The Star-Wagon was a 1937 Broadway drama written by Maxwell Anderson, produced and staged by Guthrie McClintic, with scenic design by Jo Mielziner and musical direction by Albert Pearl.

The setting is manufacturing town in Eastern Ohio at what was the present time for the audience in the premiere, 1937.

[2] The New York Times, January 7, 1938: "The purchase of Maxwell Anderson's The Star Wagon was made today by Selznick International as a vehicle for Janet Gaynor.

Gaynor retired from her film career with The Young in Heart, released November 1938, and the motion picture was never made.

The play was videotaped for television as a 1966 installment of NET Playhouse, directed by Karl Genus and starring Orson Bean, Eileen Brennan and Dustin Hoffman.