Jean Rouverol (July 8, 1916 â€" March 24, 2017) was an American
author, actress and screenwriter who was blacklisted by the Hollywood
movie studios in the 1950s.Rouverol was born in St. Louis, Missouri,
the daughter of playwright Aurania Rouverol (1886â€"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.[citation needed]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
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