Robert Carson

Robert Pierce Carson (born October 6, 1909 in Washington, DC , † January 19, 1983 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American writer and screenwriter who won the Oscar for best original story and the Oscar for best in 1938 adapted script was nominated.

Life

Carson initially worked as a writer and wrote mostly for The Saturday Evening Post and Collier’s 96 short stories and fifteen sequel stories . He began his career as a screenwriter in the Hollywood film industry in 1937 with the screenplay for A Star Rises and wrote 26 templates and scripts for films.

For A Star Rises by William A. Wellman and Jack Conway with Janet Gaynor , Frederic March and Adolphe Menjou , he received the Oscar for the best original story together with Wellman at the 1938 Academy Awards and was also for this with Alan Campbell and Dorothy Parker for nominated for the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. The story was so successful that it was published both in 1954 under the title A New Star in the Sky by George Cukor with Judy Garland , James Mason and Jack Carson and in 1976 as A Star Is Born by Frank Pierson with Barbra Streisand , Kris Kristofferson and Gary Busey was re-filmed.

In 1938 he married the actress Mary Jane Irving , who began as a child actress in silent films in 1917 and worked in around sixty films by 1938. He was married to her until his death.

During the Second World War he did his military service as commander of the film unit of the US Air Force and was discharged as a lieutenant colonel in 1945.

He then wrote several other scripts as well as several books such as The Magic Lantern (1952), a depiction of the early film history of Hollywood.

personal data
SURNAME	Carson, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Carson, Robert Pierce (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American screenwriter and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	October 6, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH	Washington, DC
DATE OF DEATH	January 19, 1983
Place of death	Los Angeles , California