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Birthplace:
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA
Born:
June 23, 1894
Died:
July 19, 1971
Norman Reilly Raine (23 June 1894 – 19 July 1971) was an American screenwriter, creator of "Tugboat Annie" and winner of an Oscar for the screenplay of The Life of Emile Zola (1937). Raine wrote a series of Tugboat Annie stories for the Saturday Evening Post. In a 1940 news article, it was said he based Tugboat Annie on a female tugboat owner he knew and wanted to write a story about her; however the woman was gentle and Tugboat Annie was not. He also based Tugboat Annie on Marie Dressler after he watched Anna Christie. In 1933 he wrote the screenplay for the film, in which Marie Dressler played Annie and Wallace Beery portrayed Terry, her hard-drinking husband, with whom she traded choice insults. A 1934 news article said Raine always worked wearing a knit cap and, when he once misplaced it, wore his wife's as a substitute. In 1950, he had been collaborating with writer Guy Gilpatric before he killed himself and his wife after she was diagnosed with breast cancer. In a 1957 article, Raine mentioned that he once wrote a story about the Battle of the Little Bighorn but was rejected by a Hollywood magnate seven times to which Raine said "I'm ready to quit, it's the best I can do. What is there about it that displeases you?" and the magnate responded "I'll tell you, I hate Indians!". He also once wrote for television, three episodes in the series Schlitz Playhouse of Stars. Subsequently, Raine wrote many other screenplays, among them The Perfect Specimen, God's Country and the Woman, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Each Dawn I Die, The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, Mountain Justice, The Fighting 69th, Men Are Such Fools, Eagle Squadron, Ladies Courageous, We've Never Been Licked, Nob Hill, A Bell for Adano, Captain Kidd and Captains of the Clouds.
Characters:
1940 Tugboat Annie Sails Again
1945 Captain Tugboat Annie
Screenplay:
1937 God's Country and the Woman
1937 Mountain Justice
1937 The Life of Emile Zola
1937 The Perfect Specimen
1938 Men Are Such Fools
1938 The Adventures of Robin Hood
1939 Each Dawn I Die
1939 The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
1940 The Fighting 69th
1940 Tugboat Annie Sails Again
1942 Captains of the Clouds
1945 Captain Kidd
1945 Captain Tugboat Annie
1951 M
1952 Woman of the North Country
Story:
1933 Tugboat Annie
1937 God's Country and the Woman
1937 Mountain Justice
1937 The Life of Emile Zola
1937 The Perfect Specimen
1938 Men Are Such Fools
1938 The Adventures of Robin Hood
1939 Each Dawn I Die
1939 The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
1940 The Fighting 69th
1940 Tugboat Annie Sails Again
1942 Captains of the Clouds
1945 Captain Kidd
1945 Captain Tugboat Annie
1951 M
1952 Woman of the North Country
Theatre Play:
1933 Tugboat Annie
1933 White Woman
1937 God's Country and the Woman
1937 Mountain Justice
1937 The Life of Emile Zola
1937 The Perfect Specimen
1938 Men Are Such Fools
1938 The Adventures of Robin Hood
1939 Each Dawn I Die
1939 Island of Lost Men
1939 The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
1940 The Fighting 69th
1940 Tugboat Annie Sails Again
1942 Captains of the Clouds
1945 Captain Kidd
1945 Captain Tugboat Annie
1951 M
1952 Woman of the North Country
Writer:
1933 Tugboat Annie
1933 White Woman
1937 God's Country and the Woman
1937 Mountain Justice
1937 The Life of Emile Zola
1937 The Perfect Specimen
1938 Men Are Such Fools
1938 The Adventures of Robin Hood
1939 Each Dawn I Die
1939 Island of Lost Men
1939 The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
1940 The Fighting 69th
1940 Tugboat Annie Sails Again
1942 Captains of the Clouds
1942 Eagle Squadron
1944 Ladies Courageous
1945 A Bell for Adano
1945 Captain Kidd
1945 Captain Tugboat Annie
1945 Nob Hill
1951 M
1952 Woman of the North Country
1954 Born in Freedom: The Story of Colonel Drake
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