- Casey Robinson
Casey Robinson (
October 17 ,1903 -December 6 ,1979 ) was an American producer and director of mostlyB movie s and ascreenwriter responsible for some ofBette Davis ' most reveredfilm s. Filmcritic Richard Corliss once described him as "the master of the art - or craft - of adaptation." [http://movies.nytimes.com/person/108533/Casey-Robinson/biography Robinson bio at the "New York Times"] ]Born Kenneth Casey Robinson in
Logan, Utah , the son of aBrigham Young University music/drama instructor, he graduated fromCornell University at the age of 19 and briefly taught English before turning tojournalism . [http://movies.nytimes.com/person/108533/Casey-Robinson/biography Robinson bio at the "New York Times"] ] In 1927, he began his Hollywood career writing the titles forsilent movie 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 ", "Dark Victory ", "The Old Maid ", "All This, and Heaven Too ", "Now, Voyager ", and "The Corn Is Green".Robinson's production credits include "Days of Glory", "Under My Skin", and "
Two Flags West ", 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 for his work on "Captain Blood".
After spending the better part of the 1930s and the early 1940s toiling at
Warner Bros. , Robinson moved toMGM in the mid-'40s, then to20th Century Fox in the 1950s. He retired in 1962 and eventually emigrated toSydney, New South Wales ,Australia , 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 .Additional screenwriting credits
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I Found Stella Parish " (1935)
*"Tovarich" (1937)
*"Four's a Crowd " (1938)
*"One Foot in Heaven " (1941)
*"Kings Row " (1942)
*"This Is the Army " (1943)
*"Passage to Marseille " (1944)
*"Father was a Fullback " (1949)
*"The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (1952)
*"The Egyptian" (1954)
*"While the City Sleeps" (1956)References
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