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Jean Rouverol is a Actor and Scriptwriter American born on 8 july 1916 at St. Louis (USA)

Jean Rouverol

Jean Rouverol
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Nationality USA
Birth 8 july 1916 at St. Louis (USA)
Death 24 march 2017 (at 100 years)
Awards Writers Guild of America Award

Jean Rouverol (born July 8, 1916) is an American author, actress and screenwriter who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios in the 1950s.

Biography

She was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of playwright Aurania Rouverol, (1886–1955), who created Andy Hardy and wrote many of the films in the MGM series. After being spotted in a high school production, Rouverol first acted in a Hollywood motion picture at the age of seventeen, appearing as W. C. Fields' daughter in the comedy It's a Gift (1934). She continued to perform mainly in supporting roles, making another eleven films until 1940 when she married screenwriter Hugo Butler.

With four children coming in quick order, Rouverol did not return to film acting but throughout the 1940s performed on radio, including playing Betty Carter on One Man's Family. While her husband was away serving in the U.S. military during World War II, she wrote her first novella, which she sold to McCall's magazine in 1945. By 1950, she had her first screenplay made into a film, but her career was interrupted as a result of the investigations by the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) into Communist influence in Hollywood.

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Filmography of Jean Rouverol (17 films)

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Actress

Annabel Takes a Tour, 1h7
Directed by Lew Landers
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Jack Oakie, Lucille Ball, Ruth Donnelly, Ralph Forbes, Bradley Page, Donald MacBride
Roles Laura Hampton
Rating56% 2.8078452.8078452.8078452.8078452.807845
This script must be run from the command line
Western Jamboree, 54minutes
Directed by Ralph Staub
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Musical, Romance, Western
Actors Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Jean Rouverol, Esther Muir, Frank Darien, Harry Holman
Roles Betty Haskell
Rating59% 2.958792.958792.958792.958792.95879
Ranch foreman Gene Autry (Gene Autry), his sidekick Frog Milhouse (Smiley Burnette), and the rest of the men at the Circle J ranch are anxious about the new owner, Van Fleet, who recently purchased the property. While awaiting his arrival, they learn that outlaws are searching for a helium gas floe on the property—gas they can sell to foreign powers for use in dirigibles, which are banned by the United States government. After one of the ranch hands is attacked, Gene and Frog go after the outlaws. At an abandoned house near the trail they find old Dad Haskell (Frank Darien), who tells Gene that his daughter Betty (Jean Rouverol) believes that he is the owner of the Circle J and is due to arrive from the east. Gene agrees to help maintain his charade and turns the Circle J into a dude ranch until the real owner arrives.
The Law West of Tombstone
Directed by Glenn Tryon
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Harry Carey, Tim Holt, Evelyn Brent, Jean Rouverol, Clarence Kolb, Allan Lane
Roles Nitta Moseby
Rating56% 2.80952.80952.80952.80952.8095
A Judge Roy Bean figure dispenses justice in Arizona. He teams up with the Tonto Kid to fight the McQuinn gang.
Stage Door
Stage Door (1937)
, 1h32
Directed by Gregory La Cava, James Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about television, Films based on plays
Actors Katharine Hepburn, Franklin Pangborn, Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, William Corson, Pierre Watkin
Roles Dizzy
Rating76% 3.844413.844413.844413.844413.84441
Terry Randall (Katharine Hepburn) moves into the Footlights Club, a theatrical rooming house in New York. Her polished manners and superior attitude make her no friends among the rest of the aspiring actresses living there, particularly her new roommate, flippant, cynical dancer Jean Maitland (Ginger Rogers). From Terry's expensive clothing and her photograph of her elderly grandfather, Jean assumes she has obtained the former from her sugar daddy, just as fellow resident Linda Shaw (Gail Patrick) has from her relationship with influential theatrical producer Anthony Powell (Adolphe Menjou). In truth however, Terry comes from a very wealthy, upper class, Midwest family. Over the strong objections of her father, Henry Sims (Samuel S. Hinds), she is determined to try to fulfill her dreams on her own. In the boarding house, Terry's only supporter is aging actress Catherine Luther (Constance Collier), who appoints herself Terry's mentor.
The Road Back, 1h37
Directed by James Whale
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Actors John King, Richard Cromwell, Slim Summerville, Maurice Murphy, Andy Devine, John Emery
Roles Elsa
Rating63% 3.193873.193873.193873.193873.19387
The despair and disillusionment of four men who return to civilian life in Germany after the First World War.
Fatal Lady
Fatal Lady (1936)

