Lees and Rinaldo continued to work on comedy shorts including, A Night At The Movies, starring Robert Benchley, and Penny Wisdom.
[1] After completing the comedy short An Hour For Lunch, in 1939, Lees and Rinaldo moved on to feature-length films with the 1940 drama, Street Of Memories.
In 1952, an unused treatment they wrote for a service comedy at Paramount around 1943 was later adapted as Jumping Jacks for another comic duo, Martin and Lewis.
[2] In the early 1950s, Lees' career was virtually destroyed when he was put on the Hollywood blacklist by movie studio bosses during the McCarthy Era for alleged Communist activities.
[4] After retiring from screenwriting in 1983 and becoming associated with sexologist Helen Colton, who would become his girlfriend to the end of his life, he became active in atheist and humanist circles, sometimes speaking at events.
[8] The following day, Graff caught the attention of security guards at the gates of Paramount Pictures when he began behaving erratically; talking to himself and yelling at passing cars.
[9] One security guard identified Graff from a picture that was shown on a televised news conference about the double murders, and phoned police.