Thelma Robinson
Thelma Robinson | |
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Born | Thelma Merle Snider May 9, 1913 Keokuk, Iowa, USA |
Died | May 2, 1965 (aged 61) Los Angeles, California, USA |
Occupation | Screenwriter, TV writer |
Years active | 1946–1960 |
Spouse(s) | George Haight (1950–her death) |
Thelma Robinson was an American film and TV writer active from the 1940s through the 1960s. Her credits include films like Up Goes Maisie and Undercover Maisie.
Biography[]
Thelma Merle Snider was born in Keokuk, Iowa, to Willis Snider and Sylvia Wilcox. She was raised by her mother and her stepfather, Hamilton Robinson, whose last name she took on. She spent much of her childhood in Huntington Beach, California.
She began working on screenplays in Hollywood by the mid-1940s; her first credit was on 1946's Up Goes Maisie, directed by Harry Beaumont.[1] She also wrote the follow-up film, Undercover Maisie, and later contributed to 1952's Because of You.
In the 1950s, after marrying writer-producer George Haight (with whom she had collaborated previously), she concentrated on television, writing episodes of shows like Lassie, National Velvet, and Fireside Theatre.
She died in Los Angeles on May 2, 1965.
Selected works[]
For TV:
- National Velvet (1 episode, 1960)
- Lux Video Theatre (1 episode, 1956)
- Lassie (4 episodes, 1955-1956)
- Fireside Theatre (1 episode, 1955)
- Four Star Theatre (2 episodes, 1954)
For film:
- Because of You (1952)
- Undercover Maisie (1947)
- Up Goes Maisie (1946)
References[]
- ^ "2 Jan 1945, 8 - The San Francisco Examiner at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2019-01-31.
- People from Huntington Beach, California
- American women screenwriters
- 1913 births
- 1965 deaths
- 20th-century American women writers
- 20th-century American screenwriters
- American screenwriter stubs