12 Facts About Paul Jarrico

Paul Jarrico was an American screenwriter and film producer who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses during the era of McCarthyism.

Paul Jarrico was born in Los Angeles, California on January 12,1915, as Israel Shapiro.

Paul Jarrico's father was a Russian Jewish immigrant, a lawyer, poet and socialist.

Paul Jarrico mostly wrote crime and comedy scripts for lower budget Hollywood films with Columbia Pictures.

Paul Jarrico had engaged in a protracted legal battle with Howard Hughes, the head of RKO.

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In 1950, while working on his newest script for the Howard Hughes film, The White Tower, a friend close to Paul Jarrico gave his name to the House Un-American Activities Committee.

In 1954, Jarrico went to New Mexico with Herbert J Biberman, a fellow blacklist filmmaker, where they created the film Salt of the Earth.

Paul Jarrico wrote scripts for television in Europe all throughout the 1960s.

In 1966 Paul Jarrico divorced Sylvia Gussin, his wife of 30 years, to marry a Frenchwoman, Yvette Le Floc'h, from whom he separated in 1977.

Paul Jarrico then returned to the United States where he met and, in 1992, married Lia Benedetti.

Paul Jarrico taught courses at the University of California at Santa Barbara and lectured on film theory and the blacklist in the US and Europe.

Paul Jarrico was returning home after attending events commemorating the beginnings of the blacklist fifty years earlier.