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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).
Norman Reilly Raine was born on 23 June 1894 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a writer, known for The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), The Life of Emile Zola (1937) and We've Never Been Licked (1943).
- Writer
- June 23, 1894
- Norman Reilly Raine
- July 19, 1971
Jul 29, 1971 · Norman Reilly Raine, crea tor of the “Tugboat Annie” character in some 75 Saturday Evening Post stories and writer of many films, died on July 19 at the Motion Picture Country Hospital in...
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.
Jan 1, 2021 · Annie was the literary creation of a writer named Norman Reilly Raine, a World War I veteran turned writer who came to Seattle in 1930 to teach short story writing at the University of Washington.
The screenplay was written by Norman Reilly Raine and Aeneas MacKenzie. It was the fifth of nine films that Flynn and de Havilland starred in, while it was the second of his three with Davis. The supporting cast included Donald Crisp, Henry Daniell, Henry Stephenson, and Vincent Price.
Norman Reilly Raine 's stories of the salty tugboat captain Annie Brennan, a character based on the life of Thea Foss, [1] first appeared in prose form in the weekly US journal Saturday Evening Post in the late 1920s.
