Casey Robinson
Kenneth Casey Robinson ( born October 17, 1903 in Logan, Utah, † December 6, 1979 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) was an American screenwriter, film producer and film director who once for an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay was nominated and 1968, the Writers Guild of America Award received for his life's work.
Life
After schooling Robinson graduated from Cornell University, where he graduated in 1924. He then worked as a teacher of English at a high school in Brigham City, and for a short time as a reporter for the daily newspaper New York World.
His career in the film industry in Hollywood, he began in 1927 with a weekly salary of $ 100 as a writer of intertitles in silent films such as the war film The World in Flames (1927 ) by Alfred Santell with Richard Barthelmess. At the beginning of the 1930s he also worked as a film director and staged 1931-1932 six short films as well as the Western Renegades of the West ( 1932) with Tom Keene, Roscoe Ates and Betty Furness in the lead roles. In 1933 he signed a contract as a professional screenwriter at Paramount Pictures, where he worked until he 1935 after signing a ten-year contract moved to Warner Bros.. Throughout his career, he wrote the scripts and templates for around sixty films and television series.
At the Academy Awards in 1936 he was nominated for the screenplay for the film Pirates Captain Blood (1935 ) by Michael Curtiz with Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland and Lionel Atwill for the Oscar for best adapted screenplay based on the novel Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini.
In the following years, he wrote, among other screenplays for other films with Errol Flynn and Bette Davis as the victim of a great love (1939) and Now, Voyager (1942 ). Meet The scenes in Casablanca ( 1942) by Michael Curtiz in which Ilsa ( Ingrid Bergman ) and Rick ( Humphrey Bogart ) alone in the cafe, comes largely from Casey Robinson, who is not mentioned in the credits ( " uncredited "). After he had left Warner Bros. after the contract ended in 1945, he worked for Metro -Goldwyn -Mayer before he worked as a screenwriter, and temporarily also as a film producer for 20th Century Fox 1949-1954.
Robinson, who was married to his second wife from 1944 to 1954 with the ballerina and actress Tamara Toumanova, received in 1968 for his life's work the price of the Writers Guild of America. Film critic Richard Corliss described Robinson as " the master of the art - and craft - of adaptation " (, the master of the art - or craft - of adaptation ').