Aurania 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.

Aurania Rouverol
BornAurania Ellerbeck
August 13, 1886
Utah
DiedJune 23, 1955(1955-06-23) (aged 68)
Palo Alto, California
OccupationPlaywright
SpouseJoseph Augustas Rouverol
ChildrenJean Rouverol

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
  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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