Film Career
Arthur Sheekman continued to work with the Marx Brothers on such projects as Horse Feathers (in which he has a cameo appearance as a sports writer in the press box), Duck Soup in 1933 and the Groucho-Chico radio series known as Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel (where he worked as script writer) as well as being the host for many of Groucho's books such as Beds and Many Happy Returns.
Later on, while working for the Eddie Cantor musical Roman Scandals in 1933, Sheekman met his future bride actress Gloria Stuart (he would be Gloria's second husband after Blair Gordon Newell who divorced her in 1934). Gloria Stuart had retired from films in the early 1940s, but made a comeback appearing in such movies as My Favorite Year -- where she danced with Peter O'Toole -- and Titanic, where she received an Academy Award nomination for her portrayal of 100-year-old Rose.
Later works he help to script write included Danny Kaye's Wonder Man (1945), Bing Crosby's Welcome Stranger (1947) and Mr. Music (1950), Joe E. Brown's The Gladiator (1938) as well as Daniel Mann's Ada (1961).
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