Philip G. Epstein

Writing

Philip G. Epstein

Born August 22, 1909 · New York City, New York, USA

Died February 7, 1952 · aged 42

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Philip G. Epstein (August 22, 1909 – February 7, 1952) was an American screenwriter most known for his adaptation in partnership with his twin brother, Julius, and others, of the unproduced play Everybody Comes to Rick's which became the Academy Award-winning screenplay of the film Casablanca (1942). Epstein was born in New York City and raised on the Lower…

Known For

CasablancaCasablanca · 1943
Casablanca
★ 8.11943
MovieDramaRomance
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
Arsenic and Old LaceArsenic and Old Lace · 1944
Arsenic and Old Lace
★ 7.61944
MovieComedyCrime
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!
Mr. SkeffingtonMr. Skeffington · 1944
Mr. Skeffington
★ 6.81944
MovieDramaRomance
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.
The Mad Miss MantonThe Mad Miss Manton · 1938
The Mad Miss Manton
★ 6.41938
MovieComedyCrime
When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she and her group of friends prove them wrong.
The Bride Came C.O.D.The Bride Came C.O.D. · 1941
The Bride Came C.O.D.
★ 7.01941
MovieComedyRomance
A financially-strapped charter pilot hires himself to an oil tycoon to kidnap his madcap daughter and prevent her from marrying a vapid band leader.
The Last Time I Saw ParisThe Last Time I Saw Paris · 1954
The Last Time I Saw Paris
★ 6.11954
MovieDramaRomance
Reporter Charles Wills, in Paris to cover the end of World War II, falls for the beautiful Helen Ellswirth following a brief flirtation with her sister, Marion. After he and Helen marry, Charles pursues his novelistic ambition while supporting his new bride with a deadening job at a newspaper wire service. But when an old investment suddenly makes the family wealthy, their marriage begins to unravel — until a sudden tragedy changes everything.
The Brothers KaramazovThe Brothers Karamazov · 1958
The Brothers Karamazov
★ 6.51958
MovieDramaHistory
Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons include Dmitri, the eldest, an elegant officer, always broke and at odds with his father, betrothed to Katya, herself lovely and rich. The other brothers include a sterile aesthete, a factotum who is a bastard, and a monk. Family tensions erupt when Dmitri falls in love with one of his father's mistresses, the coquette Grushenka. Two brothers see Dmitri's jealousy of their father as an opportunity to inherit sooner. Acts of violence lead to the story's conclusion: trials of honor, conscience, forgiveness, and redemption.
The Male AnimalThe Male Animal · 1942
The Male Animal
★ 4.71942
MovieComedyRomance
The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threatened mild mannered English Professor Tommy Turner, because he plans to read a controversial piece of prose in class. Tommy is upset that his wife Ellen also suggested he not read the passage. Meanwhile, Ellen's old boyfriend, the football player Joe Ferguson, comes to visit for the homecoming weekend. He takes Ellen out dancing after the football rally, causing Tommy to worry that he will lose her to Joe.

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