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Wendell Mayes (July 21 1919 Hayti Missouri – March 28 1992 Santa Monica California) was a Hollywood screenwriter. His father Von Mayes was a lawyer and his mother Irene (née Haynes) was a teacher.Mayes began as an actor. An episode he wrote for the Kraft Television Theatre received a good review in a Los Angeles newspaper and Billy Wilder hired him to work on the script to the film The Spirit of St. Louis.