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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. Taffel is known for writing such films as Elopement.
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,...
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Personal life and death. 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.
Feb 9, 2015 · On Sept. 18, 1951, Taffel, above, appeared before a House Un-American Activities Committee in the Federal Building in downtown Los Angeles during hearings on Communists in Hollywood. She refused to state whether she was a member of the Communist Party and she was subsequently blacklisted.
Laslo Benedek's direction is commendable all the way."Death of a Salesman" is dismally depressing, but it must be acclaimed a film that whips you about in a whirlpool somewhere close to the...
She had worked in the Yiddish theatre before becoming a writer in Hollywood. Her widower died at the age of 100 on August 1, 2010. His career was apparently not impacted by his wife"s blacklisting. Needles and Pins (television series. 1 episode, 1974) "With Such Enemies".
