---
name: "Jean Rouverol"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jean-rouverol"
fi1m_id: "jean-rouverol"
imdb_id: "nm0746169"
tmdb_id: 99367
wikidata_id: "Q6171466"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "8 July 1916"
died: "24 March 2017"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 83
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-25T02:05:49.731253+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Jean Rouverol

## Identity

Jean Rouverol

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jean-rouverol
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jean-rouverol
- **IMDb ID:** nm0746169
- **TMDB ID:** 99367
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6171466
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Rouverol, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6171466, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0746169/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/99367

Actor. Born 8 July 1916 in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA. Died 24 March 2017.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 8 July 1916, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
- **Died:** 24 March 2017
- **Active:** 1934–1937
- **Also known as:** Jean Rouveral
- **Average Fi1m score:** 83, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Rouverol, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6171466, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0746169/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/99367

## Biography

Jean Rouverol was an American actress and screenwriter. Born in St Louis, Missouri, she made her screen debut playing Mildred Bissonette, the daughter of W.C. Fields, in the 1934 comedy *It's a Gift*. She appeared in supporting roles in a number of 1930s films, including *Private Worlds* (1935), *Stage Door* (1937) and *Bar 20 Rides Again* (1935), and performed on radio before moving into screenwriting.

In 1940 she married screenwriter Hugo Butler. The couple joined the American Communist Party and, after being subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee in the early 1950s, went into self-exile in Mexico with their children for thirteen years, writing scripts under fronts and pseudonyms. Rouverol later wrote for television series including *Guiding Light* and an episode of *Little House on the Prairie*, and published the memoir *Refugees from Hollywood: A Journal of the Blacklist Years* in 2000. She died in Wingdale, New York, in 2017.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, latimes.com, hollywoodreporter.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Stage Door* (1937), Fi1m 85, as Dizzy — [page](https://film.one/film/stage-door.md)
- *It's a Gift* (1934), Fi1m 81, as Mildred Bissonette — [page](https://film.one/film/its-a-gift.md)

## Complete filmography (19)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Little House on the Prairie* (1974), series, Writer
- *The Legend of Lylah Clare* (1968), Screenplay
- *A Face in the Rain* (1963), Writer
- *The Miracle* (1959), Screenplay
- *Autumn Leaves* (1956), Writer
- *The First Time* (1952), Screenplay, Story
- *So Young, So Bad* (1950), Story, Screenplay
- *Jack Pot* (1940), as Ruth
- *Western Jamboree* (1938), as Betty Haskell
- *The Law West of Tombstone* (1938), as Nitta Moseby
- *Annabel Takes a Tour* (1938), as Laura Hampton
- *Stage Door* (1937), as Dizzy — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/stage-door.md)
- *The Road Back* (1937), as Elsa
- *Fatal Lady* (1936), as Anita
- *The Leavenworth Case* (1936), as Eleanore Leavenworth
- *Bar 20 Rides Again* (1935), as Margaret Arnold
- *Private Worlds* (1935), as Carrie Flint
- *Mississippi* (1935), as Lucy’s School Friend (uncredited)
- *It's a Gift* (1934), as Mildred Bissonette — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/its-a-gift.md)

## Gallery

- ![Publicity photo of actress Jean Rouverol. (1943)](https://film.one/media/person/1230352/gallery-b625c142e455.jpg) Publicity photo of actress Jean Rouverol. (1943) — NBC Radio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Jean_rouverol_1943_NBC_photo.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Jean Rouverol](https://film.one/media/person/1230352/gallery-786d24eb7ac0.jpg) Jean Rouverol — unknown (Universal Pictures), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/Jean_Rouverol_in_The_Road_Back.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Jean Rouverol](https://film.one/media/person/1230352/gallery-b24676b32bf9.jpg) Jean Rouverol — Image via TMDB
- ![Jean Rouverol](https://film.one/media/person/1230352/gallery-5d2c37725935.jpg) Jean Rouverol — Image via TMDB

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