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Casey Robinson (October 17, 1903 - December 6, 1979) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 producer
Film producer

A film producer is someone who creates the conditions for making film. The producer initiates, co-ordinates, supervises and controls matters such as fund-raising, hiring key personnel and arranging for distributors....
 and director
Film director

A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a film. A film director visualizes the Screenplay, controlling a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of his or her vision....
 of mostly B movies and a screenwriter
Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scenarists are scriptwriters who write the screenplays from which films and television programs are made.Most screenwriters start their careers writing on speculation....
 responsible for some of Bette Davis
Bette Davis

Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis was an American actress of film, television and theatre. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres; from contemporary crime films to historical film and period piece and occasional comedy, though her greatest successes were h...
' most revered film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
s. Film critic
Critic

The word critic comes from the Greek language ' , "able to discern", which in turn derives from the word ' , meaning a person who offers reasoned judgment or analysis, value judgment, interpretation, or observation....
 Richard Corliss
Richard Corliss

Richard Nelson Corliss is a writer for Time magazine who focuses on movies, with the occasional article on music or sports. Corliss is the former editor-in-chief of Film Comment....
 once described him as "the master of the art - or craft - of adaptation."

Born Kenneth Casey Robinson in Logan, Utah
Logan, Utah

Logan is a city in Cache County, Utah, Utah, in the United States. As of the United States Census, 2000, the city population was 42,670, a substantial increase over the 1990 figure of 32,771....
, the son of a Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University

Brigham Young University , located in Provo, Utah, United States, is a Private education, coeducational research university owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ....
 music/drama instructor, he graduated from Cornell University
Cornell University

Cornell University located in Ithaca, New York, USA, is a private university with four Statutory college. Its two medical campuses are in New York City and Education City, Qatar....
 at the age of 19 and briefly taught English before turning to journalism
Journalism

Journalism is the craft of conveying news, descriptive material and editorial via a widening spectrum of Media . These include newspapers, magazines, radio and television, the internet and, more recently, the cellphone....
. In 1927, he began his Hollywood career writing the titles for silent movie
Silent Movie

Silent Movie is a 1976 in film comedy film directed by and starring Mel Brooks, and released by 20th Century Fox on June 17, 1976. The ensemble cast includes Dom DeLuise, Marty Feldman, Bernadette Peters, Sid Caesar, Anne Bancroft, Henny Youngman, Liza Minnelli, Burt Reynolds, James Caan, and Paul Newman....
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Casey Robinson (October 17, 1903 - December 6, 1979) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 producer
Film producer

A film producer is someone who creates the conditions for making film. The producer initiates, co-ordinates, supervises and controls matters such as fund-raising, hiring key personnel and arranging for distributors....
 and director
Film director

A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a film. A film director visualizes the Screenplay, controlling a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of his or her vision....
 of mostly B movies and a screenwriter
Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scenarists are scriptwriters who write the screenplays from which films and television programs are made.Most screenwriters start their careers writing on speculation....
 responsible for some of Bette Davis
Bette Davis

Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis was an American actress of film, television and theatre. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres; from contemporary crime films to historical film and period piece and occasional comedy, though her greatest successes were h...
' most revered film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
s. Film critic
Critic

The word critic comes from the Greek language ' , "able to discern", which in turn derives from the word ' , meaning a person who offers reasoned judgment or analysis, value judgment, interpretation, or observation....
 Richard Corliss
Richard Corliss

Richard Nelson Corliss is a writer for Time magazine who focuses on movies, with the occasional article on music or sports. Corliss is the former editor-in-chief of Film Comment....
 once described him as "the master of the art - or craft - of adaptation."

Born Kenneth Casey Robinson in Logan, Utah
Logan, Utah

Logan is a city in Cache County, Utah, Utah, in the United States. As of the United States Census, 2000, the city population was 42,670, a substantial increase over the 1990 figure of 32,771....
, the son of a Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University

Brigham Young University , located in Provo, Utah, United States, is a Private education, coeducational research university owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ....
 music/drama instructor, he graduated from Cornell University
Cornell University

Cornell University located in Ithaca, New York, USA, is a private university with four Statutory college. Its two medical campuses are in New York City and Education City, Qatar....
 at the age of 19 and briefly taught English before turning to journalism
Journalism

Journalism is the craft of conveying news, descriptive material and editorial via a widening spectrum of Media . These include newspapers, magazines, radio and television, the internet and, more recently, the cellphone....
. In 1927, he began his Hollywood career writing the titles for silent movie
Silent Movie

Silent Movie is a 1976 in film comedy film directed by and starring Mel Brooks, and released by 20th Century Fox on June 17, 1976. The ensemble cast includes Dom DeLuise, Marty Feldman, Bernadette Peters, Sid Caesar, Anne Bancroft, Henny Youngman, Liza Minnelli, Burt Reynolds, James Caan, and Paul Newman....
s. He graduated to directing in the early 1930s, but after six films he abandoned that field in order to concentrate on writing. His work for Davis included It's Love I'm After
It's Love I'm After

It's Love I'm After is a 1937 United States screwball comedy film directed by Archie Mayo. The screenplay by Casey Robinson is based on the story Gentlemen After Midnight by Maurice Hanline....
, Dark Victory
Dark Victory

