Frank Partos

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Frank Ferenc Partos , actually Ferenc Pártos , (born July 2, 1901 in Budapest , † December 23, 1956 in Los Angeles ) was a Hungarian-American screenwriter .

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Frank Partos, originally from Budapest, emigrated to the United States in 1928. He worked as a journalist and wrote short stories. From 1929 he worked as a writer for Metro , in 1932 he switched to Paramount . Since then he has been involved in numerous scripts. He also helped found the Screen Actors Guild in Los Angeles in 1933 and served on its board in the mid-1930s. In 1939 he left Paramount and worked for RKO . There he wrote the script for the crime film Stranger on the Third Floor (1940), which is counted among the first representatives of film noir . Partos used a self-written story as a template, and the book received the final touches from Nathanael West . In 1948, Partos wrote the script for the feature film The Snake Pit together with the writer Millen Brand . They adapted the autobiographical novel of the same name by Mary Jane Ward , which is about her experiences in psychiatry. For this work, they were nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Adapted Screenplay in 1949 . They also won the Writers Guild of America Award in the Best Written Drama category and the Robert Meltzer Award for the script .

Filmography

  • 1932: Guilty as Hell
  • 1932: Heritage of the Desert
  • 1933: Jennie Gerhardt
  • 1933: Her Bodyguard
  • 1933: Lullaby ( Cradle Song )
  • 1934: Wharf Angel
  • 1934: Thirty Day Princess
  • 1935: Light in the Dark ( Wings in the Dark )
  • 1935: Rumba
  • 1935: College Scandal
  • 1935: The last Fort ( The Last Outpost )
  • 1936: Rose of the Rancho
  • 1936: The Jungle Princess ( The Jungle Princess )
  • 1937: Night of Mystery
  • 1937: Who is Martin Mills? ( The Great Gambini )
  • 1937: She's No Lady
  • 1938: Romance in the Dark
  • 1939: Rio
  • 1939: South Seas Nights ( Honolulu )
  • 1940: Stranger on the Third Floor
  • 1944: The morning is ours ( And Now Tomorrow )
  • 1944: The mysterious guest ( The Uninvited )
  • 1948: The Snake Pit ( The Snake Pit )
  • 1951: The House on Telegraph Hill
  • 1952: Night Without Sleep
  • 1956: Port Africa

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Cargnelli, Michael Omasta: Schatten.Exil: European emigrants in film noir. PVS Verleger, 1997, ISBN 3-901196-26-9 , p. 79.
  2. ↑ Partos, Frank In: Terry Ramsaye (Ed.) International Motion Picture Almanac. Volume 35, Quigley Publications, 1964, p. 225.
  3. ↑ biography In: All Movie Guide . Retrieved January 3, 2014.
  4. ↑ Robert Miklitsch: Siren City: Sound and Music Source in Classic American Noir. Rutgers University Press, 2011 ISBN 0-8135-4898-5 , p. 28.
  5. ↑ Previous Nominees & Winners ( Memento of the original from April 12, 2015 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. wga.org. Retrieved January 2, 2015.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wga.org
  6. ↑ The Robert Meltzer Award ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. wga.org. Retrieved January 2, 2015.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wga.org
personal data
SURNAME Partos, Frank
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Partos, Frank Serenc (full name); Pártos, Ferenc (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-American screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1956
Place of death los Angeles