Background
Florence Ryerson was born in Glendale, California. She was the daughter of Charles Dwight Willard and Mary McGregor.
Florence Ryerson was born in Glendale, California. She was the daughter of Charles Dwight Willard and Mary McGregor.
Florence was also a stage actress and wrote short stories for magazines. She renamed the estate for the amount of shade provided by the numerous large Blue Gum (Eucalyptus globulus) eucalyptus trees, originally planted in the 1860s during the Workman era. They restored and expanded the historic adobe and redwood ranch house, and lived there through the 1940s.
Ryerson co-wrote the "The Wizard of Oz" screenplay while living there.
Ryerson wrote plays and mystery novels with husband Colin Clements. Foreign Broadway in the 1940s they wrote Glamour Preferred, Harriet, and Strange Bedfellows.
In Harriet, Helen Hayes was Harriet Beecher Stowe. Colin Clements died in 1948.
Ryerson retired to Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, in 1951, where she continued to write plays, some for the local high school.
Florence Ryerson Clements died in Mexico City of cardiac insufficiency in 1965.