Film Producer and Screenwriter. Born in Chicago, Illinois to parents of Dutch ancestry, her mother was an editor and writer for American silent film producer, director, and screenwriter Thomas H. Ince. As a child she appeared in several silent films and as she became older, she worked her way up in the film industry becoming a script writer, film editor, script reader, casting director and agent. Her very first screenplay credit was for Paramount Pictures' "The Pursuit of Happiness" (1934) and wrote screenplays throughout the 1930s for that studio until 1943. She was then hired by Columbia Pictures' Harry Cohn to do the screenplay of "Cover Girl" (1944), a massive Technicolor blockbuster for Columbia's Rita Hayworth. She not only was successful at fashioning a from the discarded drafts but also gained the confidence of Rita Hayworth, becoming a friend and a mediator between her and the studio, even going as far to supervise Rita's costumes and rewriting her own screenplay for Hayworth's new persona. Impressed with the results, Cohn made her an associate and later a full producer at the studio. At that time she was only one of three female producers in Hollywood. Some of her work was often uncredited, such as salvaging Orson Welles vehicle for his wife Rita Hayworth, in the expensive "The Lady from Shanghai." Probably her most famous production was the film "Gilda" (1946) that she co-wrote and supervised. Following "The Guilt of Janet Ames" (1947, with Rosalind Russell and Melvyn Douglas), she left Columbia to spend time with her family. Cohn rewarded her with a job of inspecting the Latin American market where she visited 14 Central and South American countries and during this visit, she announced she would produce films based on the Spanish writer Dr Gines de La Torre's "Christ the Man" and "Tolvanera" in 1949 that never came to fruition. She then returned to Columbia to work on Rita Hayworth's comeback film "Affair in Trinidad" (1952, with Glenn Ford). Her other works include "Poppy" (1936), "Easy to Take" (1936), "Too Many Parents" (1936), "St. Louis Blues" (1939), "Honeymoon in Bali" (1939), "Virginia" (1941), "The Crystal Ball" (1943), "Young and Willing" (1943), "Together Again" (1944), "She Wouldn't Say Yes" (1945), and "Here Comes the Groom" (1951). She died in Los Angeles, California at the age of 68.