Maxwell Anderson

Maxwell Anderson
Biografske informacije
RođenjeJames Maxwell Anderson
(1888-12-15)15. 12. 1888.
Stamford, Connecticut, SAD
Smrt28. 2. 1959. (dob: 70)
PseudonimJohn Nairne Michaelson
SupružnikMargaret Haskett (1911–1931†)
Gertrude Higger (1933–1953†)
Gilda Hazard (1954–1959)
Obrazovanje
Alma materUniversity of North Dakota
Stanford University
Zanimanjedramski pisac, tekstopisac, novinar
Opus
Jezikengleski
Znamenita djela
Both Your Houses
Nagrade

James Maxwell Anderson (15. decembar 1888 – 28. februar 1959) je bio američki književnik i novinar, poznat kao autor drama na temelju kojih su snimljeni brojni hollywoodski filmovi. Godine 1933. je za svoju dramu Both Your Houses osvojio Pulitzerovu nagradu.

Kazališni komadi

  • White Desert – 1923
  • What Price Glory – 1924 – ratna drama
  • First Flight – 1925 – (ko-autor Laurence Stallings)
  • Outside Looking In – 1925
  • Saturday's Children – 1927
  • Gods of the Lightning – 1929 (ko-autor: Harold Hickerson)
  • Gypsy – 1929
  • Elizabeth the Queen – 1930 – historijska drama u stihu
  • Night Over Taos – 1932
  • Both Your Houses – 1933 – Pulitzerova nagrada za dramu
  • Mary of Scotland – 1933 – historijska drama u stihu
  • Valley Forge – 1934
  • Winterset – 1935 – nagrada New York Drama Critics' Circle
  • The Masque of Kings – 1936
  • The Wingless Victory – 1936
  • The Star-Wagon – 1937
  • High Tor – 1937 nagrada New York Drama Critics Circle
  • The Feast of Ortolans – 1937 – jednočinka
  • Knickerbocker Holiday – 1938 – dijalozi i libreto
  • Second Overture – 1938 – jednočinka
  • Key Largo – 1939
  • Journey to Jerusalem – 1940
  • Candle in the Wind – 1941
  • The Miracle of the Danube – 1941 – jednočinka
  • The Eve of St. Mark – 1942
  • Your Navy – 1942 – jednočinka
  • Storm Operation – 1944
  • Letter to Jackie – 1944 – jednočinka
  • Truckline Café – 1946
  • Joan of Lorraine (djelomično napisana u stihu) – 1946
  • Anne of the Thousand Days – 1948 – historijska drama u stihu
  • Lost in the Stars – 1949 – dijalozi i libreto
  • Barefoot in Athens – 1951
  • The Bad Seed – 1954
  • High Tor – 1956 (televizijska partitura)
  • The Day the Money Stopped – 1958 – (ko-autor: Brendan Gill)
  • The Golden Six – 1958

