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Rorick was born in Toledo, Ohio in 1900.
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Her involvement in the local Junior League newsletter in the mid-1930s eventually led to her contributing fictional sketches to the national Junior League publication. lieutenant became one of the best selling books of 1941. lieutenant was also made into a movie in 1942, Are Husbands Necessary? starring Ray Milland and Betty Field as the Cugats.
Rorick published a follow-up collection of Cugat stories, Outside Eden, in November 1945.
In 1948, the radio show My Favorite Husband based on the Cugat stories debuted on Columbia Broadcasting System Radio. Lucille Ball and Richard Denning played the Cugats, though their last name was soon changed to Cooper to avoid confusion with bandleader Xavier Cugat.
Since Arnaz could not pull off the role of a midwestern banker, the show was reworked into what became I Love Lucy. Rorick"s husband, Ceilan H. Rorick, a banker in the Spitzer-Rorick Trust and Savings Bank of Toledo, died in June 1958.
Rorick died in 1967. They are buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Toledo.
The couple had two children, Horton and Elizabeth (Mimi).
