Screenwriter who is best known for refusing his Oscar for the film, The Informer because the Screen Writers Guild was on strike at the time.
He attended the University of Michigan.
He co-wrote the script to the 1938 screwball comedy Bringing Up Baby, which is now considered a classic of the era.
He died unmarried.
Marlon Brando also refused to accept an Oscar that he'd won, too, for The Godfather.