Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Philip G. Epstein (August 22, 1909 – February 7, 1952) was an American screenwriter most known for his adaptation in partnership with his twin brother, Julius, and others, of the unproduced play Everybody Comes to Rick's which became the Academy Award-winning screenplay of the film Casablanca (1942). Epstein was born in New York City and raised on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. His father was a livery stable owner in the days when horses were still com...
Complete Filmography

Scenes from Casablanca
2025
Writer
A reframing of a section of the Casablanca script. Made for a University assignment.
Why We Fight: World War II: The Battle of China / War Comes to America
2000
Writer
Part of Frank Capra's World War II propaganda series made for the U.S. Armed Forces, this program presents newsreel footage addressing the Battle of C...

The Brothers Karamazov
1958
Screenplay
Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons ...

The Last Time I Saw Paris
1954
Screenplay
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 siste...

Forever Female
1953
Screenplay
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
Writer
A young woman enters college and learns some hard truths about sorority life, including snobbery and the cruelty of hazing.

My Foolish Heart
1950
Writer
After a long absence, Mary Jane visits her schoolfriend Eloise, and Eloise's daughter Ramona. Eloise drinks too much and is unhappily married to Lew W...

Chicken Every Sunday
1949
Theatre Play
A woman takes in boarders to support her husband's harebrained financial schemes.

Romance on the High Seas
1948
Screenplay
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 che...

Arsenic and Old Lace
1944
Screenplay
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married;...

Mr. Skeffington
1944
Screenplay, Producer
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.

Casablanca
1943
Screenplay
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer
1943
Writer
The third film of Frank Capra's 'Why We Fight" propaganda film series, dealing with the Nazi conquest of Western Europe in 1940.

The Male Animal
1942
Screenplay
The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threaten...

The Man Who Came to Dinner
1941
Screenplay
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
Screenplay
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
Screenplay
Biff Grimes is desperately in love with Virginia, but his best friend Hugo marries her and manipulates Biff into becoming involved in his somewhat nef...

Honeymoon for Three
1941
Additional Dialogue
Noted writer Kenneth Bixby, in love with his witty secretary Anne Rogers, is on a book tour when he meets up with a former college fling with a loopy ...

No Time for Comedy
1940
Screenplay
An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success.

Saturday's Children
1940
Screenplay
An inventor and his bride get testy in the city as they try to make ends meet.

Four Wives
1939
Screenplay
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 enga...

Daughters Courageous
1939
Writer
Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her first husband Ji...

There's That Woman Again
1938
Writer
Bill Reardon, a private detective, is working on a case involving stolen items from a local jewelry store. The case takes a different turn when Bill's...

The Mad Miss Manton
1938
Screenplay
When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves t...

New Faces of 1937
1937
Screenplay
A crooked producer makes money from Broadway flops by selling more than 100% interest to multiple parties. He only fails if it makes a profit.

China Passage
1937
Writer
Americans Tommy Baldwin and Joe Dugan are hired to transport a fabulous diamond from Shanghai to San Francisco. They will be paid handsomely on succes...

Mummy's Boys
1936
Screenplay
Wheeler & Woolsey comedy about two moronic ditch diggers, recruited for an archaeology expedition, getting mixed up with jewel thieves and an ancient ...

Grand Jury
1936
Screenplay
When a grand jury acquits a gangster accused of murder, a retired elderly citizen decides it's up to him to see that the criminal is proven guilty and...

The Bride Walks Out
1936
Screenplay
Carolyn Martin is a fashion model who hastily marries her boyfriend, engineer Michael Martin. But part of the marriage arrangement requires that Carol...

Love on a Bet
1936
Screenplay
An aspiring theater producer convinces his wealthy uncle to finance a play on the condition that he lives the play’s far-fetched plot: making a cross-...