[4] Griffin died at the age of 91 at the Motion Picture and Television Fund Hospital in Woodland Hills, California.
[4] She started in Hollywood at the age of 33 when she began writing for different studios and wrote the story for the film Time out for Romance (1937).
[2] Her first job in Hollywood was working at Universal writing short stories, or treatments, which if accepted would later be turned into a screenplay.
[5] Her screenplays and stories were the basis for many famous directors of the time, such as Douglas Sirk and George Sidney.
[6] In 1994, Newt Gingrich, speaker of the House of Representatives, referenced the film to argue that philanthropists would help people who were affected by government cuts.