1. Robert Leicester Wagner was the editor and publisher of Script, a weekly literary film magazine published in Beverly Hills, California, between 1929 and 1949.
28 Facts About Rob Wagner
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Rob Wagner was a magazine writer, screenwriter, director and artist before founding the liberal magazine that focused its coverage on the film industry and California and national politics.
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Rob Wagner worked as an illustrator for the Detroit Free Press before moving to New York in 1897 to illustrate magazine covers.
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Rob Wagner served as art director for The Criterion, a literary magazine considered the forerunner to The New Yorker.
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Rob Wagner wrote for the Saturday Evening Post, The Western Comrade and Liberty magazines among other publications.
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Rob Wagner returned to Detroit in 1903 to marry Jessie Brodhead, and then moved to Paris to study art.
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Rob Wagner wrote his first scenario for The Artist's Sons in 1911.
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Rob Wagner went on to write scenarios for Charles Ray, Hal Roach and Mack Sennett.
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Rob Wagner directed Rogers in Our Congressman, Goin' to Congress and High Brow Stuff, in 1924.
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Rob Wagner was under contract in 1922 and 1923 to write scenarios and titles for Paramount Studios and in 1926 and 1927 for Universal Studios where he was a co-writer on The Collegians.
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Rob Wagner wrote scenarios for film comedian Maurice "Lefty" Flynn for Robertson-Cole Pictures Corporation.
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Rob Wagner wrote scenarios for Constrance Binney at Realart, a low-budget film studio.
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In 1914, Rob Wagner married Kansas City newspaperwoman Florence Welch, who told her new husband that he could make a better living writing about the motion picture industry than working as an artist.
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Rob Wagner covered the film industry writing for the Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, Liberty, Photoplay and other magazines.
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Rob Wagner was an original member of the Board of Trustees.
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Rob Wagner, a Socialist, was a progressive advocate dating to at least 1900 during his tenure as art director at The Criterion.
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Rob Wagner sent his sons to Boyland, an avant-garde boarding school with a progressive, if not unorthodox, approach to education.
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Around 1915 Rob Wagner had become friends with Charlie Chaplin and was employed as the comedian's part-time secretary.
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Rob Wagner waged a publicity campaign on Chaplin's behalf to demonstrate the actor's support.
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Rob Wagner helped organize a War Bond tour that included Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford.
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Shortly before the Liberty Bond tour began some of Rob Wagner's friends informed on him to the US Bureau of Investigation that he supported Germany during the war and expressed his strong opposition to America's entry into the conflict.
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Ruth Sterry claimed that Rob Wagner told her sister that the United States should surrender if Germany invaded.
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The Bureau of Investigation and the War Department's Military Intelligence Branch attempted to determine whether Rob Wagner was a German agent.
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Ultimately agents obtained Rob Wagner's diaries, but found no evidence that he was a German spy.
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Rob Wagner introduced Chaplin to leftists Max Eastman and Upton Sinclair, and between the three men helped influence Chaplin's left-leaning worldview.
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Rob Wagner died of a heart attack on July 20,1942, at age 69, in Santa Barbara.
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Rob Wagner continued championing leftist causes by often profile left-leaning actors and directors.
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Les Rob Wagner died in 1965 in South Laguna Beach, California.