[1] During World War II, he served under Pare Lorentz in the Army's Air Transport Command and produced 600 short training films.
[1] After the war, he joined Universal Pictures[3] and his first production was the successful Buck Privates Come Home (1947) starring Abbott and Costello.
'"[6] He signed Stanley Shapiro who wrote several commercially successful comedies for Arthur including The Perfect Furlough (1958), Operation Petticoat (1959), Lover Come Back (1961) and That Touch of Mink (1962).
[7] At that time, 5 of Universal's top 10 highest-grossing films had been produced by Arthur - Operation Petticoat, That Touch of Mink, Come September, Lover Come Back and Shenandoah (1965).
[9] Arthur died in 1986 at the age of seventy-six and was interred in Forest Lawn – Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles.
"[10] Arthur was married to Goldie Appleby, who served as an executive secretary to Irving Thalberg at MGM and to Samuel Goldwyn during World War II.