Jean Holloway
Jean Holloway | |
|---|---|
| Born | Gratia Jean Casey April 16, 1917 San Francisco, California, USA |
| Died | November 11, 1989 (aged 72) Santa Monica, California, USA |
| Education | San Jose State University |
| Occupation | Screenwriter |
| Spouse | Dan Tobin |
Jean Holloway (born Gratia Jean Casey) was an American film, radio, and television writer who worked in Hollywood from the 1940s through the 1970s.
Biography
Jean was born in San Francisco, California, to Arthur Casey—an official with the U.S. Department of Justice—and Gratia Holloway.[1] Her parents divorced when she was young.
While attending San Jose State University, she went to New York on vacation and was offered work on The Kate Smith Show, a popular radio program. She was just 17 at the time, and she never returned to college.[2]
She later wrote for popular programs like The Hallmark Radio Hall of Fame, Mr. President, and The Railroad Hour before moving into writing for film. Holloway's first screenwriting credit was on the 1946 MGM film While the Clouds Roll By. Though she wrote three incredibly popular musicals for the studio, she was frustrated by MGM's unwillingness to let her write dramas, so she moved primarily into writing for television in the 1950s.[3] She was on staff at The Ghost & Mrs. Muir in the late 1960s.
Holloway was married to character actor Dan Tobin, who she met while working on the daytime soap opera The First 100 Years.[3]
Selected filmography
- The Magic of Lassie (1978)
- Once Upon a Brothers Grimm (1977) (TV movie)
- Huckleberry Finn (1975) (TV movie)
- The Honorable Sam Houston (1975) (TV movie)
- The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (1968–1970) (TV series)
- Madame X (1966)
- Catch Me If You Can (1959)
- El Coyote (1957) (TV movie)
- A Woman for the Ages (1952) (TV movie)
- Juliette Low and the Girl Scouts (1952) (TV movie)
- Mistress of the White House (1952) (TV movie)
- Florence Nightingale (1952) (TV movie)
- The Big Build Up (1952) (TV movie)
- Words and Music (1948)
- Summer Holiday (1948)
- Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)
References
- ^ "Weds After Official Trip". San Francisco Chronicle. 4 Jun 1916. Retrieved 2020-01-15.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "She Writes Fine Scripts, Yearns to Act Them Out". The Los Angeles Times. 9 Jun 1961. Retrieved 2020-01-15.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b "Radio, Television Writer Jean Holloway Tobin Dies". Los Angeles Times. 1989-11-16. Retrieved 2020-01-15.
