- Collaborated on eight films of director Martin Ritt.
- Often worked in tandem with his screenwriter wife, Harriet Frank Jr. They were married in 1946, while working together at MGM.
- Could tell time without a clock, within ten minutes of accuracy.
- Attended Long Beach College and graduated from UCLA with a major in English.
- Retired in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles. (February 2008)
- His father was a Jewish immigrant who had fled the Russian pogroms, became a pharmacist and, later, a rabbi. His mother, an emigrant from what is now northern Israel, was a Hebrew teacher.
- Suffered from severe asthma from childhood.
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