Name Stanley Rubin | Role Screenwriter | |
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Education University of California, Los Angeles Books Medieval English Medicine, Macao Movies River of No Return, The Narrow Margin, Macao, The President's Analyst, Promise Her Anything Similar People Kathleen Hughes, Cyril J Mockridge, Earl Felton, Otto Preminger, Josef von Sternberg | ||
Stanley rubin on negotiating the first basic agreement for screenwriters emmytvlegends org
Stanley Creamer Rubin (October 8, 1917 – March 2, 2014) was an American screenwriter and film and television producer born in New York City. He was the recipient of the Television Academy's first Emmy in 1949 for writing and producing (in collaboration) an adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's "The Necklace" for the NBC TV series Your Show Time.
Contents
- Stanley rubin on negotiating the first basic agreement for screenwriters emmytvlegends org
- Stanley rubin on winning an emmy at the first emmys ceremony emmytvlegends org
- Career
- Personal life and death
- References
Stanley rubin on winning an emmy at the first emmys ceremony emmytvlegends org
Career
His initial scripts for the big screen were for three 1940 films: South to Karanga, Diamond Frontier, and San Francisco Docks, all written in collaboration with Edmund L. Hartmann. He wrote, in collaboration with Bernard C. Schoenfeld, the film-noir adventure Macao (1952), starring Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell.
Rubin's feature film producing credits include The Narrow Margin (1952), River of No Return (1954) starring Marilyn Monroe, the comedy Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad (1967) starring Rosalind Russell, and the Clint Eastwood adventure drama White Hunter Black Heart (1990). His television producing credits include the series The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (1968–1970) with Hope Lange and The Man and the City (1971–1972) with Anthony Quinn. For the former, he received an Emmy nomination as the producer of the Best Comedy Series. He received an additional Emmy nomination for producing the made-for-TV movie Babe (1975), starring Susan Clark as American athlete Babe Didrikson Zaharias.
Personal life and death
In 2005, Rubin began attending classes at the University of California, Los Angeles to get the last few credits to obtain the Bachelor of Arts Degree he missed earning in 1937.
Rubin had been married to actress Kathleen Hughes since 1954. They have four children. He is the subject of the documentary film Stanley Rubin: A Work in Progress (2008), written and directed by Kellett Tighe.
He died on March 2, 2014 from natural causes at the age of 96 at his Los Angeles home.