Known for Writing
Julius J. Epstein (August 22, 1909 – December 30, 2000) was an American screenwriter, who had a long career, best remembered for his screenplay, written with his twin brother, Philip, and Howard E. Koch, of the film Casablanca (1942), for which the writers won an Academy Award. It was adapted from an unpublished play, Everybody Comes to Rick's, written by Murray Bennett and Joan Alison. His identical twin died in 1952, a loss that he felt for the rest of his life. He continued writing, receiving two more Oscar nominations. In 1998, he received a Los Angeles Film Critics Association career achievement award. His credits included Four Daughters (1938) for which he received his first Oscar nomination, The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941), The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942), Mr. Skeffington (1944), The Tender Trap (1955), Light in the Piazza (1962), Send Me No Flowers (1964), Pete 'n' Tillie (1972), Cross of Iron (1977) and Reuben, Reuben (1983). Epstein had a less successful result as a playwright in Broadway theatre. He adapted his play Front Porch in Flatbush into Saturday Night, the first professional musical written by Stephen Sondheim. The musical was intended to open on Broadway in 1955, but was shelved due to the death of its lead producer. His play, But, Seriously (starring Richard Dreyfuss and Tom Poston) would prove to be the last to be staged at Henry Miller's Theatre for more than 30 years, opening on February 27, 1969, and closing after only four performances. Description above from the Wikipedia article Julius J. Epstein, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born
August 22, 1909
Died
December 30, 2000 (age 91)
Birthplace
New York City, New York, USA
Filmography
60 films, 3 shows


Reuben, Reuben
1983 · 1h 41m · US
A drunken Scottish poet who has not written a word in years feels compelled to regain control of his life and work after meeting a beautiful young woman.


House Calls
1978 · 1h 38m · US
Charley is a surgeon who's recently lost his wife; he embarks on a tragicomic romantic quest with one woman after another until he meets up with Ann, a singular woman, closer to his own age, who immediately and unexpectedly captures his heart.


Cross of Iron
1977 · 2h 13m · DE
It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of the madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky and the courageous Corporal Steiner. Stransky is the only man who believes that the Third Reich is still vastly superior to the Russian army. However, within his pompous persona lies a quivering coward who longs for the Iron Cross so that he can return to Berlin a hero. Steiner, on the other hand is cynical, defiantly non-conformist and more concerned with the safety of his own men rather than the horde of military decorations offered to him by his superiors.


Any Wednesday
1966 · 1h 49m · US
Ellen Gordon, a New York executive's mistress falls for the executive's young business associate when the young man is accidentally sent to use the apartment where the executive and his mistress get together every Wednesday. More complications arise when the executive's wife shows up with plans to redecorate the apartment.


Return from the Ashes
1965 · 1h 45m · UK
A Jewish woman, Dr. Michele Wolf, interred in a Nazi concentration camp during WWII returns to her Paris home after the war's end. She's unaware that her husband, the handsome gigolo and chess master Stanislaw Pilgrin, has been having an affair with her stepdaughter Fabi in her absence.


Send Me No Flowers
1964 · 1h 40m · US
When a hypochondriac assumes that he is dying, he makes an elaborate plan to ensure his wife's happiness. However, trouble ensues when she misunderstands his intentions.


Light in the Piazza
1962 · 1h 42m · US
A young American woman traveling in Italy with her mother is slender, blonde, beautiful and there is something charmingly naive about her. Fabrizio Naccarelli seems to always know where the mother and daughter will sightsee next. Signor Naccarelli is just as concerned about where this will lead as Mrs. Johnson is. Then she starts thinking that perhaps her daughter can be a wife of a wealthy young man in a society where all she has to do is look beautiful. What happens if Signor Naccarelli finds out who his prospective daughter-in-law really is?


Fanny
1961 · 2h 13m · US
Almost 19-year-old Marius feels himself in a rut in Marseille, his life planned for him by his cafe'-owning father, and he longs for the sea. The night before he is to leave on a 5-year voyage, Fanny, a girl he grew up with, reveals that she is in love with him, and he discovers that he is in love with her. He must choose between an exciting life at sea, and a boring life with the woman he loves. And Fanny must choose between keeping the man she loves, and letting him live the life he seems to want.


Tall Story
1960 · 1h 29m · US
A young insecure college sportsman is in trouble. He wants to marry his very straightforward girlfriend, but has no money. When he is offered a bribe to fix a game, he is torn even more about the matter.


