Casey Robinson was born on October 17, 1903 in Logan, Utah, USA as Kenneth Casey Robinson. He was a writer and producer, known for Now, Voyager (1942), Captain Blood (1935) and The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952). He was married to Tamara Toumanova, Audray Dale and Joan Potts. He died on December 6, 1979 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
[on working for MGM]: I fell into the trap of going to Metro, because they offered me $5000 a week. Metro was a place where, if they wanted somebody, money was not an object. They paid more than any other studio for their stars, their directors, even for their writers. I shouldn't have done it. I knew better, because I have always said that Metro is the graveyard of writers. And so it proved to be.
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[on working for Warner Bros. in the 1930s]: A writer was expected to arrive at the studio at nine o'clock in the morning and leave at five o'clock. He was expected to restrict his outside calls to a minimum. They were monitored. Let's face it, you didn't say anything you didn't want heard. A writer was not permitted on the set without the written permission of Jack Warner. This was a regulation. A writer was never invited to see his rushes. He was never invited to a preview. If he wanted to see his own pictures on the screen, he paid his money and went and saw them.
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He disliked working in collaboration, preferring to receive solo credit for his efforts. He preferred working for Warner Brothers, because he believed that Jack L. Warner was too tight-fisted to fork out extra money for re-writes, thus more of the original script would be featured on screen.
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Initially taught English at a high school in Brigham City, Utah, as well as entertaining a brief journalistic career as a reporter for the New York World. He started in Hollywood as a title writer in 1927 for $100 a week. Robinson was signed as full screenwriter by Paramount (1933-34) and then secured a ten-year contract with Warner Brothers in 1935. There, he worked on some of Betty Davis's and Errol Flynn's best films, including Captain Blood (1935), Dark Victory (1939) and Now, Voyager (1942). After leaving Warners, he had a spell at MGM, then joined 20th Century Fox (1949-54) as writer/producer.
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He was a graduate of Cornell University of 1924.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Scobie Malone
1975
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
1966
TV Series writer - 2 episodes
Duel at the Rio Grande
1963
screenplay / story
The Son of Captain Blood
1962
screenplay / story
This Earth Is Mine
1959
writer
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1958-1959
TV Series teleplay - 2 episodes
TV de Vanguarda
TV Series 1 episode, 1957 screenplay - 1 episode, 1954
$700,000
