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Louella Rose Oettinger, (August 6, 1881 – December 9, 1972) known professionally as Louella Parsons, was an American gossip columnist and a screenwriter. At her peak, her columns were read by 20 million people in 700 newspapers worldwide. She was the first writer of a dedicated column on motion pictures in the United States, writing one in ...
Feb 9, 2021 · In 1965, Parsons hung up her poison pen and moved into a Santa Monica clinic, at the Hearst corporation’s expense. Hopper died two months after Parsons’ retirement from double pneumonia. Parsons would hang on till 1972, a mute recluse who had detached from the world. Parsons has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for radio and movies.
Jun 9, 2021 · Basically, Louella Parsons was extremely powerful up until the late 1930s because she was the only gossip columnist who was anything like as powerful as she was.
Feb 2, 2016 · The Los Angeles Herald-Examiner faced a staff strike in 1967, two years after Louella’s deteriorating condition forced her to retire—she lingered in a Santa Monica rest home until her death in ...
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Louella Parsons (born Aug. 6, 1881?, Freeport, Ill., U.S.—died Dec. 9, 1972, Santa Monica, Calif.) was an American newspaper writer, the first—and, for many years, most powerful—movie columnist in the United States. Parsons obtained her first newspaper job—drama editor for the Dixon (Illinois) Morning Star —while still in high school.
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Jul 24, 2015 · Hedda was a former chorus girl with, reputedly, the best legs in New York. Louella had legs like tree trunks. Both women swore like mule skinners. In 1928 Parsons began hosting her own weekly radio program interviewing movie stars. On Hollywood Hotel stars would act out scenes from their upcoming movies.
Small Town Drama Editor and Teenage Wife. Louella Parsons was born Louella Oettinger in Freeport, Illinois, most probably on August 6, 1881. The birth date needs to be qualified, as Parsons would later steadfastly claim she was born in 1893. In her 1943 book The Gay Illiterate Parsons gives August 6 as the date of her birth but glaringly ...
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