After working as a journalist and documentary filmmaker for Pathe and CBS-TV, Edward Anhalt teamed with his wife Edna (nee Richards) during World War II to write pulp fiction. After the war, they graduated to writing screenplays for thrillers, initially using the joint pseudonym Andrew Holt. Put under contract by Columbia, the Anhalts scripted "Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back" (1947). After a stint at Twentieth Century Fox during which they earned an Oscar for the screen story to the urban thriller "Panic in the Streets" (1950), the husband and wife team returned to Columbia as writer-producers.
