Aurania Rouverol

Aurania Rouverol
Aurania Rouverol
Born	Aurania Ellerbeck; August 13, 1886; Utah
Died	June 23, 1955 (aged 68); Palo Alto, California
Occupation	Playwright
Spouse	Joseph Augustas Rouverol
Children	Jean Rouverol

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,^[1] who were turned into a popular series of sixteen movies from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Biography

Aurania Ellerbeck was born, the 22nd baby,^[2] in Utah to Thomas Witten Ellerbeck, one of the chief clerks of Brigham Young.^[3] She went to Stanford University^[4]^[5]^[6] and studied playwriting at Radcliffe. She worked as an actress on stage.^[7]

She died in Palo Alto, California, aged 68 years.^[8]

She married Joseph Augustas Rouverol (Rouveyrol^[9]) in 1946^[10] and was the mother of actress and author Jean Rouverol (1916–2017).^[11]

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

References

^ Crowther, Bosley (April 10, 1942). "The Courtship of Andy Hardy (1942) THE SCREEN IN REVIEW; ' The Courtship of Andy Hardy,' a Comedy-Drama Starring Mickey Rooney at Capitol -New Film Opens at the Palace". The New York Times.
^ McGilligan, Patrick; Buhle, Paul (2012). Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist. University of Minnesota Press. pp. 155–176. ISBN 978-0-8166-8037-5. Women from Utah had voted for quite a while and my mother, Aurania Ellerbeck, was a Republican feminist. She had been a change-of-life baby, the youngest of twenty-two children, only eight of whom were born to her mother. My grandfather was an apostate Mormon. After two years of trying to figure out a name for her, someone noticed that a Cunard liner named the 'Aurania' had docked in San Pedro, and they all thought, "What a nice name!" My mother went to Radcliffe to study playwriting, and while she was there in...
^ Rouverol (Ellerbeck), Aurania Western Name Authority File
^ Stanford Daily, Jan 7, 1932, p. 1
^ The Stanford English Club Year Book. 1909. The Stanford English Club takes pleasure in presenting the first of a proposed series of Year Books, initiated with the hope that it may conduce to the encouragement of original literary work at Stanford University.....'Little Kingdom' by Aurania Ellerbeck
^ "Fight songs that are out of this world". The Stanford Daily. 23 November 2019. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
^ Aurania Ellerbeck in Little Women production in New York 1913 ... www.newspapers.com › ... › 1913 › Apr › 14 › Page 25 (A Scene in "Little Women" Joseph EAGLE ...)
^ "MRS. ROUVEROL, 69, AUTHOR, ACTRESS: Playwright, Creator of Andy Hardy Series, Dies on Coast -- Meg in 'Little Women'". New York Times. June 25, 1955. p. 15.
^ Catalog of Copyright Entries 1933 Dramatic Compositions Motion Pictures Vol 6 Pt 1 For the Year 1933. U.S. Govt. Print. Off. 1933. Aurania Ellerbeck Rouveyrol, Palo Alto, Calif.
^ "Mrs. Aurania Rouverol Wed". New York Times. Feb 17, 1946. p. 36.
^ Jean Rouverol Butler Papers - Online Archive of California

External links

Aurania Rouverol at IMDb
Aurania Rouverol at the Internet Broadway Database

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[NYT-1] Crowther, Bosley (April 10, 1942). "The Courtship of Andy Hardy (1942) THE SCREEN IN REVIEW; ' The Courtship of Andy Hardy,' a Comedy-Drama Starring Mickey Rooney at Capitol -New Film Opens at the Palace". The New York Times.

[2] McGilligan, Patrick; Buhle, Paul (2012). Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist. University of Minnesota Press. pp. 155–176. ISBN 978-0-8166-8037-5. Women from Utah had voted for quite a while and my mother, Aurania Ellerbeck, was a Republican feminist. She had been a change-of-life baby, the youngest of twenty-two children, only eight of whom were born to her mother. My grandfather was an apostate Mormon. After two years of trying to figure out a name for her, someone noticed that a Cunard liner named the 'Aurania' had docked in San Pedro, and they all thought, "What a nice name!" My mother went to Radcliffe to study playwriting, and while she was there in...

[3] Rouverol (Ellerbeck), Aurania Western Name Authority File

[4] Stanford Daily, Jan 7, 1932, p. 1

[5] The Stanford English Club Year Book. 1909. The Stanford English Club takes pleasure in presenting the first of a proposed series of Year Books, initiated with the hope that it may conduce to the encouragement of original literary work at Stanford University.....'Little Kingdom' by Aurania Ellerbeck

[6] "Fight songs that are out of this world". The Stanford Daily. 23 November 2019. Retrieved 6 April 2021.

[7] Aurania Ellerbeck in Little Women production in New York 1913 ... www.newspapers.com › ... › 1913 › Apr › 14 › Page 25 (A Scene in "Little Women" Joseph EAGLE ...)

[8] "MRS. ROUVEROL, 69, AUTHOR, ACTRESS: Playwright, Creator of Andy Hardy Series, Dies on Coast -- Meg in 'Little Women'". New York Times. June 25, 1955. p. 15.

[9] Catalog of Copyright Entries 1933 Dramatic Compositions Motion Pictures Vol 6 Pt 1 For the Year 1933. U.S. Govt. Print. Off. 1933. Aurania Ellerbeck Rouveyrol, Palo Alto, Calif.

[10] "Mrs. Aurania Rouverol Wed". New York Times. Feb 17, 1946. p. 36.

[11] Jean Rouverol Butler Papers - Online Archive of California

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Aurania Rouverol
Born	Aurania Ellerbeck August 13, 1886 Utah
Died	June 23, 1955(1955-06-23) (aged 68) Palo Alto, California
Occupation	Playwright
Spouse	Joseph Augustas Rouverol
Children	Jean Rouverol