Jean Rouverol Dead: Blacklisted Screenwriter Was 100
Jean Rouverol, who played W.C. Fields’ daughter in It’s a Gift and then became a screenwriter who was blacklisted in Hollywood and driven with her husband to self-exile in Mexico, has died. She was 100.
Rouverol died Friday at the home of her caregiver in Wingdale, N.Y., Rick Lertzman, co-author of the 2015 book The Life and Times of Mickey Rooney, told The Hollywood Reporter.
In recent years, Rouverol had been living with actor Cliff Carpenter, who also had been blacklisted, in Pawling, N.
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