[3] They divorced before 1927 whereupon his mother married Dr David M Levy, a child psychologist and moved to New York City to pursue a long and notable career in philanthropy.
Deutsch died in Los Angeles of complications relating to pneumonia[7] at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he was a board member and trustee for many years.
His credits include The Magnificent Yankee, a biopic of Oliver Wendell Holmes, which was nominated for two Academy Awards: Best Actor for Louis Calhern and Best Costume Design.
Deutsch claimed that, as an 11-year-old in 1924, he may have been the intended target of the thrill killers Leopold and Loeb, who went on to kidnap and murder his schoolmate, Robert "Bobby" Franks.
Writing in the Chicago Tribune in 1996, he stated that he avoided his brush with death as rather than walking home from school, he was driven to a dentist appointment by his chauffeur: It was no mystery why Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold had singled me out as a prime prospect for their heinous crime.