Hugo Butler papers 1937-1971
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Butler, Hugo, 1914-1968
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Hugo Butler wrote screenplays for "Huckleberry Finn" (1939), "Lassie Come Home" (1943), and "Robinson Crusoe" (1954). He was nominated for an Academy Award for "Edison the Man" (1940). In 1951 Butler moved to Mexico as a result of blacklisting in Hollywood. In Mexico he worked with film director Luis Buñuel. He also lived in Italy while working on the Italian film "The Last Days of Sodom and Gomorrah". Butler and his wife, Jean Rouverol, were working on the screenplay of "The Legend of Lilah Cl...
Rouverol, Jean
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Jean Rouverol was a screenwriter for many television serial dramas, including “As the World Turns”, “Guiding Light”, “and Search for Tomorrow”. Her early career was disrupted when she and her husband, writer Hugo Butler, were blacklisted in the 1950s. The couple moved to Mexico but returned to the United States in 1964. Rouverol became a regular staff writer for “Bright Promise” in 1970 and was later hired as co-head writer for “Guiding Light”. From the guide to the Jean...
