Trivia

Maternal grandfather of actor Cole Hauser.

Was a founding member of the Writers Guild of America.

Started his career as a messenger boy and shipping clerk at Paramount's Long Island studios in New York. He later moved to Hollywood, where he worked as a secretary to film executives Darryl F. Zanuck and Hal B. Wallis at 20th Century-Fox. He worked as an associate producer before turning to screenwriting.

Milton Sperling at age 27 married 19 year old Betty May Warner in 1939. Milton was introduced to Betty May by one of her father Harry M. Warner's brothers, of the film studio Warner Brothers moguls. Betty May, born in 1920 in New York City was the daughter of Harry M. Warner, who founded the Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc. in 1923, in New York City. Harry M. Warner moved his family and his brothers' film company to Los Angeles in 1929 in search of more sun-light and in anticipation for the development of talking-pictures sound novelty engineering.

Educated at the City College of New York.

Served as a captain in the Marine Corps during World War II, teaching documentary film making during combat to a special team assigned to the Pacific Theater.

After Betty May Warner married Milton Sperling (b: 07/06/1912; d: 08/24/1988; age 76) in 1939, Milton Sperling, a screenwriter and later a film producer, became the father of her four children: Cass, Mathew, Susan (d:2006) and Karen Sperling. Betty and Milton, would be wed for 25 years before divorcing in 1964.