

Birthday: Dec 15, 1888

Birthplace: Atlantic, Pennsylvania, USA

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.

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Highest-Rated Movies

98% 89% All Quiet on the Western Front Watchlist 97% 88% Key Largo Watchlist 93% 75% The Wrong Man Watchlist 82% 53% Joan of Arc Watchlist 78% 78% Death Takes a Holiday Watchlist 64% 82% The Bad Seed Watchlist Women of All Nations Watchlist The Cockeyed World Watchlist

Filmography

Movies TV Shows
The Bad Seed 64% 82% 1956 Writer The Wrong Man 93% 75% 1956 Writer Joan of Arc 82% 53% 1948 Screenwriter Key Largo 97% 88% 1948 Writer Death Takes a Holiday 78% 78% 1934 Writer Women of All Nations 1931 Screenwriter All Quiet on the Western Front 98% 89% 1930 Screenwriter, Writer The Cockeyed World 1929 Screenwriter
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