Biography

Edward entered the film industry as a publicity director for Columbia Pictures. In addition to writing films, Edward also wrote fourteen plays and was often a guest at Louis B. Mayer's lunch table at the MGM Commissary. In 1953 he was blacklisted by the Hollywood studios after being identified as a Communist Party member by choreographer Jerome Robbins.

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Born in New York City, Chodorov counted among his friends the future humorist S.J. Perlman and the future playwright, director, and screenwriter Moss Hart. When Hart became the secretary of a theatrical agency, he was able to get Chodorov a job as stage manager for a production of the play "Abie's Irish Rose." With theatrical experience under his belt, he moved to Los Angeles and joined the staff of the publicity department of Columbia Pictures. He then utilized his movie experience in co-writing a Hollywood satire titled "Wonder Boy," which was produced on Broadway by the noted producer Jed Harris in 1931. Chodorov spent the next two decades alternating his time between writing for the theatre and for movies. He was blacklisted in 1953 when choreographer named him as someone who was a Communist. His 1953 play "Oh Men! Oh Women!" was a hit on Broadway, but, because of his blacklisting, he was not named in the credits when it was filmed in 1957. The only reference to the play in the film's credits was that it was "based on a play produced by Cheryl Crawford." Unlike fellow blacklisted writers who were able to return to screenwriting in the 1960s when the blacklist had ended, Chodorov never wrote another screenplay. He did continue to write for the theatre, but not on Broadway. His wife Rosemary, his brother Jerome, who was also a playwright and screenwriter and was also named by Jerome Robbins and blacklisted, and his two children survived him when he died in in the city of his birth in 1988.

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