Born to George Hornickel and Cara Kerr in Dillonvale, Ohio, in 1902, Laura was an only child.
She attended Vassar College and entered a career as a literary agent.
[2][3] After her first marriage to writer-producer Anthony Veiller (with whom she had a daughter) came to an end, she began writing screenplays.
[4] She and her second husband, Allen Rivkin, wrote a number of scripts together, as well as a book about the film industry called Hello, Hollywood!
[1] She died on May 1, 1991, in Woodland Hills, California, after suffering a stroke.