Background
Robert S. Bassler was born on September 23rd in 1903 in Washington D.C. where he received his entire education, finishing with a B.A. at the George Washington University of Washington. He had decided early on that he wanted to be involved with film making, or Motion Pictures as it was called early on. He apprenticed as a film editor at Paramount Studios and quickly climbed the ranks to become a Producer in 1941 at 20th Century Fox Studios.