She was born Adeline Jaffe to a
Jewish family on April 14, 1895, in
Russia, the daughter of Hannah and Max Jaffe. After her divorce from her husband in 1933, she established her own talent agency named the Ad Schulberg Agency which represented some of the biggest stars at the time including
Marlene Dietrich,
Fredric March, and
Herbert Marshall. In the 1930s, she sold the agency and then moved to
London where she set up another talent agency (she was forbidden to operate in the US due to a non-compete agreement); during World War II, she operated an "underground railroad" that assisted Jewish refugee talent to flee from Nazi-occupied Europe. After the war, she moved back to
New York City and worked as a talent scout for
Columbia Pictures where she discovered
Shelley Winters; she then formed her own literary agency where she represented her son
Budd Schulberg,
Vicki Baum,
Fannie Hurst,
Ruth McKenney,
Roger Price,
Mark Harris, and
Rex Reed. ==Personal life==