Casey Robinson


Screenwriter

About

Also Known As
Kenneth C Robinson
Birth Place
Logan, Utah, USA
Born
October 17, 1903
Died
December 06, 1979

Biography

Prolific screenwriter whose contribution to "Casablanca" was beefing up the play's romantic elements and creating the private meetings between Ilsa and Rick when she pleads for the exit visa....

Family & Companions

Tamara Toumanova
Wife
Ballerina.

Biography

Prolific screenwriter whose contribution to "Casablanca" was beefing up the play's romantic elements and creating the private meetings between Ilsa and Rick when she pleads for the exit visa.

Filmography

 

Director (Feature Film)

Renegades of the West (1932)
Director

Writer (Feature Film)

Scobie Malone (1975)
Screenwriter
The Son of Captain Blood (1964)
Screenwriter
This Earth Is Mine (1959)
Screenwriter
While the City Sleeps (1956)
Screenwriter
A Bullet Is Waiting (1954)
Screenwriter
The Egyptian (1954)
Screenwriter
Diplomatic Courier (1952)
Screenwriter
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
Screenwriter
Follow the Sun (1951)
Contract Writer
Under My Skin (1950)
Screenwriter
Two Flags West (1950)
Screenwriter
Father Was a Fullback (1949)
Screenwriter
The Macomber Affair (1947)
Screenwriter
Desire Me (1947)
Adaptation
Saratoga Trunk (1946)
Screenwriter
The Corn Is Green (1945)
Screenwriter
Days of Glory (1944)
Wrt for the Screenplay by
Passage to Marseille (1944)
Screenwriter
The Racket Man (1944)
Based on a Story by
This Is the Army (1943)
Screenwriter
Now, Voyager (1942)
Screenwriter
Kings Row (1942)
Screenwriter
Million Dollar Baby (1941)
Screenwriter
One Foot in Heaven (1941)
Screenwriter
All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
Screenwriter
The Old Maid (1939)
Screenwriter
Dark Victory (1939)
Screenwriter
Yes, My Darling Daughter (1939)
Screenwriter
Four's a Crowd (1938)
Screenwriter
Stolen Holiday (1937)
Screenwriter
Tovarich (1937)
Screenwriter
Call It a Day (1937)
Screenwriter
It's Love I'm After (1937)
Screenwriter
I Married a Doctor (1936)
Screenwriter
Give Me Your Heart (1936)
Screenwriter
Hearts Divided (1936)
Screenwriter
I Found Stella Parish (1935)
Screenwriter
Captain Blood (1935)
Screenwriter
McFadden's Flats (1935)
Adaptation
She Made Her Bed (1934)
Screenwriter
Eight Girls in a Boat (1934)
Screenwriter
Here Comes the Groom (1934)
Screenwriter
Golden Harvest (1933)
Screenwriter
I Love That Man (1933)
Screenwriter
Song of the Eagle (1933)
Screenwriter
Strictly Personal (1933)
Additional Dialogue
Lucky Devils (1933)
Original Story
Is My Face Red? (1932)
Screenwriter
The Last Parade (1931)
Story
The Squealer (1930)
Cont
Times Square (1929)
Titles
Turn Back the Hours (1928)
Titles
Out of the Ruins (1928)
Titles
Mad Hour (1928)
Titles
The Head of the Family (1928)
Titles
The Chorus Kid (1928)
Titles
The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1928)
Titles
The River Woman (1928)
Titles
Waterfront (1928)
Titles
Bare Knees (1928)
Titles
The Hawk's Nest (1928)
Titles
Do Your Duty (1928)
Titles
The Companionate Marriage (1928)
Titles

Producer (Feature Film)

Scobie Malone (1975)
Producer
This Earth Is Mine (1959)
Producer
Diplomatic Courier (1952)
Producer
Under My Skin (1950)
Producer
Two Flags West (1950)
Producer
The Macomber Affair (1947)
Producer
Days of Glory (1944)
Producer
The Head of the Family (1928)
Supervisor

Production Companies (Feature Film)

The Mating of Millie (1948)
Company
Days of Glory (1944)
Company

Director (Short)

Singapore Sue (1932)
Director

Writer (Short)

