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They had two children, Laurence, Jr. (born 1939, died 2023 in Tübingen, Germany) and Sally (born 1941). Stallings died of a heart attack in Pacific Palisades, California. He was buried with full military honors at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery in Point Loma near San Diego .
- Laurence Tucker Stallings, November 25, 1894, Macon, Georgia
- Plumes, What Price Glory
- February 28, 1968 (aged 73), Pacific Palisades, California
Laurence Tucker Stallings Jr. V. Laurence Tucker Stallings Jr. Birth. 25 Nov 1894. Macon, Bibb County, Georgia, USA. Death. 28 Feb 1968 (aged 73) Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles County, California, USA. Burial.
Nov 25, 2021 · Laurence Tucker Stallings, Jr., was born November 25, 1894, in Macon, Georgia. He graduated from Wake Forest with a B.A. in 1915. His first job was a reporter on the Atlanta Constitution in 1915. In 1917 Stallings enlisted in the Marines and was sent to France, where he participated in some of the bloodiest campaigns of the war.
25 Nov. 1894–29 Feb. 1968. Laurence Tucker Stallings, U.S. Marine, columnist, playwright, novelist, and chronicler, was born in Macon, Ga., of a southern family known for its long line of Baptist ministers and its Confederate dead.
Laurence and Louise had two children: Laurence Tucker Stallings, Jr (born 1939); and Sally Stallings (born 1941). After marrying Louise he signed a new contract with MGM, moved to Santa Barbara, California, and never returned to the South.
Laurence Stallings, who graduated with a Master’s degree from the School of Foreign Service in 1922, turned his experience as a wounded veteran in the First World War into inspiration for a career as a journalist, author, and playwright. Laurence Stallings in his World War I Marine uniform in 1918.
Laurence Stallings (1894-1968) was an American writer. He is probably best known for his 1924 play, "What Price Glory," co-written with Maxwell Anderson, and his autobiographical novel, Plumes, which narrated his military service during World War I. Stallings was born in Macon, Georgia in 1894.
