Maxwell Anderson - biography

“This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it.”

“He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods.”

“There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.”

“If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right.”

“The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.”

Maxwell Anderson contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
What Price Glory (1926)
The Cock-Eyed World (1929)
Saturday’s Children (1929)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
One Romantic Night (1930)
Women of All Nations (1931)
Rain (1932)
Death Takes a Holiday (1934)
We Live Again (1934)
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)
Mary of Scotland (1936)
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
Saturday’s Children (1940)
The Eve of St. Mark (1944)
Joan of Arc (1948)
Key Largo (1948)
What Price Glory (1952)
The Bad Seed (1956)
The Wrong Man (1956)
Ben-Hur (1959)
Never Steal Anything Small (1959)
Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
Meet Joe Black (1998)