Marion Parsonnet

Movies

Run for the Hills
Writer
Fearing nuclear war, an insurance man moves to a cave with his wife and family.
My Forbidden Past
Screenplay
An 1890s New Orleans heiress tries to buy a married doctor's love with her tainted family fortune.
Gilda
Screenplay
A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.
Dangerous Partners
Screenplay
A young couple's accident could make them rich, if they can evade a Nazi spy ring.
I'll Be Seeing You
Writer
Mary Marshall, serving a six year term for accidental manslaughter, is given a Christmas furlough from prison to visit her closest relatives, her uncle and his family in a small Midwestern town. On the train she meets Zach Morgan, a troubled army sergeant on leave for the holidays from a military hospital. Although his physical wounds have healed, he is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder 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 prison to serve the remainder of her sentence.
Cover Girl
Adaptation
A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.
Dangerously They Live
Screenplay
A doctor tries to rescue a young innocent from Nazi agents.
Washington Melodrama
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 in a showgirl's murder.
Blonde Inspiration
Screenplay
A writer of pulp Westerns cranks out more words than his editor and publisher want to pay for.
Gallant Sons
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
Screenplay
A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.
These Glamour Girls
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 rid of her, but she won't leave. Instead, she stays and shows up both him and his classmates' snooty dates.
Miracles for Sale
Screenplay
A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.
Love Is a Headache
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 knowledge.
Beg, Borrow or Steal
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 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.
Live, Love and Learn
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 strange room-mate and the best apartment poverty can buy.
Between Two Women
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 with student nurse, Claire Donahue, and she with him, but, she is married to Tom a physically abusive husband.
The Thirteenth Chair
Screenplay
A phony psychic tries to solve a murder that took place during her seance.