Take a Giant Step
1959 · 1h 40m · US
After African-American teenager Spence Scott gets expelled from his private school for arguing with a teacher, he turns to his grandmother for advice. Spence, who lives in a genteel white area and has mostly white friends, feels like an outsider. He visits a bar in a black neighborhood, where he meets a few prostitutes, which doesn't help. Eventually, Spence starts a friendship with the housekeeper, Christine, who tells him her own difficult story.


The Reluctant Debutante
1958 · 1h 34m · US
While visiting her father, an American teenage girl is thrown into London society during its final "Debutante Season."


The Brothers Karamazov
1958 · 2h 25m · US
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.


Kiss Them for Me
1957 · 1h 45m · US
Three navy war heroes are booked on a morale-building "vacation" in San Francisco. Once they manage to elude their ulcerated public relations officer, the trio throw a wild party with plenty of pretty girls.


The Tender Trap
1955 · 1h 51m · US
A young actress flirts demurely with a swinging Manhattan bachelor who thinks he has it made.


Young at Heart
1954 · 1h 57m · US
The lives and romances of three sisters in a musical family; the youngest daughter's life is complicated by the subsequent arrival of a charming composer and a cynical music arranger.


The Last Time I Saw Paris
1954 · 1h 56m · US
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.


Forever Female
1953 · 1h 33m · US
An aging actress has a hard time admitting she is too old to play the ingenue role anymore.


Take Care of My Little Girl
1951 · 1h 33m · US
A young woman enters college and learns some hard truths about sorority life, including snobbery and the cruelty of hazing.


Romance on the High Seas
1948 · 1h 39m · US
Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband cheating. Meanwhile equally suspicious husband Michael Kent has sent a private eye on the same cruise to catch his wife cheating. Love and confusion ensues along with plenty of musical numbers.


Arsenic and Old Lace
1944 · 1h 58m · US
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. Skeffington
1944 · 2h 25m · US
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.


Casablanca
1943 · 1h 42m · US
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.


Yankee Doodle Dandy
1942 · 2h 6m · US
A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.


The Male Animal
1942 · 1h 41m · US
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.


The Man Who Came to Dinner
1941 · 1h 52m · US
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in indefinitely with a Midwestern family.


The Bride Came C.O.D.
1941 · 1h 32m · US
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 Strawberry Blonde
1941 · 1h 37m · US
Biff Grimes is desperately in love with Virginia, but his best friend Hugo marries her and manipulates Biff into becoming involved in his somewhat nefarious businesses. Hugo appears to have stolen Biff's dreams, and Biff has to deal with the realisation that having what he wants and wanting what another has can be very different things.


No Time for Comedy
1940 · 1h 38m · US
An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success.


Saturday's Children
1940 · 1h 42m · US
An inventor and his bride get testy in the city as they try to make ends meet.


Four Wives
1939 · 1h 39m · US
In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she falls in love with Felix, but on the day of her engagement discovers that she carries Mickey's child.


Secrets of an Actress
1938 · 1h 10m · US
Two architects lose their heads over a glamorous actress.


Four Daughters
1938 · 1h 30m · US
Musician Adam Lemp and his four equally musical daughters, Emma, Ann, Kay, and Thea, live happily together. Each daughter has an upstanding young man for whom she cares. However, the arrival of a cynical, slovenly young composer named Mickey Borden turns the household upside-down, and romantic and tragic complications ensue.


Sons o' Guns
1936 · 1h 15m · US
Broadway star Jimmy Canfield stars in a patriotic show on the great white way during WWI. He plays the heroic soldier, but he is doesn't want to join the Army. To evade some troubles with fellow actress Berenice, he acts like joining the forces going over there, but that turns out to be real. In France he falls in love with a French barmaid and is arrested as spy. He escapes from prison, only to end in the uniform of a German officer leading "his" soldiers in an Allied trap. But being escaped from prison and wearing the enemy's uniform isn't that healthy in wartime.


Stars Over Broadway
1935 · 1h 29m · US
An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation.


I Live for Love
1935 · 1h 4m · US
A failed actor finds success as a radio singer.


Little Big Shot
1935 · 1h 18m · US
A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.


In Caliente
1935 · 1h 24m · US
At a Mexican resort, a fast-talking magazine editor woos the dancer he's trashed in print.


Living on Velvet
1935 · 1h 15m · US
A lay-about falls for his best friend's fiancee. The two of them run away from a life of privilege to one of middle-class normalcy. When an influx of money enters their life, their differences come to light.