Arthur Kober (1900-75) was born in what is now Ukraine and emigrated to the USA as a young child. While working as a theatrical agent, he began contributing humorous writing to The New Yorker in 1926, frequently drawing on his Jewish upbringing in the Bronx.
In 1931, Kober was hired by Paramount to adapt a Goodrich-Hackett Up Pops the Devil and, over the next eighteen years, worked on more than thirty screenplays.
Films co-written by Kober included Meet the Baron (1933), The Mad Miss Manton (1938) and The Little Foxes (1941). Later in life, he wrote episodes for several television series.
Kober co-authored the screenplay for MGM’s Hollywood Party.
Arthur Kober is probably best known today as the husband of playwright Lillian Hellman when she began her relationship with Dashiell Hammett.
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