Thelma Robinson

Thelma Merle Snider was born in Keokuk, Iowa, to Willis Snider and Sylvia Wilcox. She was raised by her mother and her stepfather, Hamilton Robinson, whose last name she took on. She spent much of her childhood in Huntington Beach, California.

Robinson began working on screenplays in Hollywood by the mid-1940s; her first credit was on 1946's Up Goes Maisie, directed by Harry Beaumont.^[1] She also wrote the follow-up film, Undercover Maisie, and later contributed to 1952's Because of You.

In the 1950s, after marrying writer-producer George Haight (with whom she had collaborated previously), she concentrated on television, writing episodes of shows like Lassie, National Velvet, and Fireside Theatre.

Robinson died in Los Angeles on May 2, 1965, at the age of 51.

For television:

• National Velvet (1 episode, 1960)
• Lux Video Theatre (1 episode, 1956)
• Lassie (4 episodes, 1955–1956)
• Fireside Theatre (1 episode, 1955)
• Four Star Theatre (2 episodes, 1954)

For film:

• Because of You (1952)
• Undercover Maisie (1947)
• Up Goes Maisie (1946)