Frank Partos topic

Frank Partos (1901 - 1956) an American screenwriter, and an early executive committee member of the Screen Actor's Guild, which he helped found. He was a staff writer at Paramount Pictures in the mid 1930s, during the early years to the 'talkie' era. In 1939 he moved to RKO where he collaborated on the early noir film Stranger on the Third Floor. He shared an Academy Award nomination for 1948's The Snake Pit with Millen Brand. He arrived in California in the late 1920s with a letter of... full article at wikipedia