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Bess Taffel Boyle (December 10, 1913 – July 21, 2000) was an American screenwriter, whose career was effectively ended after she was identified as a member of the Communist Party during the McCarthy period.
Sep 4, 2000 · Bess Taffel, a screenwriter blacklisted in Hollywood after refusing to answer to the House Un-American Activities Committee, has died. Taffel died July 21 of a stroke at UCLA Medical Center,...
Boyle's wife, Bess Taffel, whose career began in the Yiddish theatre, was a Hollywood blacklistee, whose film career ended in 1951 after she was "named" by Leo Townsend, although her husband's career was apparently unharmed.
Bess Taffel Boyle was an American screenwriter, whose career was effectively ended after she was identified as a member of the Communist Party during the McCarthy period. Career. She wrote only a few television scripts from 1969 to 1974, before she ended her career entirely.
Aug 4, 2010 · After the war, they resumed their collaboration and he married Bess Taffel, a contract writer at RKO who was blacklisted during the McCarthy era. She died in 2000.
Aug 1, 2010 · Trivia. He created a realistic replica of Mount Rushmore for Hitchcock's "North by Northwest" from 1959. Family Life. He was married to screenwriter Bess Taffel until her death in 2000. Associated With. He received an honorary Academy Award at the age of 98.
Aug 3, 2010 · Boyle said Hitchcock even introduced him to the woman he’d later marry, scribe Bess Taffel.
