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Screenwriter and playwright
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Female
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Birth:
3 October 1905(San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA)
Death:
7 June 1981(San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, USA)
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Education:
Yale University
University of California, Berkeley
The details
Biography
Introduction
Elaine Ryan was an American screenwriter and playwright known for writing Hollywood films in the 1930s and 1940s, as well as television in the 1950s.
Biography
Elaine Ryan was born in San Francisco to Daniel Ryan (a prominent attorney) and Josephine Cooney (a teacher). She attended the University of California Berkeley and Yale University, where she was one of few female graduates of an esteemed playwriting program. She married William Wallace, a rancher, in 1931.
Selected filmography
- Babes on Broadway (1941)
- A Very Young Lady (1941)
- Second Chorus (1940)
- Listen, Darling (1938)
- Mr. Dodd Takes the Air (1937)