Writing
Marion Parsonnet
Known for
Writing
Credits
16 titles
1905-1960. Film writer and TV producer, Parsonnet had also served as program director for CBS and later wrote for several films with MGM and Columbia Pictures. He was president of Parsonnet Studios in New York and more recently had been devoted to writing teleplays.
Known for
7.5A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.
Gilda
1946
6.9Mary Marshall, serving six years for accidental manslaughter, is given a Christmas furlough to visit her closest relatives, her uncle and his family in a small Midwestern town. On the journey, she meets Zach Morgan, a troubled army sergeant on leave from a military hospital. Although his physical wounds have healed, he suffers from PTSD and is subject to panic attacks. The pair are attracted to one another and, in the warm atmosphere of the Christmas season friendship, blossoms into romance, but Mary is reluctant to tell him of her past and that she must shortly return to serve the remainder of her sentence.
I'll Be Seeing You
1944
6.5A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill attempts to get her some publicity by having her adopt two orphans, without her knowledge.
Love Is a Headache
1938
6.3A New York City doctor tries to rescue a young woman from Nazi agents.
Dangerously They Live
1941
5.5An 1890s New Orleans heiress tries to buy a married doctor's love with her tainted family fortune.
My Forbidden Past
1951
6.0We find con-man Ingraham Steward living by his wits by steering wealthy Paris visitors to sellers of fake paintings and other assorted dodges. He and his wife, Agatha, have been separated for 15 years, but he promises to give their daughter, Joyce, a lavish wedding at his "château" in France. The fact that he doesn't have a château in France is just a minor trifle. He induces the caretaker, Bill Cherau, of a large country estate to allow it to be used for the wedding. The wedding party arrives and Bill falls madly in love with Joyce and she with him, but a gal has gotta do what a gal has gotta do, and her intended marriage to stuffed-shirt Horace Miller stays on the books. But Steward has a change of heart and he tells one and all that he and his friends, Von Gersdorff, Lefevre, Iznamof, Clifton Summitt and Sasch, are all frauds and crooks. Horace and his family stalk out, which is just fine with Joyce as her true love, the caretaker, is waiting on the grounds.
Beg, Borrow or Steal
1937
Behind the camera
7.5A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.
Gilda
1946
6.9Mary Marshall, serving six years for accidental manslaughter, is given a Christmas furlough to visit her closest relatives, her uncle and his family in a small Midwestern town. On the journey, she meets Zach Morgan, a troubled army sergeant on leave from a military hospital. Although his physical wounds have healed, he suffers from PTSD and is subject to panic attacks. The pair are attracted to one another and, in the warm atmosphere of the Christmas season friendship, blossoms into romance, but Mary is reluctant to tell him of her past and that she must shortly return to serve the remainder of her sentence.
I'll Be Seeing You
1944
6.5A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill attempts to get her some publicity by having her adopt two orphans, without her knowledge.
Love Is a Headache
1938
6.3A New York City doctor tries to rescue a young woman from Nazi agents.
Dangerously They Live
1941
5.5An 1890s New Orleans heiress tries to buy a married doctor's love with her tainted family fortune.
My Forbidden Past
1951
6.0We find con-man Ingraham Steward living by his wits by steering wealthy Paris visitors to sellers of fake paintings and other assorted dodges. He and his wife, Agatha, have been separated for 15 years, but he promises to give their daughter, Joyce, a lavish wedding at his "château" in France. The fact that he doesn't have a château in France is just a minor trifle. He induces the caretaker, Bill Cherau, of a large country estate to allow it to be used for the wedding. The wedding party arrives and Bill falls madly in love with Joyce and she with him, but a gal has gotta do what a gal has gotta do, and her intended marriage to stuffed-shirt Horace Miller stays on the books. But Steward has a change of heart and he tells one and all that he and his friends, Von Gersdorff, Lefevre, Iznamof, Clifton Summitt and Sasch, are all frauds and crooks. Horace and his family stalk out, which is just fine with Joyce as her true love, the caretaker, is waiting on the grounds.
Beg, Borrow or Steal
1937
6.5A phony psychic tries to solve a murder that took place during her seance.
The Thirteenth Chair
1937
6.0Hospital intern Allen Meighan assures himself residency when he saves the life of a man trapped in an explosion. Allen is in love with student nurse Claire Donahue, and she with him, but she's married to the physically abusive Tom.
Between Two Women
1937
6.0An elderly businessman plans what he thinks is an innocent night on the town while his wife is away. Instead, he finds himself involved in a showgirl's murder.
Washington Melodrama
1941
6.0Fearing nuclear war, an insurance man moves to a cave with his wife and family.
Run for the Hills
1953
5.9A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.
The Golden Fleecing
1940
5.8A writer of pulp Westerns cranks out more words than his editor and publisher want to pay for.
Blonde Inspiration
1941
5.9A drunken college student invites a dance hostess to the big college dance and then forgets he asked her. When she shows up at school, he tries to get rid of her, but she won't leave. Instead, she stays and shows up both him and his classmates' snooty dates.
These Glamour Girls
1939
6.4Retired performer Mike Morgan sells original illusions to fellow magicians, and although he believes in the supernatural, likes to expose sham psychics. This involves him in some mysterious murders.
Miracles for Sale
1939
6.8A young couple's accident could make them rich, if they can evade a Nazi spy ring.
Dangerous Partners
1945
7.4When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.
Gallant Sons
1940
