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 Arthur St. Claire, early 1920s | |
| Born | Arthur Frederic Evens (1899-07-20)20 July 1899 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | 18 October 1950(1950-10-18) (aged 51) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | screenwriter |
| Spouse(s) | Helen Daniels, 1927 Iris Ashton Badger, 1928– |
Arthur Frederic St. Claire Evens (July 20, 1899 – October 18, 1950) was a screenwriter who wrote the script for theFrank Buck adventure thrillerTiger Fangs.
Arthur Frederic St. Claire Evens was the only child of Edward and Louise Evens. On the 1920US census, Edward Evens listed his occupation as investigator for the US Government. Arthur Evens served in theUS Army overseas duringWorld War I from January 1918 to March 1919.[citation needed]
In June 1927, Evens's wife of 3 months, 22-year-old actress Helen St. Claire, died in her bathroom after a marital spat by swallowing a bottle of antiseptic lotion.[1] Arthur told the police of a lovers' quarrel and declared that their lives had been unhappy due to parental enmity (in particular, on the part of his wife's father, Albert T. Daniels). Helen was buried in New York.[2] In February 1928, Helen's parents supplied new information to police about Helen's death, but in April, acoroner's jury ruled that Helen ended her own life. Arthur thereupon married Iris Ashton Badger, a 29-year-old actress with whom he had been living for months. At the same time, he was convicted ofvagrancy and sentenced to 60 days in jail.[3][4][5]
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Evens, who used the name Arthur St. Claire, wrote scenarios in Hollywood from the 1920s until the late 1940s. He recycled some of the events of his wife's suicide in fictional form in his screenplay,Delinquent Daughters (1944), a story about a town's shock when a high school girl commits suicide.
Many of St. Claire’s screenplays wereB-movies forProducers Releasing Corporation. He is best remembered today for writingTiger Fangs, a candidate for the national film registry.[6][7]
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