Jean Rouverol (July 8, 1916 – March 24, 2017) was an American actress, screenwriter and author who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios in the 1950s.

During a break from studying at Stanford, she appeared in Max Reinhardt's A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Hollywood Bowl alongside Mickey Rooney as Puck.

[1] 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 tried her hand at fiction, completing a novella which she sold to McCall's magazine in 1945.

[7] By 1950, Rouverol had her first screenplay, So Young So Bad, made into a film, but her career was interrupted as a result of the investigations by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) into Communist influence in Hollywood.

[8] When the HUAC attempted to subpoena them in 1951, the Butlers chose exile in Mexico with their four small children rather than face a possible prison sentence as was endured by colleagues in the Hollywood Ten.

Preminger did this by arranging for friends in the Writers Guild of America to act as "fronts", i.e., to put their names on the scripts in place of Rouverol and Butler.