Robin Swicord Articles

Robin Swicord, Lizabeth Scott, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers screening Veteran actress Lizabeth Scott and screenwriter Robin Swicord (Little Women, Memoirs of a Geisha) attended a screening of Lewis Milestone's 1946 The Strange Love of Martha Ivers back in June 2010. (Click on the image to enlarge it.) Scott, who'll turn 89 next September 29, was a Paramount star in the second half of [...]

MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA (2005) Direction: Rob Marshall Cast: Ziyi Zhang, Gong Li, Michelle Yeoh, Ken Watanabe, Koji Yakusho, Youki Kudoh, Mako, Tsai Chin Screenplay: Robin Swicord; from Arthur Golden's novel Oscar Movies Ziyi Zhang, Ken Watanabe, Memoirs of a Geisha There are some movies that are released before their time. Only years or decades later, do they come to be appreciated. In the case [...]

2009 USC Scripter Awards 2009 Scripter Award nominations: Jan. 6, 2009 2009 Scripter Award winners: Jan. 30, 2009 ("*" denotes the winner)   Dev Patel, Freida Pinto in Slumdog Millionaire   Screenwriter Eric Roth, who shares story credit with Robin Swicord, for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, based on the short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald Screenwriters Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby and Art [...]

Merrick Morton/Paramount Pictures In the London Times, screenwriter Eric Roth discusses "The curious case of the making of Benjamin Button" with Kevin Maher: "'In 1922 F.Scott Fitzgerald had a baby girl,' continues the 63-year-old Oscar-winner Roth (Forrest Gump). 'And when she was three months old he wrote a short story, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.' The tale, about a man who was born at [...]