Marc Connolly was a successful New York playwright who moved to Hollywood when the studios came a-calling in the mid 1930s. He chose to live at the Garden of Allah to be with fellow writers Robert Benchley & George Kaufman. His most famous screenplays were for “Captain Courageous” 1937, “I Married A Witch” (1942) and “Merton of the Movies” 1947. At the peak of his career he was one of the highest paid screenwriters working in Hollywood.