Ernest Lehman
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Raised on Long Island in a Jewish family and educated at City College of New York, he later trained at the New England Radio Institute before serving as a radio operator during World II. After the war he entered freelance writing, moved to publicity copy, and turned his novelette Sweet Smell of Success into a film script that launched a contract with Paramount, where his debut Executive Suite (195…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources