Among their first, written in collaboration with Arthur Sheekman, was Franklin Street, a comedy loosely based on Philip Goodman's autobiography, which closed at the National Theater in Washington, D.C., in 1940.
Their next play, One-Man Show, the story of the relationship between a father and daughter set in the world of art dealers, opened at Broadway's Ethel Barrymore Theatre in 1945 for a brief run.
Met with little success, the Goetzes revised the ending and brought it back to the stage under the title The Heiress onto Broadway in 1947.
After the success of the play, the Goetzes wrote the screenplay for its adaptation to the screen for a film directed by William Wyler.
The film received good notices and garnered the partnership a Writers Guild of America Award nomination for Best Written Drama.