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Arthur Kober (August 25, 1900 – June 12, 1975) was an American humorist, author, press agent, and screenwriter. He was married to the dramatist Lillian Hellman.
He attended the High School Of Commerce (later known as Louis D. Brandeis High School) for one semester before working at a series of jobs, including as a stock clerk at Gimbels. He then found work as a theatrical press agent for the Shubert family, Jed Harris, Herman Shumlin, and Ruth Draper.
His grandnephew is actor Andrew Kober.
Kober married Lillian Hellman on December 31, 1925. During their marriage, they often lived apart. They divorced in 1932, after Hellman had started a relationship with Dashiell Hammett. He later married Margaret Frohnknecht in 1941, who died in 1951. They had one daughter, Catherine.
He became a screenwriter in Hollywood, working on about 30 films in the 1930s and 1940s, including The Little Foxes (1938), based on Hellman's semi-autobiographical play.
Kober wrote the Broadway play Having Wonderful Time, a comedy set in a Jewish resort in the Catskills. It was staged in 1937 and the following year it was made into a Hollywood film, though the Jewish ethnic humor was sanitized. It was adapted as a stage musical, Wish You Were Here, in 1952.
Kober died of cancer in New York on June 12, 1975, at the age of 74. He was portrayed by David Paymer in the 1999 film, Dash and Lilly.
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Categories: 1900 Births, 1975 Deaths, Jewish American Screenwriters, American Humorists, American Male Screenwriters, Writers From The Bronx, The New Yorker People, 20th-century American Dramatists And Playwrights, Deaths From Cancer In New York, Emigrants From Austria-hungary To The United States, American Male Dramatists And Playwrights, 20th-century American Male Writers, Screenwriters From New York, 20th-century American Screenwriters, 20th-century American Jews
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