[3] Among his screenplays was the script for a "potboiler melodrama" called Tomorrow We Live, a 1942 Poverty Row film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer.
He then bought Home Foundation Savings of Palo Alto and in 1959 created Lytton Financial Corporation, with two branches in Los Angeles.
[4] Lytton's company thrived on the booming California housing market, which he helped to finance, and his success was largely based on his showmanship.
[9] In his testimony, Lytton named Hollywood figures he said had attended Communist Party meetings, among them John Howard Lawson and Stanley Prager.
[11] A lavish political contributor, Lytton served as Finance Chairman of the California Democratic Party from 1958 to 1962, during the first administration of Governor Pat Brown, and was a major donor to the presidential campaign of President John F.
[citation needed] A public park he originally built for art displays near one of his office buildings in the city of Palo Alto still bears his name.