Jean Muir

Jean Muir (February 13, 1911 – July 23, 1996) was an American stage and film actress. Born in Suffern, New York as Jean Muir Fullarton, she first appeared on Broadway in 1930, and was signed by Warner Brothers Studios three years later. She played opposite several famous actors - Warren William, Paul Muni, Richard Barthelmess, Franchot Tone, etc. But she returned to Broadway in 1937 because she was unsatisfied with the roles, appearing occasionally in films through 1943. In 1950 she was named as a Communist sympathizer by the notorious book Red Channels, and immediately removed from the cast of a television sitcomThe Aldrich Family, in which she was supposed to appear as the Mother Aldrich. In the mid 1950s she reportedly suffered from...