Arthur St. Claire

• Occupation: Writer
• Active: '40s
• Major Genres: Western, Crime
• Career Highlights: Rimfire, Philo Vance's Gamble, Gunman's Code
• First Major Screen Credit: Side Street (1929)

Biography

American screenwriter Arthur Saint Claire spent his entire career on Hollywood's Poverty Row. Saint Claire's first credit was the exploitive (but essentially harmless) 1940 quickie Secrets of a Model. He then became a staffer at PRC Pictures, collaborating on such resistible efforts as Miss V From Moscow (1943) and Man of Courage (1943). Arthur Saint Claire's final film was the non-uninteresting Erich von Stroheim vehicle Mask of Dijon (PRC, 1946). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide