Laurence Stallings
Laurence Tucker Stallings (November 25, 1894 – February 28, 1968) was an American playwright, screenwriter, lyricist, literary critic, journalist, novelist, and photographer. Best known for his collaboration with Maxwell Anderson on the 1924 play What Price Glory, Stallings also produced a groundbreaking autobiographical novel, Plumes, about his service in World War I, and published an award-winning book of photographs, The First World War: A Photographic History.
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Stallings c. 1918. Photo by Arnold Genthe. Note the Croix de Guerre. | |
| Born | Laurence Tucker Stallings November 25, 1894 Macon, Georgia |
| Died | February 28, 1968 (aged 73) Pacific Palisades, California |
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| Notable works | Plumes What Price Glory |
| Notable awards | Croix de Guerre Silver Star Photoplay Gold Medal • The Big Parade (1925) |
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