- In December 1994 he auctioned off his Oscar for Casablanca (1942) for $248,400 to help pay for a granddaughter's graduate studies.
- Was the original writer/adapter of the famed Orson Welles' Halloween "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast. But it was Welles;' idea to change it to a radio reel.
- He was on the blacklist of presumed Communists, but he and his wife were able to continue writing by moving to England and using pseudonyms.
- Earned a law degree from Columbia University before turning to writing plays in the late 1920s. Progressed to writing radio scripts, and then screenplays.
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