(1942-1944) President of the Screen Writers Guild.
(1951-1952) President of the Screen Writers Guild.
She had three children with her first husband, Dwight: daughter, Sheila Benson; and sons, Alan McCall Franklin and Gerald McCall Franklin. She also had a daughter, Mary-David Sheiner, with her second husband, David.
She died in the night of April 3, 1986, from complications of cancer, at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in Woodland Hills (Los Angeles).