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.New York Times obituary, Jan 22, 1983
Film screenwriting credits 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)VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever 2002, Once More, My Darling (1949) Just for You (1952) Bundle of Joy (1956)
Television screenwriting credits Westinghouse Studio One, 1948 (various episodes)
Bibliography The Revels Are Ended (1936). Doubleday.The Revels Are Ended at Google Books "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."Stranger in Our Midst" at Google Books The Magic Lantern (1952), a fictionalized account of Hollywood. Henry Holt The Quality of Mercy (1954). Henry Holt.The Quality of Mercy at Google Books Love Affair (1958). Henry Holt. reprinted 1959, Popular Library. My HeroJellybean Little, Brown; 1974, author bio (1961) McGraw Hill. Reprinted 1962, Crest Books An End to Comedy (1963) Bobbs-MerrillAn End to Comedy at Google Books The Outsiders (1966), Little, Brown. Reprinted 1970, CoronetThe Outsiders at Google Books Jellybean (1974), a civil war period western. Little, Brown
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Carson at Variety