American screenwriter Frank Partos (1901 - 1956) spent the first three years of the talkie era as a staff writer at Paramount. In the mid-30s, he served on the executive committee of the Screen Actor's Guild, which he'd helped found in 1933. He moved from Paramount to RKO in 1939, where he collaborated on the embryonic noir effort “Stranger on the Third Floor” (1940). Active until 1955, Partos shared an Academy Award nomination for 1948's “The Snake Pit”. Screenwriters, scenarists or script writers, are authors who write the screenplays from which movies and television programs are made. ... 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Look up Paramount on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Paramount can refer to: Paramount, California, a city in Los Angeles County Paramount Pictures, a motion picture company Paramount Records, a record label United Paramount Network (UPN), a television network in the United States, owned by Viacom Inc. ... The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) is the labor union representing film actors in the United States. ... RKO could stand for: RKO Pictures The R.K.O. - finishing manoever (and initials) of WWE professional wrestler Randy Orton. ... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Stranger on the Third Floor is a 1940 film noir. ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... The Snake Pit is a 1948 film which tells the story of a woman who finds herself in an insane asylum, and cant remember how she got there. ...