Biography
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.
Complete Filmography
Run for the Hills
1953
Writer
Fearing nuclear war, an insurance man moves to a cave with his wife and family.
My Forbidden Past
1951
Screenplay
An 1890s New Orleans heiress tries to buy a married doctor's love with her tainted family fortune.
Gilda
1946
Screenplay
A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.
Dangerous Partners
1945
Screenplay
A young couple's accident could make them rich, if they can evade a Nazi spy ring.
I'll Be Seeing You
1944
Writer
Mary Marshall, serving a six year term for accidental manslaughter, is given a Christmas furlough from prison to visit her closest relatives, her uncl...
Cover Girl
1944
Adaptation
A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.
Dangerously They Live
1941
Screenplay
A New York City doctor tries to rescue a young woman from Nazi agents.
Washington Melodrama
1941
Screenplay
An elderly businessman (Frank Morgan) plans what he thinks is an innocent night on the town while his wife is away. Instead, he finds himself involved...
Blonde Inspiration
1941
Screenplay
A writer of pulp Westerns cranks out more words than his editor and publisher want to pay for.
Gallant Sons
1940
Screenplay
When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.
The Golden Fleecing
1940
Screenplay
A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.
These Glamour Girls
1939
Screenplay
A 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...
Miracles for Sale
1939
Screenplay
A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.
Love Is a Headache
1938
Screenplay
A 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 kn...
Beg, Borrow or Steal
1937
Screenplay
We 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 ...
Live, Love and Learn
1937
Original Story
A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his stra...
Between Two Women
1937
Screenplay
Allen Meighan, an intern, assures himself residency at 'General Hospital', when he saves the life of a man trapped in an explosion. Allen is in love w...
The Thirteenth Chair
1937
Screenplay
A phony psychic tries to solve a murder that took place during her seance.