Jean Rouverol

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Jean Rouverol Butler (born July 8, 1916 in St. Louis , Missouri - † March 24, 2017 in Wingdale , Dutchess County , New York ) was an American actress and screenwriter .

life and career

Jean Rouverol was born in 1916 as the daughter of the playwright Aurania Rouverol (1885–1956), who became the inventor of the Andy Hardy Family through her play Skiddings . At the age of 16 she played in Broadway -Stück Growing Paints , one year later, she stood as a teenage daughter of WC Fields in the comedy classic It's a Gift (1934) for the first time on camera. In the following years she played in other films, in which she mostly took on supporting roles, but occasionally also female leading roles. In 1937 she had a supporting role in the successful comedy Stage Entrance alongside Katharine Hepburn , Ginger Rogers and Adolphe Menjou . Rouverol ended her film career at the age of just 24 when she married the screenwriter Hugo Butler in 1940 . In the following years she had four children, but at the same time took on a role in the long-running radio series One Man's Family . Like her husband, Rouvenol became a screenwriter, and she wrote her first work in 1950 for the film So Young and So Corrupted with Paul Henreid and Rita Moreno .

On the advice of their friend Waldo Salt , Butler and Rouverol joined the Communist Party of the USA in 1943 , when the Soviet Union was allied with the United States during the Second World War . Although they had left the Communist Party again in the late 1940s, this was the couple's undoing in the McCarthy era . Fearing arrest, they emigrated with their four children to Mexico , where Butler worked with Luis Buñuel . In the United States, the couple was temporarily on the blacklist. Nevertheless, in 1956 Rouverol was able to write the screenplay for Robert Aldrich's film Autumn Storms with Joan Crawford without being noticed. In the following years she wrote several film scripts, for example for The Madonna with Two Faces (1959) with Carroll Baker and Big Lie Lylah Clare (1968) with Kim Novak . From the 1970s she worked on the scripts for various television series. She received a Writers Guild of America Award for her work on the soap opera Springfield Story .

After the death of her husband Hugo Butler in 1964, Rouverol did not remarry; in old age, however, she lived with the actor Cliff Carpenter (1915-2014). She served on the board of directors of the Writers Guild of America for four terms . In 2000, Rouverol published the autobiographical book Refugees from Hollywood: A Journal of the Blacklist Year , which is about the difficult situation of her family during the McCarthy era. In 2009 she starred in the short film Finding Jean Lewis for the first time in 69 years in a film.

Filmography

As an actress

  • 1934: It's a Gift (It's a poison)
  • 1935: Senior physician Dr. Monet (Private Worlds)
  • 1935: A Quaker on the Mississippi (Mississippi)
  • 1935: Bar 20 Rides Again
  • 1936: The Leavenworth Case
  • 1937: Fatal Lady
  • 1937: The Road Back
  • 1937: Stage Door (Stage Door)
  • 1938: Annabel takes a tour
  • 1938: The Law West of Tombstone
  • 1938: Western Jamboree
  • 1940: Jack Pot (short film)
  • 2009: Finding Jean Lewis (short film)

As a screenwriter

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mike Barnes: Jean Rouverol, Blacklisted Screenwriter, Dies at 100. In: The Hollywood Reporter . Prometheus Global Media , March 25, 2017, accessed on March 25, 2017 . Jean Rouverol butler obituary. In: Legacy.com. March 25, 2017, accessed March 25, 2017 .
  2. ^ Aurania Rouverol in the Internet Movie Database . Retrieved March 25, 2017 (English).
  3. ↑ Jean Rouverol in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
  4. ↑ Jean Rouverol. In: Spartacus Educational. Retrieved March 25, 2017 (English).
  5. ^ Blacklisted: Portraits of 7 Writers and Actors Who Defied Hollywood - Cliff Carpenter. In: The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved March 25, 2017 (English).
  6. ^ Cliff Carpenter in the Internet Movie Database . Retrieved March 25, 2017 (English).
  7. ^ Blacklisted: Portraits of 7 Writers and Actors Who Defied Hollywood - Cliff Carpenter and Jean Rouverol . In: The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved March 25, 2017 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Rouverol, Jean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rouverol Butler, Jean (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actress and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Louis , Missouri , United States
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 2017
Place of death Wingdale , Dutchess County , New York , United States