Jean Holloway

Jean Holloway (born Gratia Jean Casey) was an American film, radio, and television writer who worked in Hollywood from the 1940s through the 1970s.

Jean Holloway
Born
Gratia Jean Casey

April 16, 1917
San Francisco, California, USA
DiedNovember 11, 1989 (aged 72)
Santa Monica, California, USA
EducationSan Jose State University
OccupationScreenwriter
Spouse(s)Dan Tobin

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

References
  1. "Weds After Official Trip". San Francisco Chronicle. 4 Jun 1916. Retrieved 2020-01-15.
  2. "She Writes Fine Scripts, Yearns to Act Them Out". The Los Angeles Times. 9 Jun 1961. Retrieved 2020-01-15.
  3. "Radio, Television Writer Jean Holloway Tobin Dies". Los Angeles Times. 1989-11-16. Retrieved 2020-01-15.
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