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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Louella_ParsonsLouella Parsons - Wikipedia

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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 ...

2. www.lolaapp.com › louella-parsonsLouella Parsons: The Reign, Ruin, and Reinvention of ...

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   Oct 8, 2024 · By the 1950s, a new wave of gossip journalists emerged, and Parsons’ once-unshakeable grip on Hollywood began to weaken. A stroke in 1965 marked the end of her reign, forcing her into retirement. She died in 1972, leaving behind a legacy as complicated as the industry she chronicled.

3. filmstarfacts.com › 2015/07/24 › louella-parsons-aLOUELLA PARSONS – A law unto herself. - Historian Alan Royle

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   Jul 24, 2015 · Louella Parsons, the Hollywood mouthpiece for the Hearst empire of newspapers, became a most feared individual. Few stars crossed her, for to do so was tantamount to committing career suicide. Her bitter rival columnist was Hedda Hopper, another woman wielding unbridled power in the industry, but it was Louella who held sway, simply because she had the unlimited resources of William Randolph ...

4. www.vanityfair.com › hollywood › 2016The Powerful Rivalry of Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons

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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 ...

5. www.youtube.com › watchThe Gossip Queen Who Built Hollywood: Louella Parsons

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   Aug 31, 2024 · Louella Parsons was Hollywood’s original gossip queen, with a syndicated column that reached millions. As one of the first to wield the power of the pen in H...

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6. www.sandiegoreader.com › news › 2005The First Lady of Hollywood: A Biography of Louella Parsons

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   Dec 8, 2005 · Publish Date. 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 ...

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   How does Louella dispose of Parsons?

   • Louella’s official bio neatly disposes of Parsons by having him die on board a transport ship on the way home from World War I. Though he did die young, Parsons made his exit in a more commonplace fashion—he was screwing his secretary and Louella divorced him.

   The Powerful Rivalry of Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons

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   What happened to Louella Parsons?

   • They did not even need to be true. Louella Parsons, the Hollywood mouthpiece for the Hearst empire of newspapers, became a most feared individual. Few stars crossed her, for to do so was tantamount to committing career suicide.

   LOUELLA PARSONS – A law unto herself. - Historian Alan Royle

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   Who is Louella Parsons?

   • LOUELLA PARSONS – A law unto herself. When the studio system was at its peak in the thirties and forties, a ‘Gossip Columnist’ could wreck a career with just a couple of acid-laced lines. They did not even need to be true. Louella Parsons, the Hollywood mouthpiece for the Hearst empire of newspapers, became a most feared individual.

   LOUELLA PARSONS – A law unto herself. - Historian Alan Royle

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   What did Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper have in common?

   • [Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper] were an unlikely couple, but they had one thing in common—they loathed each other. ^ Collins, Amy Fine (April 1997). "The Powerful Rivalry of Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons". Vanity Fair. ^ a b c d e Leaming, Barbara (2001). Orson Welles, A Biography. New York: New York: Viking Press. ISBN 978-0-618-15446-3.

   Louella Parsons - Wikipedia

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   How did Dorothy Manners replace Louella?

   • Dorothy Manners took over the column and gradually substituted her byline for that of the great Louella. At 84, this living fossil of Hollywood’s golden age was installed in a Santa Monica rest home. There she was attended by a private nurse, paid for by the Hearst corporation.

   The Powerful Rivalry of Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons

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   What happened between Louella & Hedda?

   • Born four years apart and much earlier than either ever admitted (Hedda joked she was “one year younger than the age Louella claims to be”), the two women both escaped from dreary hick towns into seemingly advantageous marriages, merely to wind up single mothers struggling to support only children.

   The Powerful Rivalry of Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons

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8. www.screeningthepast.com › issue-20-reviews › the-first-ladyThe First Lady of Hollywood: A Biography of Louella Parsons

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   Barbas’s biography spans nearly a century as well. Barbas starts before Parsons’s birth with the courtship of her parents in the 1880s, covers Parsons’s years at Essanay, her columns in Chicago, New York and finally Los Angeles, and comes to a close after Parsons’s death in the media frenzies of the 1970s.