Filmografija

  • What Price Glory – 1926 – film
  • Saturday's Children – 1929 – dramski predložak
  • The Cock-Eyed World – 1929 – sinopsis
  • All Quiet on the Western Front – 1930 – adaptacija i dijalog
  • The Guardsman – 1931 – scena iz Elizabeth the Queen
  • Rain – 1932 – adaptacija
  • Washington Merry-Go-Round – 1932 – sinopsis
  • Death Takes a Holiday – 1934 (scenarij po predlošku Alberta Caselle i engleskom prijevodu Waltera Ferrisa)
  • We Live Again – 1934 – adaptacija Tolstojevog Uskrsnuća
  • The Lives of a Bengal Lancer – 1935 – sudjelovanje na scenariju (van špice)
  • Maybe It's Love – 1935 – po drami Saturday's Children
  • So Red the Rose – 1935 – scenario
  • Mary of Scotland – 1936 – dramski predložak
  • Winterset – 1936 – dramski predložak
  • The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex – 1939 – dramski predložak
  • Saturday's Children – 1940 – dramski predložak
  • Knickerbocker Holiday – 1944 – dramski predložak
  • The Eve of St. Mark – 1944 – dramski predložak
  • Winterset – 1945 – TV – dramski predložak
  • A la sombra del puente – 1946 – dramski predložak
  • Key Largo – 1948 – dramski predložak (najvećim dijelom promijenjen od Johna Hustona i Richarda Brooksa)
  • Joan of Arc – 1948 – dramski predložak Joan of Lorraine i scenarij
  • Pulitzer Prize Playhouse – TV-serija 1950 - četiri epizode po dramam
  • Celanese Theatre – TV serija 1951 - dvije epizode po dramama
  • What Price Glory? – 1952 – dramski predložakj
  • The Alcoa Hour – TV serija 1955 – dramski predložak – epizoda "Key Largo"
  • The Bad Seed – 1956 – dramski predložak
  • The Wrong Man – 1956 – po romanu The True Story of Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero
  • Never Steal Anything Small – 1959 – po drami The Devil's Hornpipe
  • Ben-Hur – 1959 – van špice
  • Barefoot in Athens – 1966 – TV – dramski predložak
  • The Star Wagon – 1967 – TV – dramski predložak
  • Elizabeth the Queen – 1968 – TV – dramski predložak
  • Anne of the Thousand Days – 1969 – dramski predložak
  • Valley Forge – 1975 – TV – dramski predložak
  • Lost in the Stars – 1974 – dramski predložak
  • The Bad Seed – 1985 – TV – dramski predložak
  • Meet Joe Black (1998) (raniji scenario) (inspiracija)

Literatura

  • The Maxwell Anderson papers are housed at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas, Austin.
  • Another significant collection of Maxwell Anderson papers Arhivirano 2006-12-05 na Wayback Machine-u are housed at The Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections of the Chester Fritz Library at The University of North Dakota.
  • The National Cyclopedia of American Biography vol. 60: pp. 323–325
  • Dictionary of American Biography, Supplement Six: pp. 14–16
  • Bibliography by M. Cox (1958, repr. 1974)
  • The Life of Maxwell Anderson by Alfred S. Shivers, PhD, published by Stein and Day, New York, 1983. ISBN 0-8128-2789-9

Vanjske veze

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1918–1925
1926–1950
1951–1975
1976–2000
  • Michael Bennett / Nicholas Dante / James Kirkwood, Jr. / Marvin Hamlisch / Edward Kleban (1976)
  • Michael Cristofer (1977)
  • Donald L. Coburn (1978)
  • Sam Shepard (1979)
  • Lanford Wilson (1980)
  • Beth Henley (1981)
  • Charles Fuller (1982)
  • Marsha Norman (1983)
  • David Mamet (1984)
  • James Lapine / Stephen Sondheim (1985)
  • August Wilson (1987)
  • Alfred Uhry (1988)
  • Wendy Wasserstein (1989)
  • August Wilson (1990)
  • Neil Simon (1991)
  • Robert Schenkkan (1992)
  • Tony Kushner (1993)
  • Edward Albee (1994)
  • Horton Foote (1995)
  • Jonathan Larson (1996)
  • Paula Vogel (1998)
  • Margaret Edson (1999)
  • Donald Margulies (2000)
2001–2024
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  • Suzan-Lori Parks (2002)
  • Nilo Cruz (2003)
  • Doug Wright (2004)
  • John Patrick Shanley (2005)
  • David Lindsay-Abaire (2007)
  • Tracy Letts (2008)
  • Lynn Nottage (2009)
  • Tom Kitt / Brian Yorkey (2010)
  • Bruce Norris (2011)
  • Quiara Alegría Hudes (2012)
  • Ayad Akhtar (2013)
  • Annie Baker (2014)
  • Stephen Adly Guirgis (2015)
  • Lin-Manuel Miranda (2016)
  • Lynn Nottage (2017)
  • Martyna Majok (2018)
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