Trivia

Served as a captain in the US Army during World One. At the end of the war he was made a major in the Army Reserve.

Disdained Hollywood, enjoyed turning down large offers from Samuel Goldwyn.

Brother-in-law, actor Walter Hampden, appeared in many of his plays.

Brother of prominent New York physician, Charles H. Goodrich.

Internationally known playwright and author.

Remembered for the play "Caponsacchi", an adaptation of Robert Browning's poem "The Ring and the Book", that he wrote in collaboration with Rose A. Palmer.

Had also been manager of his father's hardware factory, a concert and choir singer, a foreign correspondent for a US magazine and a magazine editor.

Graduated at the head of his class at Wesleyan University.