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Kenneth Casey Robinson (October 17, 1903 – December 6, 1979) was an American producer and director of mostly B movies and a screenwriter responsible for some of Bette Davis' most revered films. Film critic Richard Corliss once described him as "the master of the art – or craft – of adaptation."
Jan 4, 2022 · Casey Robinson, a Warner Bros. screenwriter, transformed Ilsa from an American divorcée to a European refugee in the film Casablanca. Learn how his input and other changes shaped the classic script and story of this iconic movie.
Uncredited writer Casey Robinson labored on three weeks of rewrites, and even the producer Wallis contributed to the script by suggesting the everlasting “this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship” line, which was dubbed in a month after the end of filming.
Casey Robinson is known as an Screenplay, Writer, Producer, Director, Story, Actor, Original Story, Scenario Writer, and Dialogue. Some of his work includes Captain Blood, Now, Voyager, Dark Victory, While the City Sleeps, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, The Egyptian, Passage to Marseille, and The Old Maid.
- 'Casablanca' Beat Its Source Material to Production by Decades
- Was The Play Slandered by The 'Casablanca' Screenwriters?
- 'Casablanca' Does Resemble The Play Quite A bit…
- …But Key Details Were Changed
Hollywood legend, at times fueled by its subjects, has shaped memories and perceptions of how Everybody Comes to Rick’s became Casablanca. What isn’t disputed is how the play came about. Murray Burnett was a young school teacher when he found himself in Vienna in 1938 and got an eyeful of Nazism’s effect on Europe. He was there to help relatives ge...
Just who wrote what, and how much they actually relied on Everybody Comes to Rick’s, was among the chief bones of contention about Casablanca for decades. The screenplay is credited to Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch, but according to Aljean Harmetz’s Round Up the Usual Suspects, seven writers were assigned to the material by Wallis...
Burnett estimated that 80 percent of Casablanca was taken directly from Everybody Comes to Rick’s, and his resentment over the years extended from Koch to Warner Bros. as the studio — who retained all rights to the material — cut him out of an 80s television adaptation, fought him on producing the play, and denied him use of the original title when...
Those last two act summaries should tell you something about how much Casablanca evolved in the adaptation process and put a big question mark over Burnett’s estimate that it was almost all derived from his play. Lois and Rinaldo were completely transformed, Rick was significantly altered, and key changes in character connections were made for crea...
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Now, Voyager is a 1942 American drama film starring Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, and Claude Rains, and directed by Irving Rapper. The screenplay by Casey Robinson is based on the 1941 novel of the same name by Olive Higgins Prouty. [4]
Casey Robinson was an American director, producer, and screenwriter. Robinson worked as a journalist and high school teacher in Utah. Robinson started out by writing title cards for silent pictures, working on thirteen films from 1927 to 1928 beginning with The Private Life of Helen of Troy.
