Trivia

The recipient of television's very first Emmy award.

In 2005 Rubin began attending classes at UCLA to get the last few credits to earn a bachelor of arts degree he missed earning in 1937.

Film editor Dann Cahn recommended a young woman he was dating for the part of a beautiful young woman in Your Show Time (1949). Producer Stanley Rubin auditioned her and turned her down because she did not have enough experience. The young woman's name was Marilyn Monroe.

His favorite film was the RKO thriller The Narrow Margin (1952).

During World War II, he served with the Army's First Motion Picture Unit.

Interviewed in "Earth vs. the Sci-Fi Filmmakers" by Tom Weaver (McFarland, 2005).

Began his career in the mailroom at Paramount.

For five years was president of the Producers Guild.

Was under contract as a writer at Universal in 1940. He then worked at Columbia from 1946 to 1948, subsequently turning producer for NBC-TV. H e later worked in TV production at Universal Studios in 1960, at 20th Century Fox in 1967 and then at MGM Studios from 1972 to 1977.