He wrote the films The Big Broadcast of 1938, Artists and Models Abroad, There's That Woman Again, Good Girls Go to Paris, Slightly Honorable, The Doctor Takes a Wife, No, No, Nanette, This Thing Called Love, Nothing but the Truth, Rings on Her Fingers, Springtime in the Rockies, Sweet Rosie O'Grady, Here Come the Waves, The Unseen, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Good Sam, A Millionaire for Christy, Androcles and the Lion, Never Wave at a WAC, The Vagabond King and The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz.
[1] He got a job in his 20s as a writer for Phil Baker's radio show and joined Paramount Pictures in 1937.
[2] He also had three books published: Tour D'Amour, Larks in a Casserole and The Ghosts in Emily's Trunk.
[1] After his divorce from Mabel Albertson in 1950 he married Bernadine Simpson from Waupaca, Wisconsin who appeared in Never Wave at a WAC.
[3] After a stroke in 1985, he moved into the Motion Picture & Television Fund Hospital in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California.