[3] When she took a hiatus from her career in 1943, she and her two sons went to the Japanese internment camp at Heart Mountain Relocation Center, to join her husband who worked there.
[4] In the 1930s, Frankel wrote radio shows such as Cavalcade of America, Counterspy, and The Thin Man.
[4] She wrote the Broadway plays Don't Throw Glass Houses in 1938 and Love Me Long in 1949.
[5][6] In her 1943 play Journey for an Unknown Soldier, she wrote about the racism against Japanese people at the time and how white Americans should accept them.
Frankel later wrote for the television shows General Hospital, Search for Tomorrow, and All My Children.