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Was married to Dorothy Parker twice. They were a very successful screenwriting team.

Is portrayed by Hal Holbrook in Julia (1977).

He was married for twenty-seven years altogether to Dorothy Parker, who was eleven years his senior. Theirs was an extremely tempestuous relationship - they divorced in 1947 and remarried three years later - and Parker often accused him (sometimes in public) of being a homosexual. He was disliked by most of her New York friends, and seen as a sponger or hanger-on who was able to have a successful Hollywood screenwriting career as a result of being married to a famous woman. He enjoyed Hollywood; she detested it, although she admitted it paid a lot of bills.

Is portrayed by Peter Gallagher in Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)