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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, her...
Feb 17, 2016 · Since 1976, only 13% of people sentenced to death have been executed. The majority have had their sentence overturned or remained on death row until they died naturally or by taking their own...
As of January 1, 2024, there were 2,241 death row inmates in the United States, including 49 women. The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise).
Nov 17, 2017 · This page is updated each business day by 12 pm Eastern Time. Please scroll over each state on the above map to see the number of active and inactive death warrants, as well as the number of executions. For information on all known warrants this year, see the Outcome of Death Warrants in 2024 page.
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. They lived in a house that Bob designed and built in The Hollywood Hills, for their entire marriage.
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She wrote only a few television scripts from 1969 to 1974, before she ended her career entirely. 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.
