Born June 27, 1920· Ungheni, Iasi, Romania [now Moldova]
† Died April 21, 1988
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Born in Ungheni, Bessarabia and raised in Brooklyn after joining his father, he excelled in mathematics at Boys High School before studying journalism at Columbia, where he wrote under the pen name I. A. L. Diamond and edited the humor magazine. Abandoning plans for a graduate engineering degree, he entered Hollywood on contracts at Paramount and then Universal, debuting with Murder in the Blue Ro…
