Robert Carson (October 6, 1909, Clayton, Washington – January 19, 1983, Los Angeles, California) was an American film and television screenwriter, novelist, and short story writer, who won an Academy Award in 1938 for his screenplay of A Star Is Born. He was married to Mary Jane Irving, a former child actress.^[1]

Film screenwriting credits[edit]

• A Star Is Born (1937). Academy Award for best writing, original story, shared with William A. Wellman. Nominated for best writing, screenplay, shared with Alan Campbell and Dorothy Parker.
• The Last Gangster (1937)
• Men with Wings (1938)
• Beau Geste (1939)
• The Light That Failed (1939)
• Western Union (1941)
• The Desperadoes (1943)^[2]
• Once More, My Darling (1949)
• Just for You (1952)
• Bundle of Joy (1956)

Television screenwriting credits[edit]

• Westinghouse Studio One, 1948 (various episodes)

Bibliography[edit]

• The Revels Are Ended (1936). Doubleday.^[3]
• "Aloha Means Goodbye", a serialized short novel about a Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, published in The Saturday Evening Post in June/July 1941, six months before the actual attack occurred. The story was the basis for the film Across the Pacific (1942).
• Stranger in Our Midst (1947). G.P. Putnam. Reprinted 1953, Popular Library.^[4]
• The Magic Lantern (1952), a fictionalized account of Hollywood. Henry Holt
• The Quality of Mercy (1954). Henry Holt.^[5]
• Love Affair (1958). Henry Holt. reprinted 1959, Popular Library.
• My Hero^[6] (1961) McGraw Hill. Reprinted 1962, Crest Books
• An End to Comedy (1963) Bobbs-Merrill^[7]
• The Outsiders (1966), Little, Brown. Reprinted 1970, Coronet^[8]
• Jellybean (1974), a civil war period western. Little, Brown ISBN 0-316-13026-5

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Robert Carson at IMDb
• Carson at Variety