Motion Picture Producer, Executive, Screenwriter. Wrote the Academy Award-winning script for "Boys Town" (1938) and other screenplays. He produced or supervised over 250 films, including "Crossfire" (1947), "An American In Paris" (1951), and "Lust For Life" (1956). For Broadway stage he wrote Tony Award-winning play "Sunrise At Campobello" (1958) and produced "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" (1960). He was a vocal opponent of McCarthy era Hollywood blacklist, and served as national chairman of B'Nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League from 1963 to 1969.
Motion Picture Producer, Executive, Screenwriter. Wrote the Academy Award-winning script for "Boys Town" (1938) and other screenplays. He produced or supervised over 250 films, including "Crossfire" (1947), "An American In Paris" (1951), and "Lust For Life" (1956). For Broadway stage he wrote Tony Award-winning play "Sunrise At Campobello" (1958) and produced "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" (1960). He was a vocal opponent of McCarthy era Hollywood blacklist, and served as national chairman of B'Nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League from 1963 to 1969.
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