Selena
Royle was a long time stock player in Hollywood, whose career began
in 1923. The FBI identified her as a “concealed communist,” which the Bureau
defined as “one who does not hold himself out as a Communist and would deny
membership in the Party.”
According to their confidential informants, Royle was
a supporter of the Communist Party. Royle was called before the HUAC in 1951
and refused to testify. She then sued the American Legion for distributing a
page from Red Channels which called her a communist. In 1956, she retired to
Mexico, at age 52, when fewer and fewer roles were offered to her based on her
age, although she denied that as reason and insisted she was offered fewer and
fewer roles due to her left-leaning politics.
1950
The Damned Don't Cry
The Big Hangover
Branded
The Web (TV Series)
1951
He Ran All the Way
Come Fill the Cup
1952
I Lift Up My Lamp
1952 Gruen Guild Theater (TV Series)
1953
Robot Monster
Crown Theatre with Gloria Swanson (TV Series)
- The House and - Gold
from the Sea
1954
The Good Samaritan
1955
Murder Is My Beat
1956
Ethel Barrymore Theater (TV Series)
- The Daughters of Mars (1956)
As the World Turns (TV Series)
Grace Baker #1 (1956-1959)
Author. Book:
"Pheasants for Peasants."