1. Jean Rouverol was an American actress, screenwriter and author who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios in the 1950s.
16 Facts About Jean Rouverol
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Jean Rouverol was pulled from the play to appear as W C Fields' daughter in the comedy It's a Gift, her first motion picture credit.
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Jean Rouverol continued to perform mainly in supporting roles, making another eleven films until 1940 when she married screenwriter Hugo Butler.
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In Mexico, Jean Rouverol wrote short stories and articles for American magazines to earn money.
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Jean Rouverol contributed scripts for the television soap opera Search for Tomorrow.
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Jean Rouverol died in January 1968, after they had co-written The Legend of Lylah Clare.
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In 1968, Jean Rouverol published her first book, Harriet Beecher Stowe: Woman Crusader.
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Jean Rouverol worked for over a year on the daytime drama Bright Promise.
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Jean Rouverol wrote a 1974 episode of Little House on the Prairie.
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Jean Rouverol was hired as co-head writer of the CBS soap opera Guiding Light for which she received a Daytime Emmy nomination and a Writers Guild of America Award.
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Jean Rouverol contributed two scripts to the soap opera As the World Turns.
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Jean Rouverol's book Writing for the Soaps was published in 1984.
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Jean Rouverol taught writing classes at the University of Southern California and at UCLA Extension.
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Jean Rouverol served four terms on the board of directors of the Writers Guild of America, and in 1987 she received the Guild's Morgan Cox Award as a member "whose vital ideas, continuing efforts and personal sacrifice" best exemplified the ideal of service to the Guild.
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In January 2001, Jean Rouverol published a memoir, Refugees from Hollywood: A Journal of the Blacklist Years, which told the story of her family's life in exile during the blacklist.
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Jean Rouverol died on March 24,2017, at the age of 100.