---
name: "Kay Van Riper"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kay-van-riper"
fi1m_id: "kay-van-riper"
imdb_id: "nm0887858"
tmdb_id: 959728
wikidata_id: "Q60494187"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "9 November 1907"
died: "31 December 1948"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T02:58:28.948762+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Kay Van Riper

## Identity

Kay Van Riper

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/kay-van-riper
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** kay-van-riper
- **IMDb ID:** nm0887858
- **TMDB ID:** 959728
- **Wikidata ID:** Q60494187
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Van_Riper, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60494187, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0887858/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/959728

Writer. Born 9 November 1907 in Minnesota, US. Died 31 December 1948.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 9 November 1907, Minnesota, US
- **Died:** 31 December 1948
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Van_Riper, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60494187, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0887858/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/959728

## Biography

Kay Van Riper was an American screenwriter active in the late 1930s and 1940s. She began her career writing for and performing in radio programmes in the early 1930s before joining Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a scenarist in 1937.

Her film credits include several entries in the Andy Hardy series, such as *You're Only Young Once* (1937), *Judge Hardy's Children* (1938) and *Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever* (1939). She co-wrote the screenplay for the musical *Babes in Arms* (1939) and contributed to *Lady Be Good* (1941). She also provided additional dialogue for *The Harvey Girls* (1946).

Van Riper died on 31 December 1948 in Glendale, California.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, wikimili.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Babes in Arms* (1939), Fi1m 66, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/babes-in-arms.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Harvey Girls* (1946), Dialogue
- *Kathleen* (1941), Story
- *Lady Be Good* (1941), Screenplay
- *Babes in Arms* (1939), Screenplay — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/babes-in-arms.md)
- *Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever* (1939), Screenplay
- *The Hardys Ride High* (1939), Screenplay
- *Out West with the Hardys* (1938), Writer
- *Judge Hardy's Children* (1938), Screenplay
- *You're Only Young Once* (1937), Screenplay
- *A Family Affair* (1937), Writer

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