About Peter Stone (writer)
Peter Hess Stone was an American screenwriter and playwright. Stone is perhaps best remembered by the general public for the screenplays he wrote or co-wrote in the mid-1960s, Charade (1963), Father Goose (1964), and Mirage (1965). During this time Stone sold his first script to Studio One in 1956, "A Day Before Battle". The New York Times called it "a remarkable demonstration of the use of theatre as an instrument of editorial protest." Stone won an Emmy for his script. Stone's first film script was Charade (1963), which he turned into a novel at the suggestion of his agent Robert Lantz. You can have the best score in the world, but if the book is weak, it won't work.
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