and The Big Heat (1953) and The Long Gray Line for Columbia Pictures before returning to Universal. He left Universal and made Starlift (1951) and The Story of Will Rogers (1952) for Warner Bros. In 1965 Arthur said this was his favorite movie. Īrthur produced Louisa (1950) which starred Ronald Reagan who became a good friend. He also wrote the story for Francis Goes to the Races.
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He produced the first of the popular Francis the Talking Mule film series in 1950 as well as the last, Francis in the Haunted House (1956). He produced five further films for Abbott and Costello - The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap (1947), Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), Mexican Hayride (1948), Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949) and Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950). Universal Īfter the war, he joined Universal Pictures and his first production was the successful Buck Privates Come Home (1947) starring Abbott and Costello. ĭuring World War II, he served under Pare Lorentz in the Army's Air Transport Command and produced 600 short training films. He began working as a screenwriter and joined MGM in 1937, where he wrote the screenplay for New Moon (1940) and the story for Chip Off the Old Block (1944).
Early life and career īorn in New York as Robert Arthur Feder, he attended Southwestern University and the University of Southern California before going to work in the oil industry in 1929. Robert Arthur (Novem– October 28, 1986) was an American screenwriter and producer best known for his long association with Universal Studios.
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