Biography

Born to Charles Bernard Froomess and Elizabeth Babin Froomess in Canada in 1901, he grew up in Rochester, New York, with ten siblings. His sister, Camille Froomess, became Camille or Toni Mannix, a Ziegfield Follies showgirl in the 1920's who immigrated to Hollywood in the early 1930s. She became the companion and then wife of MGM executive, 'Eddie Mannix', in 1951.

He also began his film career as a writer of comedy shorts around the same time as his sister's in 1936.

Using his birth name, Emanuel Froomess, he is listed in a passenger list for the S.S. George Washington, in a trip from England to New York in 1939 indicating his occupation as a writer.

He wrote several shorts throughout his career involving the Joe Palooka boxing character as well as a film in 1951 for the boxers, Maxie Rosenbloom and Max Baer.

He was naturalized as a U.S. Citizen in 1957.
- IMDb mini biography by: S. Enger

Lou Costello was once asked, with Forman as his only writer, how was he going to get to air, before Christmas, 104 half hour scripts for the The Abbott and Costello Show (1952)? "With whips", was his reply.

Writer on the popular CBS radio show, Stage Door Canteen (1942-1945).