{{short description|American film producer}} {{Use American English|date=March 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2026}} '''Stanley Creamer Rubin''' (October 8, 1917 – March 2, 2014) was an American screenwriter and film and television producer born in New York City. He was the recipient of the [[National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences|Television Academy]]'s first [[Emmy Award|Emmy]] in 1949 for writing and producing (in collaboration) an adaptation of [[Guy de Maupassant]]'s "[[The Necklace]]" for the NBC TV series ''[[Your Show Time]]''.<ref>[http://journals.dartmouth.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Journals.woa/2/xmlpage/4/article/312 A (Very) Personal History of the First Sponsored Film Series on National Television]</ref>
==Career== His initial scripts for the big screen were for three 1940 films: ''South to Karanga'', ''[[Diamond Frontier]]'', and ''San Francisco Docks'', all written in collaboration with Edmund L. Hartmann. He wrote, in collaboration with Bernard C. Schoenfeld, the film-noir adventure ''[[Macao (1952 film)|Macao]]'' (1952), starring [[Robert Mitchum]] and [[Jane Russell]].
Rubin was a producer for [[20th Century Fox]] before moving to [[Universal Pictures]] in 1953.<ref>{{cite news|title=TRACY IS SOUGHT FOR KOREA FILM|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=October 26, 1953|page=26|last=Pryor|first=Thomas M.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1953/10/26/archives/tracy-is-sought-for-korea-film-paramount-wants-actor-for-bridges-at.html|access-date=March 12, 2024}}</ref> Rubin's feature film producing credits include ''[[The Narrow Margin]]'' (1952), ''[[River of No Return]]'' (1954) starring [[Marilyn Monroe]], the comedy ''[[Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad (film)|Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad]]'' (1967) starring [[Rosalind Russell]], and the [[Clint Eastwood]] adventure drama ''[[White Hunter Black Heart]]'' (1990). His television producing credits include the series ''[[The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (TV series)|The Ghost & Mrs. Muir]]'' (1968–1970) with [[Hope Lange]] and ''[[The Man and the City]]'' (1971–1972) with [[Anthony Quinn]]. For the former, he received an Emmy nomination as the producer of the Best Comedy Series. He received an additional Emmy nomination for producing the made-for-TV movie ''Babe'' (1975), starring [[Susan Clark]] as American athlete [[Babe Zaharias|Babe Didrikson Zaharias]].
==Personal life and death== Rubin attended [[UCLA]] from 1933 to 1937 as a political science major, where he also served as editor in chief of the ''[[Daily Bruin]]'' newspaper. He forwent completing the 14 units left for his degree for a stint at ''The Beverly Hills Citizen''.
During World War II he enlisted in the [[United States Army Air Forces]] where he served in the [[First Motion Picture Unit]]. He was posted to [[Saipan]] to document the first B-29 mission to bomb Tokyo.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/world-war-ii-the-movie-21103597/ | title=World War II: The Movie }}</ref>
After his retirement from the entertainment industry, he returned to finish those units and received a degree from the [[UCLA Department of Theater]] in 2006.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.magazine.ucla.edu/depts/quicktakes/rubin/ | title=Old School | date=January 1, 2006 | work=UCLA Magazine | accessdate=August 27, 2020}}</ref>
Rubin was married to actress [[Kathleen Hughes]] from 1954 until his death.<ref>[http://www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/show/136/Kathleen+Hughes/index.html Kathleen Hughes - Glamour Girls of the Silver Screen]</ref> They had four children. He is the subject of the [[documentary film]] ''Stanley Rubin: A Work in Progress'' (2008), written and directed by Kellett Tighe.
He died on March 2, 2014, from [[natural causes]] at the age of 96 at his [[Los Angeles]] home.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-stanley-rubin-20140305-story.html#axzz2v2GSbf15 | title=Stanley Rubin dies at 96; prolific writer-producer of TV and film | first=Bob | last=Pool | work=Los Angeles Times | date=March 4, 2014 | accessdate=August 27, 2020}}</ref>
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==External links== *{{IMDb name|id=0748166|name=Stanley Rubin}} *{{emmyTVLegends name|stanley-rubin}} {{Authority control}}
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