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- Birth nameLaura Kerr Hornickel
- 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 The Farmer's Daughter (1947). Widowed by Rivkin, she was survived by a daughter when she died in 1991, at the age of 88.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
- SpousesAnthony Veiller(December 31, 1933 - December 1945) (1 child)Allen Rivkin(? - February 17, 1990) (his death)
- Mother, with Anthony Veiller, of a daughter, Caroline Margaret Veiller.
- Ex-daughter-in-law of Bayard Veiller and Margaret Wycherly.
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