Florence Ryerson
Personal Info
Know For
Writing
Gender
Female
Birthday
1892-09-20 (73 years old)
Deathday
1965-06-08
Place of Birth
Glendale, California
Also known As
Florence Willard
Florence Ryerson
Biography
Florence Ryerson (September 20, 1892 – June 8, 1965) was an American playwright, screenwriter and co-author of the script for the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz." Between 1915 and 1927 she published more than 30 short stories and then joined Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1926 to work on silent film scripts. In 1930 and 1933 she and her husband wrote two of the earliest books about teenage girlhood. The books were based on a short story series Ryerson had started in 1925. She continued to write for most of her life, writing plays for Broadway in the 1940s.
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1939
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1938
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1938
as Story
1935
as Screenplay
1931
as Adaptation
1929
as Writer
1934
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1941
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1936
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1936
as Story
1936
as Screenplay
1939
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1933
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1934
as Screenplay
1928
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1930
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1929
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1939
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1931
as Dialogue
1939
as Screenplay
1927
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1927
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1946
as Story
1930
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1929
as Screenplay
1931
as Adaptation
1929
as Screenplay
1928
as Writer
1934
as Additional Dialogue
1996
as Original Film Writer
1927
as Writer
1927
as Story
1936
as Screenplay
1931
as Continuity
1929
as Screenplay
1939
as Additional Writing
1927
as Story
1995
as Original Film Writer
1928
as Writer
1928
as Original Story
1929
as Screenplay
1929
as Story
1930
as Story
2025
as Original Film Writer
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