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May 29, 2024 · Wendell Mayes (1918–1992) had a significant career as a screenwriter and TV writer with quite a range of movies including The Spirit of St. Louis (1957), Anatomy of a Murder (1959), The Poseidon Adventure (1972), and Death Wish (1974).
Aug 29, 2023 · Screenwriter Wendell Mayes had been nominated for Otto Preminger’s courtroom drama Anatomy of a Murder (1959) and Horton Foote, who worked on The Stalking Moon without receiving a credit, had won the Oscar for To Kill a Mockingbird.
Oct 18, 2023 · The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Wendell Mayes. Mayes joined the Navy on 10 December 1942. He was trained as a radio and radar technician.
May 31, 2024 · The screenplay was written by Wendell Mayes. Mayes adapted John D. Voelker’s novel, meticulously crafting the dialogue and structure of the film. Anatomy of a Murder was a groundbreaking film for its portrayal of sexual assault.
May 11, 2024 · Preminger's film, written by Wendell Mayes, was marred in controversy for its use of crude language.
Oct 24, 2023 · Screenwriter Wendall Mayes on how he was hired to write a script with the legendary Billy Wilder. My first screenplay was with Billy Wilder, who brought me from New York to Hollywood for The Spirit of St. Louis in 1955.
Jan 22, 2024 · When director Michael Winner and screenwriter Wendell Mayes adapted Brian Garfield's novel "Death Wish," it's doubtful that they had any idea they'd be launching a film franchise that would...
May 5, 2024 · In Anatomy of a Murder, Jimmy Stewart sheds his Western persona by playing a lawyer on the hunt for a challenge, not justice.
Oct 28, 2023 · This folder contains a script written by screenwriter Wendell Mayes for Act III of the television adaptation of John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage. Of note are several pages with handwritten notations by Senator Kennedy.
Screenplay by Wendell Mayes, based on the novel by Robert Traver. Starring James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Arthur O’Connell, Eve Arden, Kathryn Grant, George C. Scott.
