Worked as assistant stage director to Robert Artkins at the Old Vic Theatre in London for one year

Wrote plays in New York including "The One Man", "Storm Song", "Actute Triangle"

Debut as story writer, "Matinee Ladies"

Signed three-year writing contract with Paramount

Wrote first screenplay, "If I Had a Millon"

Screenplay for "Whom the Gods Destroy" for Columbia led to studio contract

Producing debut, "She Married an Artist"

Began supervising Columbia's production; later became vice president and assistant production chief

Cited for contempt of Congress by House Committee on Un-American Activities for refusing to co-operate; fined $150 and given one-year suspended sentence

Moved to Cannes, France

Hired by 20th Century Fox as a writer and producer in Europe during the early 1960s