Singapore Sue (1932)
Writer

Life Events

Videos

Movie Clip

This Is The Army (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Opening, Mr. Irving Berlin Opening credit sequence as befitting the 1943 Technicolor Irving Berlin/Warner Bros. musical, based on his Broadway and roadshow productions, the profits for everything going to the Army Emergency Relief fund, supporting soldiers and their families, from This Is The Army, 1943.
All This, And Heaven Too (1940) -- (Movie Clip) The Name Of A French Prison Presented by her new employer Miss Haines (Janet Beecher) at a New York girls' school, Henriette (Bette Davis) has trouble with pupils, Emily (Ann Gillis) the ringleader, opening All This, And Heaven Too, from the fact-based novel by Rachel Field.
All This, And Heaven Too (1940) -- (Movie Clip) A Most Attractive Governess Young Raynard (Richard Nichols) and governess Henriette (Bette Davis) are surprised when their father and employer the Duc (Charles Boyer) and daughter Louise (Virginia Wiedler) arrive in Paris from the summer home, proceeding to the opera, in Warner Bros. All This, And Heaven Too, 1940.
Corn Is Green, The (1945) -- (Movie Clip) So This Is My House Miss Moffat (Bette Davis), with Watty (Rosalind Ivan), arrives at her inherited Welsh home, the squire (Nigel Bruce), Miss Ronberry (Mildred Dunnock) and Jones (Rhys Williams) surprised to discover she's a female, early in The Corn Is Green, 1945.
Corn Is Green, The (1945) -- (Movie Clip) Did You Write This? Miss Moffatt (Bette Davis), with aide Ronberry (Mildred Dunnock), despairing over whether she'll ever start her Welsh school, then discovering miner Evans (John Dall) and his prodigious work, in The Corn Is Green, 1945.
Corn Is Green, The (1945) -- (Movie Clip) Kill Two Birds Miss Moffat (Bette Davis) with miner and star student Evans (John Dall), who is taunted by devious Bessie (Joan Loring), who then gets into her own trouble, her mother (Rosalind Ivan) helping quell, in The Corn Is Green, 1945.
I Found Stella Parish (1935) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Norman Theater Opening credits and some framing by theater fans awaiting the star, from Warner Bros. I Found Stella Parish, 1935, starring Kay Francis, Ian Hunter and Paul Lukas, directed by Mervyn LeRoy.
I Found Stella Parish (1935) -- (Movie Clip) Am I A Wonderful Actress? Title character (Kay Francis) with daughter Gloria (Sybil Jason) and confidante-servant Nana (Jessie Ralph) in domestic bliss and hiding the truth from the child, in an early scene from I Found Stella Parish, 1935.
I Found Stella Parish (1935) -- (Movie Clip) Three Old Liars Finishing her performance in a fictional London play, and flush from curtain calls, the title character (Kay Francis) is confronted in the literal sense by her past, the obscured Jeffords (Barton MacLane), in a critical scene from I Found Stella Parish, 1935.
I Found Stella Parish (1935) -- (Movie Clip) Quitting The Stage Disguised as an older lady on board ship, title character (Kay Francis) bumps into inquisitive journalist Lockridge (Ian Hunter) who's beginning to catch the scent, in Mervyn LeRoy's I Found Stella Parish, 1935.
I Found Stella Parish (1935) -- (Movie Clip) This Brief Hour With both their names on the marquee outside, impresario Stephen (Paul Lukas) settles for a date when the title character (Kay Francis) refuses his proposal, in an early scene from I Found Stella Parish, 1935.
While The City Sleeps (1956) -- (Movie Clip) You'll Be Mine Walter (Vincent Price) who's just inherited a media empire, on the phone with wife Dorothy (Rhonda Fleming), who's in mid-dalliance with his ambitious underling Harry (James Craig), in Fritz Lang's While The City Sleeps, 1956.

Trailer

Snows of Kilimanjaro, The - (Original Trailer) Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner and Susan Hayward star in the Henry King's adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's story The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952).
Stolen Holiday - (Original Trailer) A Paris fashion model (Kay Francis) marries a fortune hunter (Claude Rains) to protect him from the law in Stolen Holiday (1936).
Call It a Day - (Original Trailer) An average day brings a variety of comic problems to members of a British family in Call It A Day (1937) starring Olivia de Havilland.
Bullet Is Waiting, A - (Original Trailer) A plane crash strands a policeman and his prisoner in the wilderness in A Bullet Is Waiting (1954) starring Jean Simmons and Rory Calhoun.
All This, and Heaven Too - (Original Trailer) A French nobleman falls in love with his children's governess in All This and Heaven Too (1940) starring Bette Davis and Charles Boyer.
Saratoga Trunk - (Re-issue Trailer) A woman with a past returns to 19th-Century New Orleans for revenge in Saratoga Trunk (1945) starring Ingrid Bergman and Gary Cooper.
Dark Victory - (Original Trailer) Bette Davis stars in the ultimate weepie, Dark Victory (1939) as a flighty heiress who is diagnosed with a terminal illness.
Give Me Your Heart - (Original Trailer) A socialite (Kay Francis) has to give up the baby she bore to a married man in Give Me Your Heart (1936).
Desire Me - (Original Trailer) A war widow falls in love with the man who informed her of her husband's death in Desire Me (1947) starring Greer Garson and Robert Mitchum.
Tovarich - (Original Trailer) Russian nobles flee the revolution and take jobs in Paris as servants in the romantic comedy, Tovarich (1937) starring Claudette Colbert and Charles Boyer.
Days Of Glory - (Original Trailer) Russian freedom fighters battle Nazi oppressors, in the original trailer for Days Of Glory, 1944, Gregory Peck starring in his first Hollywood film, directed by Jacques Tourneur.
Passage to Marseille - (Original Trailer) Devil's Island escapees join up with the Allies during World War II in Passage to Marseille (1944) starring Humphrey Bogart.

Companions

Tamara Toumanova
Wife
Ballerina.

Bibliography