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American writer
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Female
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Birth:
13 August 1886(Utah, USA)
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23 June 1955(Palo Alto, Santa Clara County, California, USA)
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The details
Biography
Introduction
Aurania Rouverol (née Ellerbeck; August 13, 1886 – June 23, 1955) was an American writer best known for her play Skidding, in which she created Andy Hardy and his family, who were turned into a popular series of sixteen movies from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Biography
Aurania Ellerbeck was born in Utah to Thomas Witten Ellerbeck, one of the chief clerks of Brigham Young. She went to Stanford University and studied playwriting at 47 Workshop. She worked as an actor on stage.
She died in Palo Alto, California, aged 68 years.
She married Joseph Augustas Rouverol in 1946 and was the mother of Jean Rouverol.
Select writings
- Skidding (1928) – play
- It Never Rains (1929) – play
- Dance, Fools, Dance (1931) – film, dialogue
- Growing Pains (1933) – play
- All in Marriage (1935) – play
- Places Please! (1937) – play