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Sidney Skolsky (May 2, 1905 [citation needed] – May 3, 1983) was an American writer best known as a Hollywood gossip columnist. He ranked with Hedda Hopper (with whom he shared a birthday) and Louella Parsons as the premier Hollywood gossip columnists of the first three decades of the sound picture era.
May 5, 1983 · Sidney Skolsky, the Broadway and Hollywood reporter whose column of vignettes called ''Tintypes'' appeared in New York and national newspapers for more than 50 years, died after a long illness...
The famous columnist Sidney Skolsky, who perhaps has the best claim to having invented the term "Oscar" for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Award of Merit (the official name of the Academy Award, which bore the inscription "First Award for Merit" up until the 1950s), was born in New York City in 1903.
- May 2, 1905
- May 3, 1983
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Sidney Skolsky. Hollywood Columnist. When longtime Hollywood columnist Sidney Skolsky died on May 3, 1983, Daily Variety ran a feature obituary on its front page -- a rare homage by that publication -- to honor the man who had been a respected entertainment reporter for over 50 years.
- Margaret Herrick
- Sidney Skolsky
- Bette Davis
- Eleanore Lilleberg
The most famous and widely accepted origin story for the name Oscar is credited to Margaret Herrick, the Academy’s first librarian. The story goesthat Herrick saw one of the awards sitting on an executive’s desk and remarked, “He reminds me of my Uncle Oscar.” The Oscar in question was Oscar Pierce, a Texas fruit and wheat grower, and although she ...
Famous Hollywood columnist Sidney Skolsky claimed he came up with the nickname while writing about the 6th Academy Awards in 1934. He claimed he was tired of constantly having to write “gold statuette,” finding the latter word both pretentious and difficult to spell. “The snobbery of that particular Academy Award annoyed me,” Skolsky wrote in his b...
One of the more prevalent and colorful theories is that Oscar was named by Bette Davis, one of Hollywood’s most legendary actors. Known for her roles in such films as Now, Voyager (1942) and All About Eve(1950), Davis also became the first female president of the Academy in 1941. Davis won her first of two Academy Awards for Best Actress in 1936 fo...
The most recently offered theory behind Oscar’s naming came from former Academy Executive Director Bruce Davis. While researching for his book The Academy and the Award, Davis claims he found proof that the term originated with Eleanore Lilleberg, an Academy secretary when the award was first introduced. Lilleberg had been in charge of handling the...
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May 7, 1983 at 1:00 a.m. EDT. LOS ANGELES -- Sidney Skolsky, 78, a Broadway and Hollywood reporter whose column, "Tintypes," appeared in newspapers for more than 50 years, died at his home...
Sidney Skolsky is known as an Actor, Producer, Story, and Screenplay. Some of his work includes Sunset Boulevard, Tom, Dick and Harry, Hallelujah, I'm a Bum, The Sport Parade, Hi, Nellie!, The Corpse Came C.O.D., Legends, and Tonight Starring Jack Paar.
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