Dark Victory is a 1939 in film United States drama film directed by Edmund Goulding. The screenplay by Casey Robinson was based on the unsuccessful 1934 play of the same title by George Brewer and Bertram Bloch....
, The Old Maid
The Old Maid

The Old Maid is a 1939 in film romantic drama film, produced by Warner Brothers.It was film director by Edmund Goulding, and stars Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, George Brent, Donald Crisp, Jane Bryan, James Stephenson, Jerome Cowan, William Lundigan and Louise Fazenda....
, All This, and Heaven Too, Now, Voyager
Now, Voyager

Now, Voyager is a 1942 in film United States drama film directed by Irving Rapper. The screenplay by Casey Robinson is based on the 1941 novel of the same name by Olive Higgins Prouty, who borrowed her title from a line in the Walt Whitman poem "The Untold Want," which reads in its entirety, "The untold want by life and land ne'er granted...
, and The Corn Is Green
The Corn Is Green (1945 film)

The Corn Is Green is a 1945 in film drama film starring Bette Davis as a schoolteacher determined to bring education to a Welsh coal mining town, despite great opposition....
.

Robinson's production credits include Days of Glory, Under My Skin
Under My Skin (film)

Under My Skin is a 1950 in film United States film directed by Jean Negulesco, starring John Garfield and Micheline Presle. It is based on the short story Three Stories and Ten Poems by Ernest Hemingway about a jockey being threatened by a mobster after winning a race he had agreed to throw....
, and Two Flags West
Two Flags West

Two Flags West is a 1950 in film American Civil War drama that tells the story of a large squadron of imprisoned Confederate Army soldiers, who will be given complete amnesty, only if they choose to fight alongside Indians....
, all of which he scripted as well.

In 1935, Robinson was a write-in candidate for what was then called the Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay
Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay

The Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay is one of the Academy Awards, the most prominent film awards in the United States. It is awarded each year to the screenwriter of a Adapted_screenplay from another source ....
 for his work on Captain Blood.

After spending the better part of the 1930s and the early 1940s toiling at Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. is one of the world's largest film producer of film and television.It is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank, California and New York City....
, Robinson moved to MGM in the mid-'40s, then to 20th Century Fox
20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation , also known as 20th Century Fox, Fox 2000 Pictures, or simply Fox, is one of the six Worldwide major film studios....
 in the 1950s. He retired in 1962 and eventually emigrated to Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
, where he scripted and produced his final project, Scobie Malone, in 1975. He died in Sydney.

Robinson's third wife was prima ballerina Tamara Toumanova
Tamara Toumanova

Tamara Toumanova was a ballerina and actor.She was born Tamara Tumanishvili to Georgian parents in Tyumen, Siberia, while her mother was fleeing Georgia in search of her husband....
.

Additional screenwriting credits

  • I Found Stella Parish
    I Found Stella Parish

    I Found Stella Parish is a 1935 in film melodrama starring Kay Francis as a beloved actress whose dark secret is revealed to the world....
     (1935)
  • Tovarich
    Tovarich (film)

    Tovarich is a 1937 in film Warner Bros. comedy film based on the 1935 play by Robert E. Sherwood. It was produced and directed by Anatole Litvak with Robert Lord as associate producer and Hal B....
     (1937)
  • Four's a Crowd
    Four's a Crowd

    Four's a Crowd is a romantic comedy directed by Michael Curtiz and released by Warner Brothers....
     (1938)
  • One Foot in Heaven
    One Foot in Heaven

    One Foot in Heaven is a 1941 biographical film which follows the life of a minister and his family as they move from parish to parish. It stars Fredric March, Martha Scott, Beulah Bondi, Gene Lockhart and Elisabeth Fraser....
     (1941)
  • Kings Row
    Kings Row

    Kings Row is a 1942 film which tells the story of a group of youths who grow up leading supposedly idyllic lives in a small town with disturbing secrets....
     (1942)
  • This Is the Army
    This Is the Army

    This Is the Army is a 1943 in film United States motion picture produced by Hal B. Wallis and Jack L. Warner, and directed by Michael Curtiz, and a wartime musical designed to boost morale in the U.S....
     (1943)
  • Passage to Marseille
    Passage to Marseille

    Passage to Marseille is a 1944 in film war film made by Warner Brothers, directed by Michael Curtiz and produced by Hal B. Wallis with Jack L....
     (1944)
  • Father was a Fullback
    Father was a Fullback

    Father was a Fullback is a 1949 black and white Twentieth Century Fox film based on a comedy by Clifford Goldsmith. The film is about a college American football coach and his woes....
     (1949)
  • The Snows of Kilimanjaro
    The Snows of Kilimanjaro (film)

    The Snows of Kilimanjaro is a 1952 film based on the short story of the The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway. The film version of the short story was directed by Henry King , and starred Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, and Susan Hayward....
     (1952)
  • The Egyptian
    The Egyptian (film)

    The Egyptian is a 1954 in film epic film made in CinemaScope by 20th Century Fox, directed by Michael Curtiz and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck....
     (1954)
  • While the City Sleeps (1956)


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