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Harriet Oettinger Parsons was born in 1906 in Burlington, Iowa, [1] the daughter of Louella Parsons and Harry Martin. [2] She appeared as "Baby Parsons" in several movies, which included The Magic Wand (1912), written by her mother. [3] Harriet attended Wellesley College, graduating in 1928. [2] [4]
In 1928, Louella and her daughter Harriet established the Hollywood Women’s Press Club, an informal forum for female reporters and fan magazine writers to exchange ideas and gossip over lunch at the Brown Derby (Barbas 2005, 124–5). Like Louella, Harriet Parsons was a shrewd professional who combated the prejudices of her contemporaries in ...
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Louella Parsons. 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 ...
Jan 4, 1983 · Harriet Parsons, one of the first women film producers and the daughter of the Hollywood columnist Louella Parsons, died Sunday at St. John's Hospital after a two-year battle with cancer. She was ...
Harriet Parsons. Producer: Clash by Night. Harriet Parsons was born on 23 August 1906 in Burlington, Iowa, USA. She was a producer and director, known for Clash by Night (1952), Susan Slept Here (1954) and The Enchanted Cottage (1945).
- August 23, 1906
- January 2, 1983
Parsons, Harriet (1906–1983)American producer. Born in Burlington, Iowa, on August 23, 1906; only child of Louella Parsons (a Hollywood gossip columnist) and John Dement Parsons (a real-estate salesman); graduated from Horace Mann School for Girls, New York, 1924; Wellesley College, B.A., 1928; married King Kennedy (a writer and publicist), on September 28, 1939 (divorced Ap Source for ...
Harriet Parsons. Producer: Clash by Night. Harriet Parsons was born on 23 August 1906 in Burlington, Iowa, USA. She was a producer and director, known for Clash by Night (1952), Susan Slept Here (1954) and The Enchanted Cottage (1945).
