Robert Nathan
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Law & Order: Criminal Intent (season 8)...show runner, executive producer, and head writer in seasons six and seven, it was announced in July 2008 that Walon Green and Robert Nathan would share Leight's role for the forthcoming eighth season, handling eight episodes each; however,... In this article: Jeff Goldblum, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, USA Network, NBC, Julianne Nicholson, Dick Wolf, Law & Order, New York City Police Department, and Robert Nathan |
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Wikipedia | November 27, 2009
Basil Thomson
...counter-espionage operations. In his memoirs, The Scene Changes, Thomson acknowledges only the works of Robert Nathan , who worked closely with him, and was involved in the interrogation of a number of Indian revolutionaries who worked...
In this article: William Thomson, Basil Home Thomson, Metropolitan Police, Companion of the Order of the Bath, and Bolsheviks
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Wikipedia | November 23, 2009
The White Cliffs of Dover (1944 film)
...West, Jan Lustig and George Froeschel, based on the Alice Duer Miller poem entitled The White Cliffs with additional poetry by Robert Nathan. It tells the story of an American girl who travels abroad to England and falls in love with...
In this article: The White Cliffs of Dover, Clarence Brown, Irene Dunne, C. Aubrey Smith, Academy Award, World War I, George Froeschel, Alice Duer Miller, and Gladys Cooper
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Wikipedia | November 18, 2009
The Bishop's Wife
It was released by RKO. The film was adapted by Leonardo Bercovici and Robert E. Sherwood from the novel of the same name by Robert Nathan, and was directed by Henry Koster. The film won the Academy Award for Sound, and was nominated for...
In this article: The Bishop's Wife, Cary Grant, David Niven, The Preacher's Wife, Loretta Young, and Henry Koster
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Wikipedia | November 13, 2009
Anna Lee
...actor better known by his stage name of Jeffrey Byron. Lee and Stafford divorced in 1964. Lee's final marriage was to novelist Robert Nathan, (The Bishop's Wife, Portrait of Jennie), on April 5, 1970, and to whom she was married until his...
In this article: Anna Lee, Jeffrey Byron, Venetia Stevenson, Leslie Charleson, General Hospital, Lila Quartermaine, Wendy Riche, Don Everly, Coal, and World War II
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Wikipedia | November 08, 2009
Academy Award Theater
...any drama could be presented as long as the cast included at least one Oscar-nominated performer. For example, Robert Nathan's 1940 novel Portrait of Jennie was not released as a film until 1949. David O. Selznick, having acquired the...
In this article: Oscar, Portrait of Jennie, David O. Selznick, Jeff Chandler, Bette Davis, Fay Bainter, and The Keys of the Kingdom
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Wikipedia | October 23, 2009
Maud Nathan
...Israel during the Revolutionary War . Her sister was the author and education activist Annie Nathan Meyer and her cousins the poet Emma Lazarus and Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo. Her nephew was the author and poet Robert Nathan.
In this article: Maud Nathan, Emma Lazarus, New York, Revolutionary War, Annie Nathan Meyer, Benjamin Cardozo, and Budapest
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Wikipedia | October 16, 2009
Portrait of Jennie
...is a 1948 fantasy film based on the novella by Robert Nathan. The film was directed by William Dieterle and produced by David O. Selznick. It stars Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten. In 1934, impoverished painter Eben Adams (Joseph Cotten)...
In this article: Portrait of Jennie, David O. Selznick, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, New York City, Albert Sharpe, and Bernard Herrmann
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Wikipedia | September 14, 2009
SF '57: The Year's Greatest Science Fiction and Fantasy
...About 'The Thing'", by Randall Garrett "Put Them All Together, They Spell Monster", by Ray Russell "Digging the Weans", by Robert Nathan "Take a Deep Breath", by Roger Thorne "Grandma's Lie Soap", by Robert Abernathy "Prima...
In this article: SF '57: The Year's Greatest Science Fiction And Fantasy, Each an Explorer, Theodore L. Thomas, Randall Garrett, Judith Merril, Robert Abernathy, Gnome Press, Ray Russell, and J. G. Ballard
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Wikipedia | September 01, 2009
Portrait of Jennie (novella)
Portrait of Jennie is a novellare written by Robert Nathan and first published in 1940. It is a haunting story which combines romance, fantasy, mystery and the supernatural. It also is commonly referred to as his most successful of all his...
In this article: David O. Selznick
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Times Online | January 29, 2009
War on West 155th Street
...1935, another, Sinclair Lewis, accepted - after an initial refusal - membership in the Institute. In 1936, Pearl Buck and Robert Nathan were elected; in 1937, Sherwood Anderson, James Branch Cabell, John Dos Passos, Thomas Wolfe and Robinson...
In this article: Ezra Pound, Walter Damrosch, Nicholas Murray Butler, The American Academy, and Robert Grant
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For the British Intelligence Officer, see Robert Nathan (Indian civil servant).
Robert Gruntal Nathan (January 2, 1894–May 25, 1985) was an American novelist and poet.
Nathan was born into a prominent New York family. He was educated in the United States and Switzerland and attended Harvard University for several years beginning in 1912. It was there that he began writing short fiction and poetry. However, he never graduated, choosing instead to drop out and take a job at an advertising firm to support his family (he married while a junior at Harvard.) It was while working in 1919 that he wrote his first novel—the semi-autobiographical work Peter Kindred—which was a critical failure. But his luck soon changed during the 1920s, when he wrote seven more novels, including The Bishop's Wife, which was later made into a successful film starring Cary Grant, David Niven, and Loretta Young.
During the 1930s, his success continued with more works, including fictional pieces and poetry. In 1940, he wrote his most successful book, Portrait of Jennie, about a Depression-era artist and the woman he is painting, who is slipping through time. Portrait of Jennie is considered a modern masterpiece of fantasy fiction and was made into a film, starring Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten.
Many of Nathan's stories seem to have an other-worldly air about them, though he was never classed as a writer of science fiction as much as a writer of fantasy.
Mr. Nathan's seventh wife was the British actress Anna Lee, to whom he was married from 1970 until his death. He came from a talented family — the activist Maud Nathan and author Annie Nathan Meyer were his aunts, and the poet Emma Lazarus and Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo his cousins.
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