[1] 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.
[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.