Jean Muir

Biography

Jean Muir was a pioneering American actress and educator born Jean Muir Fullarton on February 13, 1911. Her career spanned the stage and film, with notable roles in "The Constant Nymph" (1943) and Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1935). Notably, she became the first performer to be blacklisted in 1950 after her name appeared in the anti-Communist pamphlet Red Channels. In later years, Muir taught drama at a college.