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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. Skolsky was a radio personality in ...
May 5, 1983 · Mr. Skolsky is survived by his wife, Estelle; two daughters, Nina Marsh and Steffi Sidney; and a sister, Jeanette Mitchell, all of Los Angeles; and a brother, Milton, of New York. A version of ...
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. Skolsky, who made Schwab's Drug Store synonymous...
May 5, 1983 · LOS ANGELES -- Broadway and Hollywood reporter Sidney Skolsky died at his home Tuesday after a long illness. He was 78. Skolsky's column, 'Tintypes,' appeared in newspapers for more than 50 years ...
Sidney Skolsky. Writer: The Eddie Cantor Story. 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
Nov 21, 1975 · Sidney Skolsky was a newspaper columnist who landed in Hollywood from New York in 1932 just in time to catch the huge wave the propelled the art of movie making to the top of its form. He was famous for writing his column from the booths of Schwab's drugstore (true) and for giving the Academy Award its "Oscar" nickname (dubious.)
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Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. "Sidney Skolsky" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1850 - 2020. https://digitalcollections ...
