Frank Partos
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Frank Partos (1901 - 1956) an American screenwriter, and an early executive committee member of the Screen Actor's Guild, which he helped found.
[edit] Career
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 introduction to Irving Thalberg. He was given a position as a reader and later given a book by Vicki Baum to write a synopsis. Irving Thalberg decided to make Grand Hotel based on that synopsis and had Partos work as a screen writer on the project. Partos did not get screen credit and, because to that slight, left MGM.== External links ==
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