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Apr 1, 1997 · The movie industry’s two gorgons of gossip, buxom columnist Louella O. Parsons and her behatted counterpart, Hedda Hopper—the town’s most feared women and most notorious rivals—were sitting...
Apr 24, 2024 · 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.
Feb 2, 2016 · Louella Parsons began her career as a columnist for the Chicago Record Herald in 1914, and Hollywood legend had it that she scored her all-powerful syndication with William Randolph Hearst’s...
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Louella Parsons was a Hollywood gossip columnist who served as a personal link between millions of movie fans and the stars they went to see on the silver screen. She made her living ferreting out and publishing the secrets of Hollywood's rich and powerful, but ultimately fragile and easily manipulated, stars and moguls.
Although best known as the premiere Hollywood gossip columnist of the classical Hollywood studio era, Louella Parsons began her career in the film industry in 1911 when she was hired by the Chicago-based production company Essanay as its chief scenario editor.
Dec 8, 2005 · Dec. 8, 2005. The First Lady of Hollywood: A Biography of Louella Parsons by Samantha Barbas. The University of California Press, 2005; $29.95; 420 pages. FROM THE DUST JACKET: Hollywood...
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.
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