Career Highlights: The Shrike, Come Back, Little Sheba, The File on Thelma Jordon
First Major Screen Credit: Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
Biography
Author, screenwriter and playwright Ketti Frings won a Pulitzer Prize in 1958 for her play Look Homeward Angel. Born Katherine Hartley, Frings got her start writing advertising copy then became a journalist and a movie stars' ghostwriter (using the name Anita Kilore) in fan magazines. Some of her better-known screenplays include File on Thelma Jordon (1950) Come Back Little Sheba (1953). ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide