10 Facts About Ethel Borden

Ethel Borden Harriman was an American heiress, actress, and author who worked as a screenwriter at MGM and RKO during the 1930s.

Ethel Borden's father, J Borden Harriman, was a banker, and her mother, Florence "Daisy" Hurst, was a suffragist and diplomat who served as the Minister to Norway after her father's death.

Ethel Borden served with the Women's Ambulance Service in France during World War I, and afterward spent two years as an actress in a theatrical stock company.

Ethel Borden played Grace Torrence in a 1933 production of Design For Living and began writing screenplays after being encouraged to do so by playwright Noel Coward.

Ethel Borden published a comedic book, Romantic, I Call It, in 1926, and took on writing assignments in Hollywood at MGM, penning films like They Wanted to Marry and I Live My Life under the name Ethel Borden.

Ethel Borden continued to act in the 1930s, appearing in productions such as the Ziegfeld Follies.

Ethel Borden is credited by the Broadway Internet Database as translating Hedda Gabler in 1942, and writing Anne of England in 1941.

In 1918 Ethel Borden married stockbroker Henry Potter Russell in the American Cathedral in Paris on the Avenue de l'Alma.

Later in her life, Ethel Borden was in a long-term relationship with the British novelist Pamela Frankau.

Ethel Borden died of leukemia on July 4,1953, aged 55, in New York City.