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Norman Reilly Raine

Known For
Writing

Known Credits
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Gender
Male

Birthday
June 23, 1894 (132 years old)

Place of Birth
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA

Norman Reilly Raine

Biography

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.

Known For

Writing

1954Born in Freedom: The Story of Colonel Drake...Writer
1952Woman of the North Country...Screenplay
1951M...Screenplay
1945Captain Kidd...Screenplay
1945Captain Tugboat Annie...Characters
1945A Bell for Adano...Writer
1945Nob Hill...Writer
1944Ladies Courageous...Writer
1943We've Never Been Licked...Story
1943We've Never Been Licked...Screenplay
1942Eagle Squadron...Writer
1942Captains of the Clouds...Screenplay
1940Tugboat Annie Sails Again...Characters
1940The Fighting 69th...Screenplay
1939The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex...Screenplay
1939Each Dawn I Die...Screenplay
1939Island of Lost Men...Theatre Play
1938Men Are Such Fools...Screenplay
1938The Adventures of Robin Hood...Screenplay
1937The Perfect Specimen...Screenplay
1937The Life of Emile Zola...Screenplay
1937Mountain Justice...Screenplay
1937God's Country and the Woman...Screenplay
1933White Woman...Theatre Play
1933Tugboat Annie...Story

Crew

1939The Oklahoma Kid...Additional Writing

Acting