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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). [1] Early years. Raine was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He began writing in 1912, when he was 17, with a job as a reporter on The Buffalo Morning Express.
- Joyce Roberta Pett (divorced), Elizabeth Prudhomme (1958–1971, his death)
- July 19, 1971 (aged 77), Woodland Hills, California
- June 23, 1894, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
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 ...
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...
Writer: The Adventures of Robin Hood. 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 Sea of Lost Ships (1953). He was married to Elizabeth Prudhomme and Joyce Roberta Pett.
- Writer
- June 23, 1894
- Norman Reilly Raine
- July 19, 1971
Tugboat Annie is a 1933 American pre-Code film directed by Mervyn LeRoy, written by Norman Reilly Raine and Zelda Sears, and starring Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery as a comically quarrelsome middle-aged couple who operate a tugboat.
- Paul Marquardt (uncredited)
- Irving Thalberg (uncredited)
- August 4, 1933
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.
The movie Tugboat Annie was based on the short stories of Norman Reilly Raine (1894-1971) published in The Saturday Evening Post. Raine began writing his Annie stories in 1931 during a brief stint as a writing instructor at the University of Washington.
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