Laura Kerr

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' (qv), to California. Remarried to scenarist 'Allen Rivkin' (qv), Kerr began to write film scripts. She and Rivkin wrote a number of films together, most notably _The Farmer's Daughter (1947)_ (qv). Widowed by Rivkin, she was survived by a daughter when she died in 1991, at the age of 88.::Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>