Arthur Frederic St. Claire Evens (born July 20, 1899, New York, died October 18, 1950, Los Angeles, age 51) was a screenwriter who wrote the script for the Frank Buck

Frank Buck (animal collector)

Frank Howard Buck was a hunter and "collector of wild animals," as well as a movie actor, director, writer and producer...

 adventure thriller Tiger Fangs

Tiger Fangs

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Early years

Arthur Frederic St. Claire Evens was the only child of Edward and Louise Evens. On the 1920 US census Edward Evens listed his occupation as investigator for the US Government.

Wife's Suicide

Arthur Evens was in the headlines, June 1927, when his wife of 3 months, Helen St. Claire, an actress, age 22, died in her bathroom, 2235 N. Cahuenga Boulevard, after a marital spat by swallowing a bottle of antiseptic lotion. 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 the wife’s father, Albert T. Daniels). Helen was buried in New York. In February 1928, Helen's parents supplied new information to police about Helen's death, but in April, a coroner'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 of vagrancy and sentenced to 60 days in jail.

Screenplays

Arthur 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

Delinquent Daughters

Delinquent Daughters, or Accent on Crime is a 1944 exploitation film. Directed by Albert Herman and starring June Carlson, the film was about a police investigation into the suicide death of a high school girl, and the hard-partying teenagers at a party prior to the incident.-References:* IMDb: .*...

(1944), the story of how a town is shocked when a high school girl commits suicide.

Many of St. Claire’s screenplays were B-movies for Producers Releasing Corporation

Producers Releasing Corporation

Producers Releasing Corporation was one of the more lower-end Hollywood film studios on Poverty Row from the late '30s to the mid-'40s. PRC, as it was commonly known, made low-budget B-movies for the lower-half of a double bill. A few of its films have gained a respectable reputation over the...

. He is best remembered today for writing Tiger Fangs

Tiger Fangs

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, a candidate for the national film registry.

External links

• Arthur St. Claire on the Internet Movie Database
• video: Frank Buck in Tiger Fangs
• Iris Ashton on the Internet Movie Database.