She was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Screenplay for the comedy Heaven Can Wait (which she co-wrote with a film's star Warren Beatty) and for her adaptation of Joe Klein's book Primary Colors.

She besides wrote & directed a film Ishtar in 1987. Largely shot in location in the Middle East, a production was beset by internal difficulties, & advance publicity was and then terrible that a picture never had off a ground, becoming one of the large cinematic failures of its day.

Could has as well written stage plays, including Adaptation, Non Enough Rope, Mr. Gogol & Mr. Preen, a a single-work play Hot Line, and After the Night and the Music. She besides directed a Off-Broadway production of Terrence McNally's Adaptation/Next.

She was natural inside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and as a child she from time to time performed by having her father, Jack Berlin, on stage; he was the Yiddish theatrical actor. At inside the area of xvi she married (& late divorced) & gave birth to her girl, actress Jeannie Berlin, in 1949 at around a age of Xvii in case her birth season really is 1932.