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Florence Ryerson (1892–1965)

Autor(a) de The Wizard of Oz [1939 film]

44+ Works 1,489 Membros 11 Críticas

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Includes the name: Florence Ryerson

Obras por Florence Ryerson

The Wizard of Oz [1939 film] (1939) — Screenplay — 1,348 exemplares
The Wizard of Oz: The Screenplay (1989) — Autor — 57 exemplares
Strange Bedfellows (1948) 11 exemplares
Harriet, a play in three acts (1943) 5 exemplares
Ladies Alone (1937) 5 exemplares
The Casino Murder Case [1935 film] (1935) — Screenwriter — 3 exemplares
Through the Night (1940) 3 exemplares
Mild Oats 2 exemplares

Associated Works

O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1930 (1930) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1892-09-20
Data de falecimento
1965-06-08
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Glendale, California, USA
Local de falecimento
Mexico City, Mexico
Locais de residência
Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, USA
Shadow Ranch, West Hills, California, USA
Educação
Pasadena High School
Ocupações
screenwriter
playwright
novelist
short story writer
Relações
Clements, Colin (husband, co-author)
Willard, Charles Dwight (father)
Woolf, Edgar Allan (co-author)
Langley, Noel (co-author)

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Florence Ryerson, née Willard, was born in Glendale, California. Her father Charles Dwight Willard was a well-known journalist, author, and political reformer. While still a student at Pasadena High School, she wrote a play that was later produced by the Los Angeles Children's Theatre. She also wrote numerous short stories that appeared in national publications such as The American Magazine, Ladies Home Journal, and Metropolitan. She married Harold Swayne Ryerson, with whom she had a son, and retained his surname after they divorced. In 1926, she was hired by Paramount Pictures to work on silent film scripts. After sound films came in, she wrote the screenplays for the Fu Manchu and Philo Vance series. She co-authored the screenplay for The Wizard of Oz in 1939 with her frequent collaborators Edgar Allan Woolf and Noel Langley. In 1928, she married Colin Clements, also writer, and they soon began writing together. They wrote plays for Broadway such as Glamour Preferred (1941), Harriet (1943), and Strange Bedfellows (1948); and novels such as Fear of Fear (1931), Diana Laughs (1932), and The Borgia Blade (1937). In the 1930s, the couple bought a 19th-century ranch near Canoga Park in the San Fernando Valley and renamed it Shadow Ranch. They restored and lived on the property for several years before selling it in 1948. Shadow Ranch has since become one of the most popular historic-cultural monuments in Los Angeles and a city park. After Clements' death, Florence retired to Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, where she continued to write plays, including some for the local high school.

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I grew up watching this movie. It was the most magical thing I had ever seen or imagined. I waited for it to air once a year.
 
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Eurekas | 10 outras críticas | Aug 23, 2021 |
Dorothy Gale is swept away from her home in Kansas to the magical Land of Oz in a tornado and embarks on a quest with her new friends to see the Wizard who can help her return home and help her friends as well.
Rated G however young children are often scared by witches and flying monkeys
 
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SITAG_Family | 10 outras críticas | Jul 13, 2021 |
Media kit, includes original script, dvd of movie, lobby cards
 
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StPaulMasonicLibrary | 10 outras críticas | Apr 1, 2019 |
Like millions of others, I watched this every year growing up--and it was something I looked forward to for weeks. I've never read the Oz books--my daughter, who devours everything, wasn't impressed by them--but this film can stand alone as a singular magical moment. Actually, many magical moments, all of which are still magical 80 years later.
 
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datrappert | 10 outras críticas | Mar 5, 2019 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
44
Also by
2
Membros
1,489
Popularidade
#17,248
Avaliação
½ 4.3
Críticas
11
ISBN
52
Línguas
2

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