Draft:Robert Fontaine (writer)

Not to be confused with this Canadian Robert Fontaine

The Dusty Bookcase: Doing Right by Robert Fontaine

Review: Hello to Springtime by Robert Louis Fontaine

Related to filmmaker (actor, writer, director, and producer) Robert Fontaine Jr.?

Robert Louis Fontaine (1911 - 1965) was a humorist writer from Canada where he grew up before moving to the U.S. He satirized some of his own experiences growing up in autobiographical and semi-autobiographical work.

He was born in Canada and grew up in Ottawa.

He wrote for The Atlantic magazine in the 1950s and 1960s. Originally from Canada, where some of his stories were set, he eventually moved to Springfield, Massachusetts.

He wrote for Joe Cook's radio show before relocating to Hollywood before returning to the east coast tlas a freelance writer and wrote then wrote the novel The Happy Time. He had a wife, who was also a writer, and two daughters, Mary Jo and Brenda.

An interview of him was published in the Rotarian in July 1960. He wrote the story "My Mother's Hands".

The Happy Time(s)?
He gained sales and recognition as a writer with his novel The Happy Time(s)? Happy Time a coming-of-age tale of the son of an "uninhibited" French-Canadian family living in Ottawa the 1920s published in 1945. (stories?) this source says it was a novel.

Adapted to the theater in 1950 by Samuel A. Taylor. Many productions as a theater show followed for decades.

The Happy Time (musical) adapted by Samuel A. Taylor - Fontaine adapted into stories? (a 1950 hit Broadway play) The Happy Time 1952 film based on play? story? Also adapted into a CBC radio show

Books

 * Humorous monologues for teen-agers, a collection of royalty-free dramatic plays?
 * Humorous skits for young people; a collection of royalty-free short plays?
 * The Buttons Keep Falling Off
 * My Uncle Louis (1953)
 * That's a Good Question (1960)
 * Hello to Springtime (1955), Thomas Y. Crowell publisher, a memoir
 * Bon Voyage French ?
 * Movies Ate My Brain ?
 * Paradies des Lebens ?

Articles and essays

 * "Why Don't You Try the Piano Instead?
 * "My buttons keep coming off"