 Dust Be My Destiny , co @-@ written in 1939 by Rossen , is the story of a fugitive from justice who is eventually acquitted with help from an attorney and a journalist , the latter arguing that " a million boys all over the country " were in a similar plight . Warner Bros. then ordered producer Lou Edelman to cut the script , adding that " This is the story of two people – not a group . It is an individual problem – not a national one . " Rossen was one of three writers on the gangster melodrama The Roaring Twenties , released in 1939 . A remake of the 1932 play and film Life Begins was written in 1939 by Rossen and released in 1940 as A Child Is Born . The plot recounted the experiences of six expectant mothers , and there was little scope to modify the original . 