Directed by Edward Ludwig
Origin USA
Actors Walter Pidgeon, Mary Ellis, John Halliday, Ruth Donnelly, Samuel S. Hinds, Alan Mowbray
Roles Anita
Rating67% 3.379373.379373.379373.379373.37937
On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of a male acquaintance. Released, although thoroughly shaken-up, Marion attempts to perform but loses her voice onstage. Humiliated, but driven to sing, she travels to South America under the assumed name of Maria Delasano, and works in an opera company under the tutelage of Feodor Glinka, who wants her to shun men and save herself for her art. Mary resists the persistent attentions of wealthy young Phil Roberts, who follows the company in hopes of marrying her. ...
Mississippi, 1h20
Directed by Wesley Ruggles, A. Edward Sutherland
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Musical, Western
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Bing Crosby, W. C. Fields, Joan Bennett, Gail Patrick, Queenie Smith, Claude Gillingwater
Roles Schoolgirl
Rating65% 3.2940253.2940253.2940253.2940253.294025
Commodore Jackson (W. C. Fields) is the captain of a Mississippi showboat in the late nineteenth century. Tom Grayson (Bing Crosby) is engaged to be married and has been disgraced for refusing to fight a duel with Major Patterson (John Miljan).
Private Worlds, 1h24
Directed by Gregory La Cava
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry
Actors Claudette Colbert, Charles Boyer, Joel McCrea, Joan Bennett, Helen Vinson, Samuel S. Hinds
Roles Carrie Flint
Rating63% 3.1925153.1925153.1925153.1925153.192515
The film tells the story of problems in the lives of doctors and patients. A female doctor (Colbert) probes the twisted minds of her patients in a mental institution. The very caring psychiatrist and her colleague face discrimination by a conservative new supervisor.
It's a Gift, 1h8
Directed by Norman Z. McLeod
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors W. C. Fields, Kathleen Howard, Jean Rouverol, Tammany Young, Baby LeRoy, Morgan Wallace
Roles Mildred Bissonette
Rating70% 3.54433.54433.54433.54433.5443
After he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette ("pronounced biss-on-ay") decides to give up the grocery business, move to California and run an orange grove. Despite his family's objections and the news that the land he bought is worthless, Bissonette packs up and drives out to California with his nagging wife Amelia (Kathleen Howard), self-involved daughter Mildred (Jean Rouverol) and bothersome son Norman (Tommy Bupp). The information about the orange grove is confirmed: his barren plot contains only a tumbledown shack and a tumbleweed. Disgusted, his wife and family are walking out on him.

Scriptwriter

The Legend of Lylah Clare, 2h10
Directed by Robert Aldrich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about films, Films about religion, Films about television
Actors Peter Finch, Kim Novak, Ernest Borgnine, Michael Murphy, Milton Selzer, Valentina Cortese
Rating57% 2.8541252.8541252.8541252.8541252.854125
Elsa Brinkmann (Novak), is hired by producer Barney Sheean (Borgnine), who wishes to make a film about the life of 1930s movie star Lylah Clare (also Novak).
A Face in the Rain, 1h21
Directed by Irvin Kershner
Origin USA
Genres War
Themes Political films
Actors Rory Calhoun, Marina Berti, Niall MacGinnis
Roles Writer
Rating54% 2.7072052.7072052.7072052.7072052.707205
The Miracle, 2h1
Directed by Irving Rapper
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Films based on plays, Films about virginity
Actors Carroll Baker, Roger Moore, Walter Slezak, Vittorio Gassman, Katína Paxinoú, Gustavo Rojo
Rating59% 2.9549252.9549252.9549252.9549252.954925
Teresa (Carroll Baker), a postulant at the convent of Miraflores in Salamanca, Spain, is an orphan taken in by the sisters there. She enjoys the convent life, despite being a handful for her superiors. She sings worldly love songs to the other postulants and reads secular stories and plays such as Romeo and Juliet. Still, she has a lively devotion to Christ and to His Blessed Mother. A statue of the Madonna, in fact, is held in high regard by Teresa as she goes about her duties.
Autumn Leaves, 1h47
Directed by Robert Aldrich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about disabilities
Actors Joan Crawford, Cliff Robertson, Vera Miles, Lorne Greene, Shepperd Strudwick, Ruth Donnelly
Roles Writer
Rating67% 3.3992653.3992653.3992653.3992653.399265
Spinsterish Millicent "Millie" Wetherby (Joan Crawford) works at home as a self-employed typist. One evening in a diner, she meets a lonely Army veteran named Burt Hanson (Cliff Robertson). They share a romantic date at the beach, kissing amidst the crashing waves, but Millie tells Burt to date someone his own age. A month later, Burt is waiting for the still-lonely Millie at her home and the two celebrate his new job at a department store. He proposes to her in a movie theater, and while she initially rejects the proposal, she reconsiders when she sees him walking away.