Louise Rousseau
Louise Rousseau | |
|---|---|
| Born | Louise S. Rousseau July 22, 1910 Provincetown, Massachusetts, USA |
| Died | September 25, 1981 (aged 71) Ojai, California, USA |
| Education | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Occupation | Screenwriter |
| Spouse | John Belding (m. 1930) |
Louise Rousseau (1910-1981) was an American screenwriter known primarily for penning B Westerns in the 1940s.[1]
Biography
[edit]Louise was born in Provincetown, Massachusetts, to Louis Rousseau (a famous French tenor) and Frances Simkins (daughter of a prominent Texas lawyer).[2]
Her parents split up when she was a baby; her father returned to France, and she was sent to Texas to live with her aunts.[3] She later reconnected with her father in 1932.[2]
After graduating high school at age 15, she studied chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[4] After school, she became a secretary to the manager of the Rivoli Theatre in New York before moving on to Pathe, where she became the assistant of Frank Donovan.[5]
Early on in her Hollywood career, she worked as a director (one of very few women at the time) of newsreels at Pathe-RKO.[4] She later made a living writing low-budget Westerns — at least until she was called to testify before the House Unamerican Activities Committee in 1951.[6][7]
Selected filmography
[edit]- Air Hostess (1949)
- Mississippi Rhythm (1949)
- Prince of the Plains (1949)
- Under Colorado Skies (1947)
- Over the Santa Fe Trail (1947)
- Lone Star Moonlight (1946)[1][8]
- West of the Alamo (1946)
- Gunning for Vengeance (1946)
- Moon Over Montana (1946)
- The Lonesome Trail (1945)
- Fighting Bill Carson (1945)
- Riders of the Dawn (1945)
- Rhythm Round-Up (1945)
- Rockin' in the Rockies (1945)
- Swing Hostess (1944)
- Fuzzy Settles Down (1944)[9]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series. 1947.
- ^ a b "Meets Father for First Time". The Post-Crescent. 28 Mar 1932. Retrieved 2019-10-07.
- ^ Kahn, Alexander (4 Nov 1940). "Hollywood Film Shop". The Montana Standard. Retrieved 2019-10-07.
- ^ a b "Nothing Tops Experience, Declares Youngest Woman Screen Director". Wilkes-Barre Times Leader. 7 Dec 1940. Retrieved 2019-10-07.
- ^ "29 Dec 1940, 8 - Quad-City Times at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2019-10-07.
- ^ "Social Significance Seen in Horse Operas". Newspapers.com. 22 Sep 1951. Retrieved 2019-10-07.
- ^ "Actress Mum". The San Francisco Examiner. 22 Sep 1951. Retrieved 2019-10-07.
- ^ Institute, American Film (1999). The American Film Institute catalog of motion pictures produced in the United States. F4,1. Feature films, 1941 - 1950, film entries, A - L. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520215214.
- ^ Pitts, Michael R. (2012-11-28). Western Movies: A Guide to 5,105 Feature Films, 2d ed. McFarland. ISBN 9780786463725.
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