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

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Biography

Aurania Ellerbeck was born, the 22nd baby, in

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to Thomas Witten Ellerbeck, one of the chief clerks of

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. She went to

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and studied playwriting at Radcliffe. She worked as an actress on stage. She died in

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, aged 68 years. She married Joseph Augustas Rouverol (Rouveyrol) in 1946 and was the mother of actress and author

Jean Rouverol Jean Rouverol (July 8, 1916 – March 24, 2017) was an American author, actress and screenwriter who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios in the 1950s. Life and career Rouverol was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of pl ...

(1916–2017).Jean Rouverol Butler Papers
- Online Archive of California

Select writings

*'' Skidding'' (1928) – play *''It Never Rains'' (1929) – play *''

Dance, Fools, Dance ''Dance, Fools, Dance'' is a 1931 pre-Code Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer drama film starring Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, and Lester Vail in a story about a reporter investigating the murder of a colleague. Story and dialogue were created by Aurania Rouve ...

'' (1931) – film, dialogue *''Growing Pains'' (1933) – play *''All in Marriage'' (1935) – play *''Places Please!'' (1937) – play

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* * American women dramatists and playwrights 1886 births 1955 deaths People from Utah 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights 20th-century American women writers {{US-dramatist-stub