Arthur Kober (August 25, 1900 – June 12, 1975) was an American humorist, author, press agent, and screenwriter.
Kober was born into a Jewish family in Brody, Galicia, in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire (now part of western Ukraine).
He then found work as a theatrical press agent for the Shubert brothers, Jed Harris, Herman Shumlin, and Ruth Draper.
[4] He became a screenwriter in Hollywood, working on about 30 films in the 1930s and 1940s, including The Little Foxes (1938), based on Hellman's semi-autobiographical play.
[1] Kober wrote the Broadway play Having Wonderful Time, a comedy set in a Jewish resort in the Catskills.