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Following the success of The Children's Hour, Hellman returned to Hollywood as a screenwriter for Goldwyn Pictures at $ 2500 a week.

She first collaborated on a screenplay for The Dark Angel, an earlier play and silent film.

Following that film's successful release in 1935, Goldwyn purchased the rights to The Children's Hour for $ 35, 000 while it still was running on Broadway.

Hellman rewrote the play to conform to the standards of the Motion Picture Production Code, under which any mention of lesbianism was impossible.

Instead, one schoolteacher is accused of having sex with the other's fiancé.

It appeared in 1936 under the title, These Three.

She next wrote the screenplay for Dead End, which featured the first appearance of the Dead End Kids and premiered in 1937.