 Babb later met with Horn, and instead of Horn writing a scathing review, they entered into a personal and professional relationship that would last 40 years until his death in 1983.They enjoyed a common-law marriage after 1944, only making it official when Babb's first wife, Toby, consented to a divorce in the late '60s.Together with Jack Jossey, they formed Hygienic Productions (later renamed Hallmark Productions), and she wrote the screenplay for their best-known production, "Mom and Dad".