 A child performer on stage and radio, she began her writing career as a junior writer at MGM in 1944 and became a noted Hollywood screenwriter and television writer during the late 1940s and early 1950s.She lived in the UK and Europe from the mid-1950s until 1972.After returning to the United States in 1973, she lived in Massachusetts, New York and Connecticut before returning to Beverly Hills, California, where she currently resides.