Patricia Owens
Who was the spouse of Sy Bartlett from 1956 to 1958?
Sy Bartlett Sidney Sy Bartlett ( born Sacha Baraniev ; July 10 , 1900 – May 29 , 1978 ) was an American author and screenwriter/producer of Hollywood films . Early life . Sy Bartlett was born on July 10 , 1900 in the Black Sea seaport of Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine . His parents immigrated to the United States in 1904 , settling in Chicago . Bartlett attended Northwestern University and was trained at the Medill School of Journalism . He worked as a newspaper reporter before moving to Hollywood to become a screenwriter . His first credited work was for RKO Studios in 1933 and he wrote 28 screenplays from 1933 to 1969 . In the 1950s , he became interested in producing films , and with film star Gregory Peck founded Melville Productions in 1956 . Bartlett enjoyed being a Hollywood socialite in the 1930s and was well known for the Sunday barbecues he frequently hosted . He was sometimes connected by tabloids to scandals on occasion , and married three times , each time to Hollywood actresses – Alice White , Ellen Drew , and Patricia Owens . Of Jewish descent , Bartlett was strongly anti-Nazi , once striking an employee of the German consulate in the face during an argument in a nightclub . Military service . Bartlett joined the United States Army during World War II as a captain and was assigned to the Army Pictorial Service . However he was not interested in making training films and used connections to meet Beirne Lay , Jr. , who was on the staff of Army Air Forces Brig . Gen . Ira Eaker . Lay had a background in both journalism and Hollywood and arranged for Bartlett to meet Maj . Gen . Carl Spaatz , and Bartlett became Spaatzs aide-de-camp . With the establishment of the Eighth Air Force in England , Bartlett was transferred there and joined the staff of the Eighths Bomber Command as an intelligence assistant . There he came into daily contact with the inner workings of Air Force commanders in England , including Brig . Gen . Frank A . Armstrong , and was a close observer of the development of the Eighth into a powerful combat force . In November 1944 , Major Bartlett became the wing intelligence officer for the B-29 315th Bomb Wing under Armstrong and served with it on Guam . Return to Hollywood and writing . Following World War II , Bartlett returned to Hollywood and joined 20th Century Fox as a writer . In 1946 , he began a collaboration with Beirne Lay which resulted in the 1948 publication of the novel Twelve OClock High ( Harper & Brothers ) , and in December 1949 , the release of the film based on the same story ( work on production began a year before publication ) . Bartlett died in Hollywood on May 29 , 1978 , aged 77 , from cancer . Filmography ( screenwriter ) . - Che ! ( 1969 ) – also producer - In Enemy Country ( 1968 ) - A Gathering of Eagles ( 1963 ) -- also producer - Cape Fear ( 1962 ) --also producer - The Outsider ( 1961 ) – also producer - Beloved Infidel ( 1959 ) - Pork Chop Hill ( 1959 ) -- also producer - The Big Country ( 1958 ) - Suspicion ( TV series ; episode : Doomsday ) ( 1957 ) - The Last Command ( 1955 ) - That Lady ( 1955 ) -- also producer - The Red Beret ( 1953 ) - Twelve OClock High ( 1949 ) - Down to the Sea in Ships ( 1949 ) - 13 Rue Madeleine ( 1947 ) - The Princess and the Pirate ( 1944 ) - Two Yanks in Trinidad ( 1942 ) - Bullet Scars ( 1942 ) - Road to Zanzibar ( 1941 ) - Sandy Gets Her Man ( 1940 ) - The Amazing Mr . Williams ( 1939 ) - Cocoanut Grove ( 1938 ) - Sergeant Murphy ( 1938 ) - Danger Patrol ( 1937 ) - The Man Who Cried Wolf ( 1937 ) - Under Your Spell ( 1936 ) - Boulder Dam ( 1936 ) - The Murder of Dr . Harrigan ( 1936 ) - Going Highbrow ( 1935 ) - Kansas City Princess ( 1934 ) - The Big Brain ( 1933 ) References . - Duffin , Alan T. , and Matheis , Paul . The 12 OClock High Logbook ( 2005 ) , External links . - Portrait of screenwriter Sy Bartlett , Los Angeles , California , circa 1939 . Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive ( Collection 1429 ) . UCLA Library Special Collections , Charles E . Young Research Library , University of California , Los Angeles .