Marion Parsonnet

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Marion Parsonnet (born February 21, 1905 in Newark , New Jersey , † December 7, 1960 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American screenwriter and television producer .

Life

Marion Parsonnet attended Newark Academy and then studied at Harvard University . In 1937 he was hired by MGM as a scriptwriter. From 1941 he worked for various film studios, including Warner Brothers , Columbia Pictures and RKO Pictures . At Columbia he was instrumental in the rise of Rita Hayworth to the superstar of the 1940s with his collaboration on the scripts for the films Es tanzt die Göttin (1944) and Gilda (1946) . Both films, the former a film musical , the latter a film noir , were extremely successful at the box office and are considered classics of American film.

In the 1950s Parsonnet set up his own production studio on Long Island , New York, and worked for a while as a television producer before writing screenplays again from 1958, now for television series such as Maverick (1959) and Bonanza (1961). Parsonnet died in 1960 at the age of 55 and was buried in Oheb Shalom Cemetery in Hillside , New Jersey .

Filmography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Broadcasting . Volume 44, Broadcasting Publications, 1953, p. 24.
  2. ^ Vincent Terrace: Television Character and Story Facts. Over 110,000 details from 1,008 shows, 1945-1992 . McFarland, 1993, p. 212.
personal data
SURNAME Parsonnet, Marion
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Newark , New Jersey
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 1960
Place of death Los Angeles , California