Norman Reilly Raine

Norman Reilly Raine (born June 23, 1894 in Wilkes-Barre , † July 19, 1971 in Woodland Hills ) was an American author who worked for the press and wrote plays and film scripts .

Life

Norman Reilly began working as a reporter for The Buffalo Morning Express in 1912 at the age of 17 . In 1915 he worked as a reporter in Toronto, Canada , where he joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force . He served two years in World War I and was Captain of the Royal Air Force when he retired . He became famous during the " Great Depression " when he published 75 articles under the title Tug Boat Annie in the Saturday Evening Post . In 1933 the stories by Mervyn LeRoy were filmed under the title The Harbor Annie with Marie Dressler , Wallace Beery , Robert Young and Maureen O'Sullivan in the leading roles. In 1940 the film was continued by Tugboat Annie Sails Again by Lewis Seiler with Marjorie Rambeau , Alan Hale , Jane Wyman and Ronald Reagan in the leading roles, in 1945 by Captain Tugboat Annie by Phil Rosen with Jane Darwell in the leading role.

Since 1933 he began to work with smaller jobs for the cinema. Among other things, the play Hangman's Whip , written by him and Frank Butler for Broadway in 1933 and starring Montagu Love and Barton MacLane, was filmed in the same year by Stuart Walker under the title White Woman with Carole Lombard , Charles Laughton and Charles Bickford . The play was again filmed in 1939 by Kurt Neumann as Island of Lost Men with Anna May Wong , J. Carrol Naish and Eric Blore . Since 1937 he wrote his own scripts. The first highlight was the screenplay for The Life of Emile Zola , directed by William Dieterle , in the same year . The film was nominated for ten Academy Awards in 1938 and won three, including Best Screenplay. Raine shared the award with his co-authors Heinz Herald and Geza Herczeg . In 1938 he wrote the screenplay for Robin Hood, King of the Vagabonds with Seton I. Miller , in 1939 with Æneas MacKenzie a favorite of a queen and in 1945 under the black flag . During the Second World War he wrote several scripts that supported the US entry into the war propagandistically. After 1945 it was not until 1951 that Raine wrote a few more film works. He began with an adaptation of the original screenplay of M - A City Seeks a Murderer for Joseph Losey's US adaptation . Until the mid-1950s, a few more jobs for the new television followed.

From 1928 Paine was married to Joyce Roberta Pett, from 1958 until his death to Elizabeth Prudhomme.

1936: China Clipper without mention

1937: River of Truth (God's Country and the Woman)

1937: Mountain Justice

1937: The Life of Emile Zola (The Life of Emile Zola)

1937: A Guy To Fall In Love With (The Perfect Speciman)

1938: Robin Hood, King of the Vagabonds (The Adventures of Robin Hood)

1938: Men Are Such Fools

1939: Oklahoma Kid without mention

1939: dread at every dawn (Each Dawn I Die)

1939: Island of Lost Man Original Story

1939: Favorite of a Queen (The Private Lifes of Elizabeth and Essex)

1940: The Fighting 69th

1940: Tugboat Annie Sells again original characters

1942: heroes of the air (Captains of the Clouds)

1942: Eagle Squadron

1944: Ladies Courageous

1945: A Bell for Adano

1945: Captain Tugboat Annie original characters

1945: Under the black flag (Captain Kidd)

1951: M advice and post-processing

1952: Woman of the North Country

1953: Sea of Lost Ships

1954: Waterfront (TV)

1954: Born in Freedom: The Story of Colonel Drake

1955: Lux Video Theater

William Freeman: Norman Reilly Raine, 76, Dead. Was Creator of Tugboat Annie , In: New York Times , July 29, 1971.