Laurence Stallings
Laurence Tucker Stallings (born November 25, 1894 in Macon , Georgia , † February 28, 1968 in Pacific Palisades , California ) was an American writer , screenwriter , journalist and photographer .
life and career
He was born in Macon, Georgia in 1894 to bank clerk Larkin Tucker Stallings and housewife Aurora Brooks Stallings.
In 1912 Stallings enrolled at Wake Forest University in North Carolina , where he completed a degree in Classical Antiquity until 1916 . He then signed on as a reservist in the US Marines and was after the war entrance of the USA in 1917 in the First World War, after France sent, where he attended the Battle of Belleau Wood (1 to 26 June 1918) and in the battle at Château-Thierry (July 18, 1918). He was wounded in the leg (this had to be amputated in 1922 after a fall).
On March 8, 1919, Stallings married Helen Poteat, with whom he had been friends since school and had been in a relationship at times; the couple had two daughters, Sylvia (* 1926) and Diana (* 1931). However, they divorced in 1936 . In 1937, Stallings married his secretary at Fox Studios , Louise St. Leger Vance, with whom he had a son, Laurence, Jr. (* 1939) and had a daughter, Sally (* 1941).
After his time with the Marines, Stallings studied at Georgetown University in Washington, DC , where he earned a Master of Science degree . In the early 1920s he began his journalistic work as a literary critic and reporter for the New York World and his writing career. In 1924, "What Price Glory," the first piece he co-wrote with Maxwell Anderson , premiered at the Plymouth Theater in New York City . It was played 435 times, including a. also long on Broadway , and later filmed twice. In 1925, Anderson and Stallings co-wrote the dramas The First Flight and The Buccaneer . In 1926 Stallings wrote the book for the musical Deep River , in 1928 the musical Rainbow together with Oscar Hammerstein . In 1930 he adapted Ernest Hemingway's In Another Country for the stage . In 1937 the musical Virginia followed together with Owen Davis . In 1944 Stallings wrote The Streets are Guarded .
Stallings' first book (published in 1924, in that year it reached nine editions alone), a popular autobiographical novel , v. a. about his experience in World War I, the following year it was adapted into the silent film The Great Parade , which was one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's great commercial successes . Between the 1920s and 1950s, Stallings also worked regularly as a screenwriter for Hollywood films. He was involved as a writer on the John Ford films Traces in the Sand , The Devil's Captain and Whom the Sun Is Smiling . Other scripts by Stallings were those for Nordwest-Passage or the 1942 film adaptation of The Jungle Book
1963 a written by Stallings story of the American Expeditionary Force in World War I 1917-18 was published under the title The Doughboys: The Story of the AEF 1917-18 .
In 1968 Stallings died of a heart attack in his retirement home in Pacific Palisades near Los Angeles and was buried with military honors in Fort Rosecrans Cemetery near San Diego .
Filmography (selection)
- 1928: Things are happening in Hollywood (Show People)
- 1938: Too Hot to Handle (Too Hot to Handle)
- 1940: Northwest Passage (Northwest Passage)
- 1942: The Jungle Book (Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book)
- 1948: Footsteps in the Sand (Three Godfathers)
- 1949: The Devil's Captain (She Wore a Yellow Ribbon)
- 1953: For Whom the sun is shining (The Sun Shines Bright)
Web links
- Laurence Stallings in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Laurence Stallings on the Internet Broadway Database
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stallings, Laurence |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stallings, Laurence Tucker (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer, screenwriter, journalist, and photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 25, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Macon (Georgia) |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 28, 1968 |