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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).
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.
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
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.
And Norman Reilly Raine's Tugboat Annie stories continued in the Saturday Evening Post until Raine's death in 1971. None of these incarnations, however, could rival the indelible impression left by Dressler in one of her best roles.
Norman Reilly Raine's stories of the salty tugboat captain Annie Brennan, a character based on the life of Thea Foss, first appeared in prose form in the weekly US journal Saturday Evening Post in the late 1920s.
