Laura Kerr(1902-1991)
- Writer
American screenwriter of the mid-twentieth century. A native of Ohio,
she attended Vassar College before embarking on a career as a literary
agent. She spent a decade with the Brandt & Brandt agency. In 1934, she
accompanied her first husband, writer
Anthony Veiller, to California.
Remarried to scenarist Allen Rivkin, Kerr
began to write film scripts. She and Rivkin wrote a number of films
together, most notably
Ma femme est un grand homme (1947).
Widowed by Rivkin, she was survived by a daughter when she died in
1991, at the age of 88.
